Weak Security WiFi on iPhone

Understood.

I had a long conversation with the Apple team and even if the diagnostic test showed that "everything was fine, no hardware problems" the phone still drops connectivity and it does it everywhere not only at home so i thought that might be the case. They will replace the device and will see if that fixes it.

I still have my 12Pro sealed because of this and this WIFI issues which is a common problem as far as i can see.

Thanks Lauren for the fast reply.

I have never discovered why I still get the message on my new Mac with Big Sur. Apple Support suggested a number of solutions that did not work and one that was too complicated for me to try. There is definitely an inconsistency between my iPhone and Mac.

Laurence: Yes, I did that several times and various other things suggested. If a weak security message is never false, how is it that the message appeared on my new iPhone and disappeared after I updated the router; but it remains on my new Mac with Big Sur whatever I do?

I have already updated my router and today I checked that my wifi extender has up-to-date security WPA2-PSK as recommended by Virgin Mediahttps://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Networking-and-WiFi/iOS-14-Weak-Security/td-p/4410050.

So, I have a new iPhone which shows no weak security message when it sits beside my new iMac which does show a weak security message. Both are using 5G wifi. These are conflicting messages.

If I switch my iPhone to 2G but leave it beside the iMac, the iPhone shows no weak security message. If I take the iPhone upstairs, it switches to 2G wifi and it shows a weak security message. In isolation, this might suggest the extender is using weak security but I have checked the settings and it is not.

This mystery is now beyond me and having invested a lot of hours trying to solve the problem, I am inclined to leave it and accept whatever risk there is. Virgin Media (in the link) says there is nothing to worry about.

Yes, forgetting the network was done when I updated the router settings some time ago under the guidance of Virgin Media. It worked for the iPhone but not the iMac.

I checked the wifi extender to see if the security was up-to-date and it was. I rebooted the extender after checking and the outcome is still as it was.

There is a clash of views between Virgin Media [my wifi provider] and Apple where 2 of its products give conflicting results. If both Apple products concurred, I would suspect the network but they do not; and the iPhone gives an all-clear inline with Virgin Media.

Make sure that the setting is WPA2(AES) for both the 2.6 GHz and 5 GHz bands. The settings are separate. It could be that the 2 devices are connecting at different speeds. And also verify that it is NOT WPA/WPA2(AES).

If you aren’t already you should assign different SSIDs to the two different bands (e.g., XYZZY-2 and XYZZY-5) so you are sure which you are connecting to.

Update the security settings on your router.

What that message means is that the network you're trying to connect to is not secure. You will need to update the router to more secure settings.

WPA2 with AES has *always* been my setting.

its a new router. What more does it want???

CakePrincess

Here are the available settings

Thanks for your continuing support.

I did list the available options in my reply to you timed at 9:09 am yesterday, but here’s a screenshot.

When I connect to the wifi it also tells me the wifi is ‘not trusted’ once it loads and prevents me accessing any network. MediaForce is the provider which is being blocked.