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Is there a glitch with iphones that means they start droping wifi connections?

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Londonmummy66 · 03/01/2025 17:13

Posting here for traffic mainly but DD's phone started connecting to wifi and then immediately dropping the connection. Its not a problem with any other devices but it is a problem with all the (several) wifis she's tried since the problem started. A number of her friends have said they have had the problem too and that Apple stores have been really unhelpful basically refusing to see if they can help identify the problem and just telling them that they need to buy a new one. She had the same treatment today at Regent Street. Its not that old a model (a 12) and DH's older one works fine. Has anyone else had this? (She's googled all yesterday afternoon and tried every fix she cold find and nothing works.)

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Ginkypig · 04/01/2025 18:19

I get that sometimes but what is annoying me more is it drops to 2 bars of signal randomly which means pages won’t load!
I get temporary relief by turning in airplane mode and turning it off which refreshes it and then it jumps to 4-full bars!

iv had various iPhones always on the same network and lived in the same house and town for years and years and it’s never happened until I got this iPhone 😡 se2nd gen

Bigcheeserolling · 04/01/2025 18:18

I turn off mobile data at home a lot to stop this happening. Doesn’t seem to impact on my ability to stay online so I think the point at which my phone would otherwise decide the WI-FI signal is poorer than using data is set a bit too high.

YouveGotAFastCar · 04/01/2025 18:15

How strong is your WiFi signal?

if it’s when she’s got poor WiFi connectivity, and data is better, that’s the reason. It happens for me in my sons room as it’s the furthest from the router - it can see the network and connects but then flips back to 5G as it’s much faster.

Londonmummy66 · 04/01/2025 18:13

Thanks for the comments - she did google and tried a lot of different "fixes" but none worked.

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Lonelycrab · 03/01/2025 18:03

Mine did this for a bit, also iPhone 12
Particularly on getting home, would take an age to see the router, and drop out too from time to time. Seems to have sorted itself now somehow. Sorry that’s not a ton of help to you though Op.

Rocknrollstar · 03/01/2025 18:00

Never had this problem with an iPhone. Have you googled it? Maybe re-boot?

DandyTealSeal · 03/01/2025 17:32

My iPhone doesn’t stay connected to WiFi, I thought it was the WiFi but no other devices have the problem. Mines a 14 and it happened with the previous one.

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