iPhone 4 cannot connect to home Wi-Fi

i assume you didnt read forgemaster343 follow up on the internet refresh page explaining wifi grey out. so shut up. hahaha as a credit card provider employee im surprised to you didnt read all the explainations before opening your trap. dont get me wrong im not kissing anybodies ***, im just surprised he took the time to help and type out the troubleshoot. when in fact after i was more surprised people who read it didnt bother trying it and just clearly thought their problem was anything special. its not. 🙂 trollololol

As I said, again learn to read. Tried it all, none of it worked...fool. Stop hanging on to someone elses tail coat idiot. The problem was with the phone. Go back to school ****tard! You got anything productive to say. Why post and hang out of the back of another poster? You have no solutions and nothing to say. Why you posting? troll. Can't fix anything. Can't say anything worth while, just point to another poster....go home to mommy...loser.

Ok, My support request was completed. Here is what apple said:- After thorough diagnostic testing, it has been determined that a replacement iphone*(enclosed) is necessary.

I restored it with my backup from itunes, with my previous settings. The replacement phone is working perfectly, detecting all wifi networks on my street including my home network. There was no need for me to change any of my router settings. Although my problems started after the ios 6 software upgrade, this must have been coincidental. It seems there was a hardware problem and this has resolved all of my isssues.

Just thought I would post this update incase it could be of benefit to anyone else experiencing the same issues (especially those with an active 1 year warranty) that impacted me.

INTERFERENCE FROM WIRELESS PRINTER!

I had the same problem with my iPhone 4 and then 4S, when I upgraded to that model: It connected to every WiFi network except to ours at home (consisting of 9 other devices, 4 of them iOS devices, that have had no connectivity problems whatsoever).

I tried everything listed in this thread. I also telephoned Apple technical support which determined that it is one of three things: (1) the router is too old to support the iPhone (the router was manufactured 3 years ago and has the latest firmware update, but I went and purchased an Airport Express, and the problem persisted); (2) the 2.4GHz went bad on the router (but the gaming consoles are 2.4GHz and they connect fine!); or (3) there is a channel conflict (ours is set to a different channel than any of the other networks in range).

What it turned out to be was interference from our Canon wireless printer. (It wasn't a device conflict, as the printer and iPhone are assigned two different IP addresses.) If I use the printer's USB connection instead, the WiFi on my iPhone works like a charm!!

Perhaps this might help to resolve the issue for others. 🙂

FOUND A FIX!

Hey. Updated my iOS this morning on my 5 and iPad 3 and had the same stupid problem of not being able to connect to ANY wi-fi router. After trying most of the basic fixes (reset, backup/restore, router reset, etc.) nothing worked.

Got an idea and instead of the phone/ipad connecting to the router, I went into the router and added both devices' MAC addresses to the router's whitelist. This helped the router pre-identify my device and let me through as soon as I typed my WPA2/TKIP password in. On both my idevices, I tapped the > icon next to my wi-fi connection and switched the HTTP proxy to auto. WORKED!

So here's a simple step by step process:

Open router menu (usually 192.168.1.1 or 0.1) in your pc/laptop browser

Go into your configuration menu and look for "MAC Address Filtering"

When you find it, go in and add your idevices' MAC address(es) to the "whitelist"

(to find your MAC address, goto settings->general->about and scroll all the way down.)

Confirm, reboot your router and try reconnecting to your wi-fi on your devices.

Also, you might be able to connect (wifi symbol will turn on, but your won't have internet access), then goto settings->wi-fi-> your connection-> and turn HTTP PROXY to AUTO. This should solve the connectivity problem.

Ok so after struggling to connect my iPhone 4S to my Airport Express for ages, and after reading all the posts and fixes I have found a solution which seems to work for me (so far).

First I tried resetting the AE and the iPhone network settings at the same time, which worked initially but only lasted a day.

From everything I've read it seems the main problem is that the 4S is having trouble connecting on the 802.11a/n on the AE.

This is what I did that has worked for me so far:

First reset the network settings on your iphone.

In Airport Utility go to the Wireless tab.

Change the radio mode to 802.11a/n-802.11b/g.

Change the radio Channel Selection to "manual".

Set the 5GHz to automatic and the 2.4GHz to 11.

Before you click on Update, make sure your iphone is in front of you in the WiFi section (and that wifi is turned on).

Click update in Airport Utility. This will reset your Airport.

Now watch your phone.

AS SOON AS YOUR WIFI NETWORK APPEARS on your iPhone, tap it and connect.

I really hope this helps some people as this has been a very frustrating problem!

The problem I'm having is pretty similar issue. My wi-fi was working fine until my power went out last night. Even almost 12 hours after it came back on, I'm still not able to connect. I tried the "forget this network" option and after typing in the correct password over 20 times I still cannot connect. But the computers in my home are working fine with the wi-fi connection. I know almost nothing about computers, so all of these responses are doing nothing for me. So if someone could explain step-by-step what to do, that would be wonderful.

Hi William,

I had a similiar problem to you after an upgrade, but now I'm able to connect to W-Fi.

Settings>Wi-Fi>select blue circle on the right from network that you want to connect>IP Adress>BootP

This worked for me.

Best regards,

Herok

My iPhone 4s running iOS 6.1.1 was working fine until this afternoon. Then it couldn't get wifi. Not at home, not anywhere. I see that iOS6.2.1 is released and I install it. Still no wifi.

Makes a smart phone pretty **** useless.

And I have tried all the restarts and such. Nothing works.

FIX THIS NOW.

Fantastic idea....but my router will not allow me to update that page. Ugh! I just updated to iOS 6.1.2 to help with battery drain issues and now my 4s will not accept my wifi password. All other PCs, iPAD, phones working fine. Just mine. Have tried every idea in this forum multiple times and still no luck. So frustrated!!

I have had many problems like this but the main thing I have learnt is that it is the interference we get from all the other devies - laptops, cordless phones, comuters, Foxtel, iPads, etc., etc., etc., plus we live in a double brick house, so the signal from the router is very poor. When I stand next to the router the iphone picks up the wifi, but if I walk 10 metres away, it loses it. Solution is to get a booster for the router. I found that this works for me.

Thank you. I tried every suggestion offered at all the sites. Yours is what worked for me (and I also have Wrt54G).

I looked for a "new" network, even though I was typing in the same network name the iphone was trying to connect to. Under settings, I picked "WPA" (not the WPA-2 you suggested) and WHEW! after weeks of typing in my network password every time I entered the house, I was finally okay. I have so much gratitude to these boards for helping everyday people like me figure out our tech problems.

In this case it was not up to your phone to investigate why another device was not allowing it to connect, in all fairness it was up to the wireless router to tell you this but of course this isn't really possible. All the phone knows is that the wireless router probably ignore the iPhone connection, hence the phone returns with something useless.

Also, In a lot of cases ISP provided routers are typically very cheap and very restrictive units, possibly maxing out at about 5 or 10 connections without telling you. You find intermittent behaviour when somebody suddenly dosconnects and you can connect again.

I've always bought decent routers and simply NEVER have had a problem with WiFi on my Apple devices.

What you are seeing here is called an APIPA address, it's an emergency / backup addressing system if your device can't get an IP from the device it's connecting to. I'd bet it's something like 169.254.X.X...

You might try to disable all wifi devices in your house, reboot your router (to clear it's connection cache) and then connect your phone purely on its own.

See if that makes a difference,

My daughter's iPhne 4S failed to connect to her University Wi Fi recently and on return home both Wi Fi and bluetooth were greyed out. All solutions have been tried and all other home devices are connected to Wi Fi. The fault is with the iPhone.