3G on iPhone 12

This hits the nail on the head

one bar of 4g = crap signal and dropouts.

was mildly irritating when i could lock 4g out now its an utter pita when im driving remote - ive kept my old phone and have that locked to 3g.

id suggest its a good enough reason to be able to return the phone as not fit for purpose.

oh btw you can fix it when standing under a 3g tower or using cel fi - simply place your $2000 phone inside a tin can!!!

Almeister "...But the phone dropping out when there's one bar of 4g signal but a full rack of 3g is apples problem..."

Despite what these people with 100K+ posts are saying, it is exactly what it is.

This is not a technology problem either. This is just not wanting to invest in a proper User Interface on Apple's part.

I didn't say developer anywhere in my post nor did I say you had to be one to open the field test menu. I just wanted to be able to compare your background with Lawrence Finch to see who I should believe.

I do not have any degree in anyway, but I know a lot about cellular technologies, I know all the frequencies of cellular carriers and how it works, I even know how to detect how many towers are nearby that my iphone can connect to. I understand which carrier files are correct under the field test menus on iPhone

I’ve got an old example from back in the day when we had MetroPCS, back in iOS 9 an iPhone 6s, when I had MetroPCS it allowed me to choose from LTE, 3G and 2G. but with T-Mobile, there’s only an option to disable LTE and use 4G/3G, but I’m not sure which carrier still allows the iPhone 12 to switch to 3G manually.

Jasons69 wrote:

In the uk, all the carriers allows auto switching to 3G but not manually.

Yes, they all allow the phone to switch automatically. That wasn't the question and mostly isn't the issue in this thread.

The original part of this post was about how Verizon is not offering 3G support for iPhone 12, and that’s true that with GSM carriers around Europe and everywhere around the world, it automatically switches to 3G, but 3G on EVDO is not supported with 5G Sim cards.

I don’t understand why people want to switch to 3G when there are more bars, more bars does not mean more coverage in speed, you are lucky if you have one bar of 4G/LTE, I also do not understand why people didn’t want to switch to edge back in 2012 when the iPhone 5 came out, back in the day, edge has more bars than 3G, and now we have this thread complaining about not getting 3G.

techguy171 wrote:

The original part of this post was about how Verizon is not offering 3G support for iPhone 12, and that’s true that with GSM carriers around Europe and everywhere around the world, it automatically switches to 3G, but 3G on EVDO is not supported with 5G Sim cards.

Except I believe they are. Just not manually.

Mate we get that the carrier chooses the option - thats not the issue.

the issue is that we have - for years - had to use that function to lock out 4g as when there is one bar of 4g our calls drop out constantly.

this oisnt something we should have to do - if you have lots of bars of 3g and 1 bar of 4g then the phone should automatically lock to 3g for calls

this is a no brainer.

in the UK, Giffgaff and talk mobile will be the only options at this time.

there are plenty of options here in the US such as boost mobile. But in the US, only the big wireless carriers offer 5G, and several other MVNO‘s, I looked through the Apple support articles and in the UK only two mobile carriers that do not offer 5G and the US has approximately 30 carriers that do not offer 5G

im having this issue too. No 3G option to select, when i travel to my 'Shack' 3G is the best option, 4G doesnt LOAD at all....so selecting 3G only would be great. Ive been in contact with my provider and they are saying its a Apple issue. :(

I see you didn’t bother to read any of the thread you posted to. Go back and read it; when you are finished we can discuss anything that isn’t clear to you.

It truly amazes me that people buy a phone sold specifically as a 5G phone, but don’t want to use it on 5G. That makes no sense at all.

I am sorry but I did not buy an iPhone 12 for 5G but for tons of other reasons. And there is French saying that says : who can do the most can do the least.

in other word if you do 5G. You can do 3G. If it helps thousands of people and it is a simple firmware fix, then Apple should do it, without us arguing about it. When you pay this much for a smarphone, a good service should follow. And as long as 3G exists in the world, Apple will have to continue offering such options...

my carrier again VIVACOM, carrier version

network provide version vivacom 46.0, how is possible my android flagship phone to have volte and also to be able to choose what network to be in so i can choose 3g/4g/5g ?

Apple never leave u choise i remember many years ago there were better lock screen sounds now u cant choose apple changed lock screen and lock screen sound and if u dont like it thats it u can turn it off .

5g in BG is non existing, i bought the phone since i like Apple, i own iphone since 2007 1st one,

i cant sale it unfortunately because its not my own property...

its a gift to me from my company but i am not allow to sale it.

Carriers in Bg cant disable 5g non existing 5g, they event cant disable 4g... so i am stuck with no choise.

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I cant sale my phone since its a gift from my company. So i am stuck without i-net or with very slow mobile i-net at least over wifi you dont have such limitation from apple yet. I actually have 2 phones from the company 1 android flagship and this one, with android i got better battery life and more control.

I spoke with all carriers today in BG none of them will turn 3G anytime soon

they even offer 2g network , bg is not usa dont compare it.

Right now i am using only 4g/lte since i dont have any 5g at all. but speed is terrible extremely slow and with cellphone i-net phone is unusable... unfortunately i-net never go to 3g again :(

even at 1 bar still uses 4g lte.

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