My iPhone 13 Pro will not connect to WiFi

Indeed; VPN is the root cause of many problems. I think it causes more problems than it solves.

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Please help me, the iPhone 13 pro has a network connection issues, it just stops browsing the internet and at first i had to restart my phone and it worked again. But now I’ve restarted my phone several time and it won’t browse the internet, it won’t even connect to WiFi 😢😢

I know what VPN is, don’t need to copy Wikipedia page here. I’m trying to say that I haven’t even used v on iPhone 13 the Hotspot vpn shield app just got copied with all other apps from my iPhone X backup.

and yes it’s an Apple problem, if they approve app to the AppStore that can brake your Wi-Fi without even using it

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I too am having this issue and have been since I got the iPhone 13 Pro in December. This has been the worst phone I have every had the displeasure of owning. I have never installed any VPN apps on any of my phone so "uninstall VPN" does nothing for me. But just to make sure, I went through every signal app I have downloaded on my phone to ensure there wasn't a hidden VPN. There wasn't. I also went to the VPN settings just in case and nothing is listed. Anytime my phone's screen turns off, it automatically disconnects from my WiFi even though the phone acts like I'm still connected (when I go to the settings it shows it's connected to WiFi) but I have to disconnect from the WiFi and reconnect to it to finally get anything to load. It's beyond annoying and the amount of "help" I have received from Apple has been abysmal.

A VPN is NOT a must, by any standards. And if you really want to use VPN, in spite of the fact that it breaks many apps and adds no meaningful protection, you can use it, but you must understand its limitations. Start by reading my post on this very page, 2 posts above yours.

Also, something to think about→Don't use VPN services. · GitHub

There are two legitimate purposes for using VPN:

• To allow access to a private network such as a school or business when you are not on site. 
• To allow access outside of a country with a repressive government that has restricted Internet access.

Any other use is risky, and can lead to problems like the one discussed in this thread. VPN disguises your location by making you appear to be somewhere else in the world. But you usually can’t control that “somewhere else”, and if it is in a location that an app isn’t approved for the app won’t work. Plus the fact that the provider of the VPN knows everything about you and your location, as well as what sites you access through the VPN. So you are totally dependent on the VPN provider’s honesty. As a start, if the VPN is free, DON’T USE IT. The provider has to make money somehow, and if you aren’t paying them then they are selling your private data to make money. But even those that charge can’t necessarily be trusted. For example, a few years ago Avast was caught selling user browsing data. They claim they have stopped doing so. 

You don’t really need VPN when using public Wi-Fi, because all communications between your iPhone and the servers it accesses are end-to-end encrypted.

With iOS 15.2 and later Apple now has iCloud+ Private Relay, which is like a super VPN, except that it doesn't spy on you→About iCloud Private Relay - Apple Support

Same issue. Brand new iPhone 13 pro. Well done Apple.

It’s so so so Apple. Brand new iPhone. And a piece of junk. Heavy junk at that.

Your instructions worked for me. Re-downloaded the VPN and signed in. So far so good. Thanks.

Get the Wi-Fi problem fixed. Or update using your computer.

I am really experiencing buyer’s remorse here because like you, this irritating situation has me gaslighting myself, then realizing I have submitted to an established mathematics journal with successful reviews, by informal checks for flaw, a completely novel, compact proof of the proposition that “There Exists a No Coherent Predication, Derivable From The D. Chalmers’ Query-Proposition that ‘There is No Number k≠0, Of Pairwise Incomparable Models, of The Phenomenological to Linguistically Mutually Intelligible, Full Faithful Functor. Admitting A Faithful and Surjective on Objects Funtorial Section Which Thus Form A Kan Extension To Category Equivalence in Finite Iterations. I don’t care it sounds smug- they shovel “I am some creatively socially special New Fangled artsy yet able to immediately flexibly shift to a style of analysis of computer program theory maybe 2 people at Apple understand, given it’s just one of those typical academic hyper specialized fields, so I can pretend the guy is BS - won’t look up on orchid ID or anything- just assume it’s flaw.”

I don’t like the dwindling compassion directed empathetic reflex these tech technicians seem to revel in the stench of.

I feel like every time I chat with these people They have some ego so big it automatically assumes and makes a embeddding of this rancid social style in every smug reply to the tactfully suggestive of solutions to said problem — of course being proprietary source I have no idea how to even conceptually grasp I am desperate enough to PRO BONO ABSURDUM spend likely 80 hours to even write a bridge code from categorical algebra (pure mathematics) to a received runtime like JS or Python whichever one it still won’t work. I have explained the answer and the person literally didn’t respond. Was it because as a trained knowledge source of the ability to prove things like the proof I have written in half a page that Certain Ivoluted Inverted Fixed Points Extensionally Present In UI….by the general Lawvere ZRC foundation, they will not be able to know the nature of the source code mal-syntax/semantic adjunction whatever level and level of convolution it presents as, if even unique to a definable degree! I hate it.