Ventura 13.2.1 - wifi dropping on MBP and Mini

Can this issue please be escalated so Apple can fix it in their next update? It’s clearly an OS Ventura problem by reading people’s comments.

Am seeing the same issue with a brand new out-of-the box M2 mini and Ventura 13.2.1.

Cannot connect to home wifi, on the phone for hours with tech, have half-functional connection via phone tethering. Was asked to reinstall Ventura after all the safe mode reboot, various troubleshooting, etc. 36 hours and 55 minutes remaining on install.

Initially it did not look like the box is capable of bandwidth hopping or channel conflict resolution, but rebooting router had compatible channel / band and initially appeared to connect but then failed. Something is majorly horked and it's not my environment - wif6 new(ish) capable router and all other Mac devices (ranging from unsupported old iPad to Catalina to M1 Ventura work laptop to multiple iPhone generations on most recent connecting are flawlessly. Appears to be combo of Apple Silicon on the mini and latest Ventura.

On verge of returning my new purchase. Deeply disappointing.

I was thrilled to come across this thread because I thought I might finally have a resolution to this issue, but NO. I have the exact same problem and have had it since the upgrade to Ventura. I have an Intel-based MBP, 2019 fully maxed out on RAM and Disk. I've been on a wide variety of private and public WiFi networks so it's definitely not a WiFi environment problem. I disabled and then uninstalled my VPN to no avail. Any serious work like online meetings have to be conducted on my iPad because the MBP is non-mission capable. Very disappointed!

Hello christof21,

Thank you for reaching out in Apple Support Communities. You've done an excellent job with the troubleshooting steps that were performed. If you're using a VPN or have a third party security software installed on your Mac, we suggest to temporarily remove it and test to see if the Wi-Fi connection remains connected. This may cause the Wi-Fi network to not remain connected to your Mac. Here's our support article with additional details: Check VPN (Virtual Private Network) and third-party software to help resolve network connectivity issues - Apple Support

We look forward to hearing back from you with an update.

Kind regards.

For the OP: If it's your home router and wifi access point then two other things I'd try.

1. see what wireless channels the wireless selects automatically and then, assuming you can, set it to fixed channels (2.4 and 5GHz) which are different from and a long way from (numerically) the channels it chooses automatically. You might be seeing interference and this might help.

2.Give the problem devices static IPs and make sure they are bound to their mac addresses in the router. You can use the IPs that are assigned by DCHP, but once you've changed from DCHP to static you'll should update the bind list just to make sure there are no clashes in future. You'll have to power cycle the router and the Macs once you've done it.

I do have the same problem with my M2 MBA 2023. With my previous M1 MBP, I did not have any issues at all. @Apple, please fix this.

Same here. 2021 MBP M1 running 13.2.1

Experienced everything described in this post. What is the resolution?

i've spent literally a full day with Apple Support with no success or ideas...i'm hoping the new OS won't have this issue

Download and run Etrecheck. Be sure to give it Full Disk access before running.

Copy and paste the results into your reply. Etrecheck is a diagnostic tool that was developed by one of the most respected users here in the ASC and recommended by Apple Support  to provide a snapshot of the system and help identify the more obvious culprits that can adversely affect a Mac's performance.

Copy the report

and use the Additional Text button to paste the report in your reply.

Then we can evaluate the report to see if we can determine the cause of the problem.

Hi Bryan,

Ive already done like you suggest, to uninstall antivirus mcaffee. But my mb air m1 still couldnt connect to the internet eventhough using personal hotspot on my iphone.

Still need your help, regarding to this ventura updates.

Regards

christof21 wrote:

this thread seems to have gone dead but my sadly my problem hasn't magically resolved itself.

It's clearly an issue with MacOS and I need some sort of fix or answer to what the issue is and what is being done to fix it.

At the moment, the issue is rendering both MBP and Mac Mini pretty much useless with the wifi constantly dropping and then not even connecting or seeing any wifi networks.

I would suggest that you try to systematically turn off each bluetooth device in the vicinity, one at a time, to try to see if one bluetooth device is interfering. Another option -- switch to the 5 GHz WiFi, as Bluetooth is at 2 GHz.

It's happening with the latest stable update Ventura 13.3 in the MBP M1 Max. It's happening because of AWDL.

Disabling it using the below command seems to fix the issue.

sudo ifconfig awdl0 down

Unfortunately, the service gets auto-enabled after a few minutes, you can check the status by using this command

sudo ifconfig awdl0

No straightforward way to disable it completely.