How do I make IOS 6 keep wifi on when iPod is sleeping?

This worked for me. Thanks. In fact, I didn't have to go through all your steps. I just did the soft reset (home button and top button) and when it restarted, it worked.

Thanks - worked for me too!

Didn't fix it for me. I think the problem is more intractable with corporate routers which deauthorise the IOS 6 devices when they go to sleep mode, with the power unplugged.

Your solution does not fix....This problem only started after I updated my 3gs and my wifes 4s to the latest ios 6.1 ....What a pain....Is it possible to go back to previous version? Will the "apple heads" provide a fix????

Still searching...😕

That solution didn't work for my iPod 5G or my kids iPods 4G, iOS6 succks as what's the point of iMessages or iFacetime if I'm not getting them when my kids call me or I call them when in sleep/lock mode, I disabled WMM on my router as someone else's advice and my iPod 5 connects faster as soon as I hit the home button (before it could took 3-5 secs for the wifi to connect) but it didn't fix the issue about disconnecting on sleep mode ... so any news today with the 6.1.2 update? did it fix this? please somebody say yes

Nope, I have my iPod Touch 4G updated to 6.1.2 and this problem is still there.

the Reset mentioned above does work. I have done this on my iPhone 4 running iOS 6.0.1

not sure if wifi will stay on without iCloud but I use my old iphone 4 as an ipod and leave it in my truck 24/7 with the iphone automaticly synced over wifi I can have my iphone 4 asleep in my truck and still be connected to wifi so I can sync music without bringing the phone in my house.

I was not able to do this before the reset i would have to go to my truck and unlock my phone and give it a few seconds to connect to wifi before being able to sync with my computer

tnx

Hi JimHdk, completely disagree with you. Sorry ...

In my case, I have a full Cisco home network, using a 1801 as ADSL router and an AIR-AP1142N for Wi-Fi access. Both devices had an up-to-date IOS (sorry all, name of firmware used for Cisco devices AND Apple devices are the same - iOS for Apple and IOS for Cisco 😉).

Things underwent flawlessly when I was running iOS 5.1.1 on my 3GS, Wi-Fi remaining constantly 'on'. Then I upgraded to 6.0.1 (skipped iOS 6.0). What a mistake!

Fortunately, I always save my .shsh when I upgrade my iPhone at each new release, so still able to reinstall 5.1.1 😁).

I upgraded since IOS of Cisco devices (now running 15.2(2)JB on access-point), which of course did not solved the issue.

Forgot to mention that I use my iPhone on another location having too Cisco devices, using an older access-point, an AIP-AP 1130 running IOS 12.4(25d)JA1. Things went flawlessly over there too up to iOS 5.1.1 on my iPhone.

Hope that Apple reckons a day that this iOS is a little ... bugged!

Hi Muji_23, thanks for the tip!

Unfortunately, did not work for my iOS (6.0.1). What I have now is a more consistent connection, but with flapping (I have disconnects every 2/3 minutes, even while downloading an e-mail attachment, for example!). Did not reenable 3G though.

Perhaps I have to upgrade to 6.1.2 first ... but I doubdt 😉

Ok, thank me later.

I have an iPhone 4S with 6.1.3 and same issue/problem since the beginning.

Solution:

Turn screen auto-lock in settings to "NEVER", and wifi will stay connected while screen off. I've tested it after waiting 1 hour with screen manually turned off.

Mine's been set to never forever and it doesn't go to sleep ever. As long as it stays awake I have a connection,, iPod touch 5 latest update. I really wish something would work! Find my iPod and other apps that depend on wifi are useless

That is the trade off...you would have to manually turn off the screen. But it's the only solution that is easy and works, in terms of screen being off and wifi still on.

It's not magic but it certainly works.

Is it still working?

trgordon21

Apple should fix this problem because it makes wifi useless for FaceTime and iMessage. Big problem.