Can I restrict wi-fi auto-connecting to "preffered" networks only?

My iPhone is trying to be helpful, I realize, but I want it to stop auto-connecting to unsecured networks unless I've tagged them as "preferred". Is there any way to do that?
At home, there are some open networks that I suspect my iPhone is finding before finding mine, and so it connects to them and ignores mine. Naturally, I get better signal strength with my own wi-fi network, and I could very well have higher bandwidth too, but I have to manually tell my iPhone to use my own network every time I come home. This is annoying. Even telling my iPhone to "forget" the other networks doesn't help. It just finds them again the next day and connects to them (presumably because it finds them first).
Is there some wi-fi configuration setting that I'm missing that addresses this?

Your iPhone should not automatically connect to any wi-fi network unless you have previously connected your iPhone to the network.
I had dinner at a restaurant tonight for the first time that provides free wi-fi access. I had wi-fi on with my iPhone and my iPhone did not automatically connect to this free wi-fi network. I had to go to Settings > wi-fi and choose the network in order to connect to this network.
If I return to this restaurant tomorrow with wi-fi on with my iPhone, my iPhone will automatically connect to this network because I have successfully connected my iPhone to this wi-fi network.
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