How to setup preference over WiFi SSID

Hello,
At my house, my WiFi has several SSIDs (Ex: SSID A, SSID B, SSID C). However, my iPhone tends to always to connect to one of the SSID in the 2.4GHz range. Maybe it's because the SSID associated with the 5GHz network always come up slower. I'd like for my iPhone to always try the SSID associated with the 5GHz first and not sure how to do that. I don't want to turn off the other SSID though. Any ideas?
thanks....

Hi z777,
Your iPhone's system uses a particular set of criteria to decide which wireless network to join. You can find information about it in this article -
How iOS decides which wireless network to auto-join
Thanks for using Apple Support Communities.
Best,
Brett L

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