iPhone 14 Pro Signal Issues

This may be a silly question but, do you have both lines with the same service provider, same service plan and the phones together in the same room? Any difference in these factors can affect your signal level.

@Dog cow-Mof The problem with your perspective is that a mobile artefact does not exist in an isolated bubble, rather it is part of a digital ecosystem. It’s not up to the environment to reconfigure itself to adapt, but rather, the artefact itself must be able to function in the environment with which it is deployed. Telling us to go and talk to our Telcos and asking them to reconfigure their systems so this particular handset works is not practical. Every other handset manages ok. I just got a new Samsung and it works perfectly. This would indeed seem to be an Apple problem.

Not an Apple issue.

The carriers must properly configure their towers.

It's not for a "particular handset" - similar complaints can be found on the Internet from users of other brand phones that also use the new frequency ranges.

Dwencil wrote:

So Dogcow, you are suggesting we all have T-Mobile? That’s what I have and my phone has issues.

Nope - unfortunately, all carriers do this.

Similar issues have been reported by AT&T and Verizon users and also users overseas.

Like many times before, this is a device issue that will require a workaround through apple software “updates”. Those who are insisting it is a carrier tower issue only, are obfuscating the problem. I have been working the last two weeks with tmobile tech support engineers testing both the new iphone 14 and the samsung s23, with the same carrier, same tower connection and at the same residence location. The iphone 14 suffers from signal degradation far more than the samsung s23. If you reside near the edge of a coverage area, do yourself a huge favor; stay away from the newest iphones until apple finally gets around to patching their devices signal reception issues. Still can’t make a voice call without dropping a signal on my iPhone 14 while the Samsung s23 sitting next to it with the same connection has no problem.

Did the T-Mobile tech confirm to you both phones located in the exact same physical locations are being assigned to the exact same frequency bands? Just having them connect to the same cell tower is not enough.

For example, the iPhone 14 supports the following 5G NR frequency bands:

n1, n2, n3, n5, n7, n8, n12, n14, n20, n25, n26, n28, n29, n30, n38, n40, n41, n48, n53, n66, n70, n71, n77, n78, n79

The Galaxy S23 appears (Samsung themselves don't specify) to support:

n1, n2, n3, n5, n7, n8, n12, n20, n25, n28, n38, n40, n41, n66, n77, n78

So if the iPhone 14 is assigned to a frequency in bands n14, n26, n29, n30, n48, n53, n70, or n71, you may see drastically different performance characteristics simply because the S23 cannot use those frequencies.

I'm in Ontario Canada on Rogers Wireless and my reception with iPhone 14 pro has been choppy at best

people are always telling me the call is choppy they can't hear me proper, I don't remember having this issue with the 12, 13 iPhones

turn on wifi calling might help in the house.

I just spent a ton of money on what should be an upgrade but this iPhone 14 pro max is horrible and I live in Los Angeles— what is the best fix for bad signal and double or triple the wait time just to get a “retry sign” or nothing at all

Contact your carrier.

I just spent a week in Alaska and the 14 Pro Max's performance was exemplary in rural areas with signal as it was in Anchorage or is in the suburban area I which I live normally.

Signal bars are only relative between copies of the exact same device and cannot be directly compared between different models and different generations of device.

Or, getting three bars of signal on an iPhone 13 Pro Max does not mean you will see three bars on an iPhone 14 Pro Max.

Have you contacted your cellular carrier to see if they are having issues?

Except I disabled 5G network entirely in the Settings > Cellular > Cellular Data Options menu and it still has nonstop issues with connectivity. So how does your hypothesis that it’s nothing Apple can fix in their phone line up with this?

You said you understood yet you went on to again compare the signal bars on the two phones.

One bar on the 14 Pro may mean the exact same signal level as full bars on the 14 Pro Max, you cannot compare them.

You can only compare between phones of the exact same model, a 14 Pro to another 14 Pro or a 14 Pro Max to another 14 Pro Max.

My point was to say it’s poor in comparison to other new phones. I often have sos only the pro max has has 1-2 so it’s clearly a better phone for reception. Something I didn’t expect to be such a big difference when I went with the pro and not pro max

Again, you've provided zero proof of that, because you're still comparing signal bars despite the fact I've told you multiple times signal bars are only relative on the exact same model of phone.

One bar on phone A compared to three bars on phone B is completely meaningless.

krushnakant10 wrote:

ping is too much high and youtube playing is not possible on 4G and 5G network issue

4G and 5G are cellular technologies - only your cellular carrier can help you with that issue.