Poor signal with iPhone 12 Pro Max

Alright, thank you for the technical explanation here! Is there a way I could restrict my phone 12pro max to always use 3G or just 4G bands and not the 4G-LTE ones to avoid falling trap to this Band 28?

This was, at least I could test and see if the call drop does not happen on the 3G bandwidth.

For this price expected a bit more. The basic use of a phone is to make calls . This is more like an ipad now. One plus 9 pro is much superior phone than this . I might switch to one plus . One plus charging is super fast and better life is amazing.. the battery., signal reception, camera and accessibility all better in one plus. I made a mistake choosing this iphone🤦🏻‍♀️Never buying iphone again

Fair enough.

My 12 Pro Max is the best cell phone I've ever owned, it has not dropped a single call since I got it in November. Unlike past iPhones that dropped calls in some known areas, the 12 Pro Max has been absolutely perfect.

Buy what you want; Apple is not here, we're just Apple users so you can purchase whatever you like and it doesn't affect any of us.

Not here to convince anyone, neither of my telecom engineering nor of my work experience in the communications field. 🙂

Thank you for your valuable time and helpful suggestions! Your inputs made me realize that all the towers of all the CSPs around the world needs an update but iPhone12Pro Max that I own can never be at fault.

Thanks for the enlightenment!

Not one of the lucky ones; hundreds of my coworkers alone have no issue with theirs.

I've explained several times why you would see a different signal strength, and quite frankly almost zero AT&T customers see this, almost all of them are Verizon customers.

If you hate it that much, why not sell it on eBay for a nice price and then get something else?

Life is too short to be continuously frustrated by a product that doesn't work for you, even if it's Verizon's fault.

i don't think it's issue with Verizon . I don't live in USA. Iphone 12 pro max wifi signal reception is very bad. my phone works only in the room the wifi router is kept. When we leave that room, signal is lost. But even the old cheaper Android phones works very well even outside the house. This device drives me crazy. It works well only with high speed full signal internet. I have to sit next to the wifi router to use this phone

That's an issue with your WiFi router.

I have no issue using any WiFi router I choose in any location, and these routers are not "in the same room."

In fact at present I am a good 500 feet away from my access point with lots of intervening walls and my 12 Pro Max does just fine.

These allegations are completely untrue.

Millions of users have no such issues, and if the phone couldn’t handle switching towers you wouldn’t be able to hold a call for more than two miles or so.

The only way to address this issue is for your cellular carrier to fix their network.

It doesn't necessarily matter if they share towers, the question is do they use the same Base Station Controllers and other hardware.

If Wi-Fi calling doesn't work for you, that's 100% an issue with your cellular carrier. Apple has absolutely nothing to do with Wi-Fi calling, that all occurs over your carrier's data network.

Went to the boat races yesterday. Cell service was very limited in the area but everyone could send and receive texts—except me! No service and I was the only one with an iPhone 12. Sucks! Looks like my new SIM card isn’t fixing the problem.

My husband and I have the same sim provider, with same plan. But his Android doesn’t have any issue with wifi connection or calls . But on my iPhone signal reception is bad. Please don’t tell it’s the problem with my sim. We tried switching the sims. And found out it’s the issue with this dumb phone

Most of the other folks have the same carrier as me. This phone is a dud and I hate it! I am not rich, so for now I am stuck with it. It may be issues with the carrier, BUT Apple should not have sold phones that are not compatible with a major carrier!

It’s would like selling a microwave oven that only heats food half the time. You would then expect a product recall or the manufacturer to make it right with replacement or money refunded. You would not expect them to blame it on your power source (after thousands on people complained of similar issues) or the type of food you were cooking. Most companies would make it right for the consumer.

Wi-Fi calling is an interface to your carrier done over the Internet using Wi-Fi and has nothing to do with their cellular network or towers. It’s like making a FaceTime audio call that gets routed over your carrier’s Internet servers instead of Apple’s.

So your conclusion that is is the phone rather than the carrier cannot in any way be proven or even asserted by your use of Wi-Fi Calling.

No, it’s like you bought a radio to pick up a station you saw a TV ad for that played your favorite songs, but the radio station isn’t actually broadcasting a signal and you blame the manufacturer of the radio.

If all my friends had cheaper radios that were getting that radio station, I would know that it was my radio—not the station and I would get rid of it and get a different radio. If the radio manufacturer would not take the radio back, I would feel ripped off.