Flyboy114 wrote:
UPDATE: My iPhone is keeping the wifi connection but it doesn't automatically connect to the preferred wifi. Why would AT&T want this? Would it be because they can charge more for data transfers over their network if we keep forgetting to be sure that we are connected to wifi? Hmmm.
ATT has nothing to do with your Wi-Fi connections whatsoever – except in one department, when you are close to an open AT&T Wi-Fi hotspot, the phone, iPad, or iTouch will automatically connect to it… But this isn't an AT&T alone feature many other providers do this on the iPhone as well
Whatsoever – except in one department, when you are close to an open AT&T Wi-Fi hotspot, the phone, iPad, or iTouch will automatically connect to it… But this isn't an AT&T alone feature many other providers do this on the iPhone as well
the issue of any iOS device dropping Wi-Fi when the screen is locked… This is not a bug, this is not a hardware issue, this is not a software issue… This is deliberately programmed behavior by Apple. Now where the problem does why is it an iOS device is connected to power, whether it's charging or at 100%, it is never supposed to disconnect from Wi-Fi..
however, it does anyway and this is something Apple has changed and changed back over several or I should say many patches over various iOS versions from 5 to 9
for the longest time, Apple kept Wi-Fi active anytime you were connected to power, Apple even states this in their support forms… But they also sometimes remove this feature from iOS, and when they do, this feature disappears from the support forms at Apple
For the longest time, Apple kept Wi-Fi active anytime you were connected to power, Apple even states this in their support forms… But they also sometimes remove this feature from iOS, and when they do, this feature disappears from the support forms at Apple
I think this basically has to do with power and battery life… Not everybody uses the best recharging adapter for their device and if you kept the device on Wi-Fi, even with the screen lock you would slowly lose power vs gain it – especially if you only use a 5v, 1A charger. The newest iPhones and iPads should really be run on a 5 to 5.2 V adapter with 2.2 to 2.5 available amps to draw… You cannot hurt a device by piling on amperage… However you can destroyed by piling on voltage… And Apple devices can handle volts in the range of 5 to 5.2v
anyway, there is a way to keep everything on Wi-Fi if you have an iPhone, and either an iPof touch or a form of an iPad tablet
You have to tell the iPhone to forward any text messages to those devices… At the same time you cannot have those devices set to automatically receive iMessages and FaceTime messages at the same exact address… Because that was another way of forwarding or I should say getting copies to each device every time you were text message… As long as all the same devices are on the same physical lan network and the same subnet, each device can be connected to a completely different access point as long as the lan is identical. You can also tell the iPhone that you want to forward any phone calls to your other idevices when on Wi-Fi. Once you enable these features, the iPhone, iPad, or what ever are not supposed to drop the Wi-Fi connection even when on battery because if they drop the connection even when on just battery, the features you chose will not work
this feature work perfectly fine in iOS 8… It even worked in iOS 9.0.x, ever since 9.1 came out, they are all dropping their Wi-Fi connection within 15 to 30 seconds after being locked… Even with the forwarding going on, and this breaks the text message and phone call forwarding to your iPads… It also prevents you from making phone calls from your iPad over Wi-Fi using your iPhone… T only current way around this bug is to tell your devices to not lock at all… I don't recommend this when you were in public but there should be no problem while you were at home and they are charging next to you in bed… Well maybe not in bed with you but… On the nightstand next to you… as Long as the display brightness is not too high, the battery should not drain – even while plugged into...if you are not plugged in the power, and you were just running on battery mode, then you should keep the screens as dim as possible… This is about the only current work around I know until they fix this
otherwise if you don't have a phone call forwarding over Wi-Fi, and your other devices or text messaging forwarding ovdrr Wi-Fi at your other devices, then Wi-Fi is supposed to drop when you lock your device – that is normal behavior
Personally, to help prevent excessive data charges, Apple should have switch feature saying "always keep Wi-Fi active", and when you switch it on, the device will never disconnect from Wi-Fi, and if your access point goes down and you happen to have another that you are authorized to use, it will then sePeak out and then connect to that other ap
