iPhone 15 Pro Max Wi-Fi Issues

I’m having similar issues with my 15 pro max when I use VPN private internet access, when I turn on the vpn and leave it on overnight by the morning the WiFi doesn’t work, what I have to do is turn vpn back on and off and the internet works fine, this is on going since the launch of the iPhone , never had this issue with my 14 pro max.

I had the same issues since I picked up my iPhone on launch day. It's been very inconsistent with the WIFI. 3 other iPhones in the house [12 Pro Max, 12 Mini and 11], 4 iPads and 3 Mac books. All others had zero issues so it was pretty obvious that is was the new iPhone. I was on with Apple support quite a few times, they had me delete VPNs, change this and that, reset network settings [which I would do on my own]. The WIFI would sometimes work and other times not.

Fix: I asked them to ship me a new phone. I received it, sent to old one back and haven't had the issue once with the replacement [up to now]. I did purchase AppleCare+ when I picked up the original phone in September. I don't know if you need that for the replacement option, but that has definitely fixed my issue.

I can't believe after 3 months and several software updates, Apple still hasn't address this issue or fixed it.

But I have a small update. After giving up for some time, I circled back to the various threads from Apple Community, Reddit, and MacRumors and someone suggested renaming the SSID of their 5ghz wifi. Miraculously, my iPhone 15 Pro Max was able to connect to that channel and have internet connection. However, it seems unstable. It has lost internet connection within a couple of minutes a few times. I would have to either forget the network and reconnect or put it in and out of airplane mode to get it to reconnect. I'll have to continue using to see if it'll keep doing that.

For reference, my SSID was the default of "CenturyLinkXXXX-5G" (where the XXXX is the name for each of the apartment in my building). I renamed it to "CenturyLinkXXXX-test" and it seemed to work. I made no other changes to the wifi's channel, mode, bandwidth, etc; only changed the name of the wifi.

Good luck and godspeed.

Fingers crossed this helps my 15 Pro Max! It started dropping my home WiFi over the weekend and the privacy relay popped up. I turned the privacy relay off and it helped for about 2 hours then it started again.. my daughter’s newer 14 does the same. We reset the home router, forgot the network, etc. Sometimes it works and sometimes it does not. The WiFi isn’t the issue, it’s something going on with the phones. Today for now, it is working ok. Last night I had to disconnect to send texts or send the sms. My husband’s older iPhone SE has zero WiFi connection issues along with every other device that uses the home WiFi..

I have been having really slow WiFi speeds on my iPhone 15 pro max. I reset my network settings and TURNED OFF PRIVATE WIFI ADDRESS and my WiFi speeds jumped up to normal (previously 30mbps down to 300+mbps down on 1GB Verizon Fios internet)

Seems like this issue has returned with the recent update. I haven't had a problem since November '23, but after installing the recent iOS update my 15 Pro Max is back to the 2.4ghz network. No other devices on the network are having this issue except for my 15 Pro Max.

I have an eero network (not for much longer) and it doesn't off much control over the network. I used the wireless scanner tool and see my 5GHZ network is at 160mhz width. Is the channel width the cause of the problem? With eero I have no control over channel width and channel, but I suspect its fine as a 14 pro has no issue.

what I've tried:

• Restart phone, network, and modem

• Hard restart phone (5ghz connected for 30 seconds then bounced through the nodes and back to 2.4ghz)

• Reset network settings on iPhone

• Forgot network multiple times

I have been having this issue since it came out and have not been able to figure it out. I do suspect it was related to 5Ghz with my Eero Pro as I hadn't seen it happen elsewhere besides my house, and my past iPhone didn't have issues. Likely a software bug.

I did see the post about changing DNS from Automatic to Manual, and I'm not sure why that would make a difference, but with this being a software issue, you never know. I did make this change and it has seemed to resolve the issue for me. For others that said they did this and it did not work, make sure you are actually changing your DNS servers when choosing this option. If you switch to Manual, it still defaults to whatever your DNS record was on Automatic, likely not changing anything for you. When you get the option to type in a new DNS entry, choose some new ones. I am currently using Google (8.8.8.8) and Cloudflare (1.1.1.1), and saw the problem go away.

Hope this helps others out.

Having great difficulty with WiFi… connections. My new IPhone 15 Pro Max either says it can’t connect or it does but doesn’t hold the connection!

It was nordvpn for me! Deleted it and it connected straight away.

Temporary fix:

1. Restart router and connect back.
2. Reset Network settings on iPhone. (You would need to put the password again for all networks)

I’m definitely having the same issue. Turning it off and back on seems the fix the problem temporarily for me.

I really really hope it's not a hardware issue. I'd rather not have to wait months to physically get a new phone.