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Danny_G109 Author

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Wifi Freezing iPhone

When I connect my iPhone to a wifi network the phone becomes unresponsive and slow. It happens anytime I get in range of a wifi network that I have previously used. Just walking passed a cafe that has a wifi network that I have previously used is enough to freeze the phone. The only way I can get the phone to work again is to swipe down and wait about 30 seconds, press to disable wifi, wait another few seconds for the phone to recognise this and once wifi has been disabled and disconnected from any network the phone works perfectly fine.

Any ideas?

iPhone XR

Posted on Jan 23, 2020 12:19 AM

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Posted on Jan 23, 2020 1:25 AM

In that case you could reset the network settings, to remove all saved Wi-Fi passwords on the phone.

After that you will have to fill in all needed passwords again, but you can control the Wi-Fi connectivity, using the Auto-join feature.

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Jan 23, 2020 1:25 AM in response to Danny_G109

In that case you could reset the network settings, to remove all saved Wi-Fi passwords on the phone.

After that you will have to fill in all needed passwords again, but you can control the Wi-Fi connectivity, using the Auto-join feature.

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Jan 23, 2020 1:00 AM in response to Danny_G109

If your device should not automatically join a Wi-Fi network, follow these steps:

Tap Settings > Wi-Fi.
Tap next to the network name.
Make sure that Auto-Join is off.

For those Wi-Fi networks you want to connect automatically, leave Auto-Join set to "On".

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Danny_G109 Author

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Jan 23, 2020 1:02 AM in response to Ingo2711

Thanks Ingo,

However the problem is not as a result of 1 particular wifi network. All wifi networks cause the problem.

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