iPod Touch or iPhone forgetting your network? Here's a solution

If you are using a hidden network with your iPod Touch (and presumably iPhone), you may run into an issue where your device won't remember the network.  That might be acceptable if you didn't also have to select the security and type the username and password every time.  But unfortunately you have to do all those things.  Well, until now.  There is a simple work-around.

First, there's no need to turn off asking to join networks.
Make sure you can connect to the network by joining it as Other...
Go ahead and enter the network name, select security type, and enter username and password.
Make sure it connects.
Now lock your device until the network connection is severed.
Go back into your network settings.
If it is a hidden network, it won't appear in your list.
Fine, that's expected.
This time, just click Other... and then type the network name.
Skip changing the security type.
Just hit Join right away.
It will tell you it could not connect.
But nonetheless it will connect!
You should be okay to use it now.

To review, you will still have to type the network name each time, but nothing else.  This seems reasonable for a hidden network SSID.

Hopefully that will save some folks time and headaches.