Does the iphone 12 support standalone 5G? I have been searching and searching for weeks to find the answer to this. I am using ios 16.0.2
If not, what iphone does support standalone 5G? the 13? The 14? And what version of ios?
Thank you
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I DID ask T-Mobile. They said the iphone 12 supports SA 5G (though my phone indicates it is not supporting it) and the Galaxy app is wrong (it does say it supports it, using the same band on the same tower).
T-Mobile indeed supports SA but it is not switched on everywhere yet.
Coming here was my attempt at getting another response. I have learned over the years that T-Mobile is extremely unreliable in answering questions.
The real question is what is your 5G performance? My iPhone T-Mobile 14 on 5G gets between 250 and 500 mbps download. I don’t care whether it is 5G standalone or anything else. What matters is how well it works.
Yes this is true for now. But as time goes on, SA will show more and more benefits as it becomes totally non reliant on the LTE backbone.
My iphone 12 gets anywhere between 250 and 900mbps depending on the time of day (due to different amounts of saturation). Yes this is very good but SA will not only get greater and more reliable connection distances but also some tests have indicated speeds up to 3gbps. That is amazingly fast. I am more interested in distances than speed tbh.
I've been reading articles talking about all this and it somewhat appears that T-Mobile may have actually given me the correct answer. From what I am gathering, the N41 band, which is the one that both my phones connect to at my home, is only using SA 5G in a small part of the country, basically for test purposes and SA 5G is more widely available right now on band 71 which I rarely connect to at all. So they may have been right on when they said the Cell Mapper app on my Galaxy S22 wrong.
How is the signal strength on the iphone 14? Have you noticed anything either better or worse than what you got before using this phone?
T-Mobile has almost 0 SA 5G on n41. Just a couple of cities. Your galaxy is lying it is not on standalone 5G on T-Mobile. The iPhone 12 supports standalone 5G. The only time you are likely to encounter SA 5G is when you are in an area that has only low band n71 5G. T-Mobile has a nationwide SA core operating on 600mhz n71 but your phone will not go into SA mode unless there is no other LTE signal and the phone is only able to receive n71. This is pretty much never. So yeah to sum it up in a couple of points. Your Samsung is lying, your iPhone 12 supports SA 5G, you are not likely to ever encounter SA 5G on T-Mobile at this time. Of course a couple of years from now this will change. VoNR aka voice over 5G is a huge challenge that carriers are still trying to solve at this time. You won’t likely see SA 5G for another year or two, as this would require VoNR which isn’t ready for prime time. Just read about dish networks issues with voice calling.
Here’s what I see at Settings > Cellular > Voice & Data. I have an iPhone 14 Pro running iOS 16.0.2 using AT&T.
Yes the iPhone 12 supports 5G.
The link was last updated in December 2021.
What is the point of all this?
Color me very surprised.
I never saw the toggle on my 12 Pro Max but as the article notes it does support it. There is no broken promise or any conspiracy here.
Call Apple support and ask.
Yes, your 12 supports it.
Yes of course. I do not use low power mode.
But field test mode indicates it is not working in SA 5G on the same exact tower and band that my Galaxy S22 does.
Field test mode is not a documented user facing feature of the iPhone.
jayfromcorona wrote:
No need to reply anymore.
I wasn't even replying to you then.
Yes I wasn't responding to you. I just wanted to make one last "generic" messages to all.
Thanks
Signal strength is much better that my XR was on LTE; I have full bars even indoors. I don’t use Wi-Fi anymore; my 5G connection is much faster than my cable Wi-Fi.
Does the iPhone 12 support standalone 5G?
