Even After the iOS6.0.2 update the wifi on the new iPhone 5 is painfully slow. YouTube videos and websites load very slowly and Siri doesn't respond a lot of the time.
iPhone 5, iOS 6.0.2
Am having the same Wifi issue...updated to ios 6.0.2 still the same..compared the conn speed with other phones using the same wifi signal iphone5 was slowest...n btw compared it with old htc models....
I downloaded the new iOS 6.1 and the video problem when connected to WiFi still exists. Can someone from apple please advise if they are aware of this?
hm. couple of questions to ask:
The only thing I've found that works is re setting network settings on my phone
Guys, if you're using YouTube's official app to watch videos, stop. I found that the app itself is slow. Get a better YouTube browser or just go to YouTube on Safari. The buffering speed on safari is unreal!
I have been facing the same issue. Painfully slow videos buffering speed and even the app store takes ages to open. I see the problem has been persisting for quite sometime. Why isn't the apple support team doing anything about it?
it really seems they cannot be botherd they'v had they'r money, i just moved back to iphone from android used to love android but buy those devices & everything is laggy (although "BASICS" such as WIFI do work) even with the powerfull specs but the only reason they put big processors in is because they cant be botherd to polish the os & make it "fit" the phone, so the processor works overtime therefore overheats & canes the battery, complete in-efficient crap that looks good on paper, i give up with modern technology its overated overpriced & not worth the hassel, stick with a good old pc & standard phone, you wont go far wrong!
4 months with no resolution?! It took nearly 10 minutes just to signed in! It is infuriating to sit 10 minutes in starts and stops trying to watch a 2 minute YouTube video.
...and so says all of us
I reset my phone and changed the channel my WiFi was broadcasting on; I saw some improvement, but youtube continues to pause every few seconds.
Solution!
Well i was having the same problem, wifi downloading speed was **** slow but i figured it out.
Go to "settings"
"Wifi"
"Device you are connected to, e.g american internet.
Click ">" of the wifi router you are connected with
click "DNS"
And write "8.8.8.8" or "8.8.4.4" instead what ever is written there.
Enjoy!
For those using wireless N routers
this works for me and my ip5:
*Set for the highest channel and bandwidth available.
*Use WPA2 with AES security
*Enable WMM
*Of course set the mode to B,G,N,
After Tweaking look for the N status on connected devices.
Distance from the router would be a factor if you can't get the 11n status.
changed from 3mb/s dl to 30mb/s download with the speedtest app. THANK YOU!!!!
I have been combatting the slow wifi speed issue for months, and until recently the only solution I'd found was where someone suggested that downloading a large app from the App Store would improve the wifi data speed for other applications. While this did, indeed, work, as you can imagine it was a pain.
Contrary to poputlar belief, the WIFI issue is NOT AN IPHONE HARDWARE PROBLEM (at least in my case).
A couple of months ago, AT&T throttled my LTE data speeds, and when they did not return to normal after my next billing cycle began, I contacted customer service, and the troubleshooting process lead to the reslution of the slow LTE data speed, and surprisingly the wifi data speed issue as well.
The oddly simple and unexplicable solution: a new SIM card.
After trying every concievable procedure to try and get my LTE data speeds back to normal, ATT's tech support agent finally suggested that I try replacing the SIM card. I had my doubts, but with Apple's "geniuses" unable to effecitvely diagnose the phone's mechanisms for connecting to wifi and data network and suggesting I spend $280 to replace a phone that may or may not need replacing, I had few other options. So I went to the ATT store to pick up a new SIM card.
After inserting the new SIM card, their was no immediate improvement in data speed for either LTE or wifi; however, after several hours, when I did another speed test, all data speeds were up to par.
iPhone 5 wifi slow
