Q: iPhone 4S WiFi Grey Out
Hey, so after a year of using my iPhone 4S my wifi on the device suddenly gave up on me. At first it started randomly disconnecting from the current wifi network that it was connected to. That would happen rarely maybe 1 to 3 times in a month, but after couple of months or so it would disconnect from the wifi network and lose the ability to find wifi networks. Meaning that it could not find any wifi networks until I restarted the device. This continued for quite sometime and was not much of a problem because it happened once in a while. Then one day it got disconnected from a wifi network and I restarted the device. After restarting it the wifi icon in the control panel greyed out. It still had the symbol of wifi in it thought and so I restarted the device again and it was fine. Now this happened quite regularly for a few days, until the icon completely turned grey. It became a dark grey circle with nothing inside. No matter how many times I restart the device the wifi will not turn. I tried to force restart the device but that did not work, also I even reset the whole network settings which did not work too. I erased the whole device from iTunes and that did not fix it too!!! This problem also started after I upgraded the phone to IOS 9.0. I have searched the web for different types of solutions but it either involves the iPhone being heated by a hairdryer or being kept in a refrigerator for 30 or more minutes. I don't think these are very good methods so please can anyone help me fix this problem!!!
PS: If a picture is needed I can provide you with that too
Thank You for reading this and for your help.
iPhone 4S, iOS 9.3.2
Posted on Jul 10, 2016 8:23 AM
Well I tried those steps and the Wifi still did not seem to work as I have the newest version of IOS. Thank you for your reply and I will set up an appointment at an Apple Store. Hopefully they will fix the problem.
Posted on Jul 10, 2016 8:50 PM