Iphone 5 Wifi keeps disconnecting whilst on lock.

I don't believe that's the case. I've had mine swapped twice and the problem persisted. It was also exclusive to only one wifi connection.

I also discovered another fix if you're willing to spend around $30. I bought a netgear wifi signal booster. You plug it in and it creates a separate wifi network based off of your existing one. I connected to that network and finally it maintains the connection. Even if I leave and come back later, it will reconnect on its own. It's annoying to have to spend the extra money but was still worth it in my case.

Ok, thank me later.

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

Solution:

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

That's a tempory fix. It's not curing the problem. It's sounds like a phone setting

Problem. Did you try to reset network settings?

It's a permanent fix for me.

Maybe you have another solution? Oh right, you don't.

So, use this permanent solution, or post another solution, or shut up

And from your post, I take it your wifi works with screen off?

Don't think so.

Have you tried praying?

I'm having this problem also, with a new iPhone 5, and I know it is not my router, becuase it happens both at home and at work using their WiFi. I have auto-lock to "never" -- but there is no way, that I know of, to close the screen -- so with auto lock to never, it stays connected, but uses battery because the screen is also on. Is there a way to close the screen without locking the phone on a 5?

There is no way to have the screen shut off without the phone locking at the same time.

I had the same issue with my dlink router. Followed the suggestion of changing the default name to something else and it seems I fixed the issue for both my iphone 5 and my ipad!

My problem was still happening (and not due to a router, since it happens at connections away from home also). The Apple store says there is nothing wrong with it. However, they suggested I try it without the OtterBox case as that might be interfering with the antenna. I went to a gel case, cut out a piece of it around the antenna area, and that seems to have helped in most places. It still disconnects at work, but that might be their WiFi issue.

I'm at a conference using hotel wifi and the connection keeps dropping each time my phone is in locked mode.

I went into Settings > Wi-Fi > hit the blue arrow beside the connection I wanted, scrolled down and under HTTP Proxy changed it from "Off" to "Auto" and that seems to have worked. Fingers crossed!

That sounds like a quirk specific to that network. Hotel WiFi is notoriously bad. It doesn't help that the staff on site usually has no clue when it comes to networking at all.

Hi,

I changed the router and it works. My problem was it kept disconecting every few minutes, especially when I was doing something that used more data, like netflix or youtube... I have first changed the phone, than when I realized I had o problems on other wi fi, I changed the router. I had a zyxel before. The problem is in some packages of data sent, that is set on the router.

I got my phone less than a month ago. It didn't have an issue with this until today, and it was with a network that has no password. Every time the screen locked, it would disconnect.

I switched "Data Roaming" to "On" instead of "Off" (I had been traveling and had turned it off recently) and the problem stopped, at least for now.

It seems like for each of us there may be a different solution, but for me, that worked.

Okay nevermind that first thing..it didn't work for more than a few hours. Trying other things but won't post about them until they work for at least a day. Lesson learned. 🙂

hello guys!

stuck in the same problem too, have read many forums from different countries and haven't solved it.

I have 4s with 6.1.3 iOS.

The main thing I discovered - the phone is connected in different ways with different routers: wi-fi works at my job fine when the screen is locked, but it turns off when I'm home. And I guessed that maybe it is not iphone problem but problem with router settings.

At home I have a router D-Link Dir-651 and I just decided to try a different combination of its settings.

Here is the combination that made ​​the wi-fi to work!

I changed the value of the "channel" to "auto" and "Wireless mode" from "802.11b \ r \ n" to just "802.11n".

And it works!

Hopefully, this method will help someone.