ios 6.1 wifi issue

same **** problem.....*** apple............................................................not cool.

I don't know if this will help anyone, but I upgraded my iPhone from IOS 5.1 to 6.1 today and saw similar wifi issues. I have an iPhone 4 and an Airport Extreme basestation. My phone never had any problems when running IOS 5.1 but once it was upgraded to IOS 6.1 I had similar issues everyone is complaining about.

What I saw was my phone would sometimes get an IP address and other times would self assign an address. When it did get a valid IP address, webpages still would not load or sometimes would start loading and eventually fail.

I tried everything people were talking about, restarting the phone, the router, resetting network settings, etc. I even tried restoring the phone again and not applying my backup so the phone was "clean". Same problem.

Then I looked at my Airport Extreme wireless settings. I had my 2.4GHz network set on a specific channel. When I changed it to automatic the phone finally started working. When I changed back to a fixed channel the phone stopped working. Back to automatic, the phone works. For me at least, it seams like setting the airport channel manually is causing my problems. I even tried setting it to automatic, testing the phone works, finding the channel being used, setting that working channel manually and the phone does not work. It makes no sense to me but setting the channel to automatic is working for now......

If this is the problem then I can only assume I will have huge problems using public wifi and hotspots since I am sure they set channels manually. I'll have to spend a little time seeing how well it works in the wild.

Paul, I feel your pain! I have the exact same issue. It's frustrating to find how the iPhone 5 seems to "magically" work flawlessly with the apple store wifi but no where else. Very frustrating! The geniuses all look at you like you are an idiot with no clue how to use wifi. Spending more money on apple products in hopes to get everything to work well just adds insult to injury! Apple please please please fix this! It is getting out of hand. How is this not, "Wifi-gate"???

Same. My iPhone 5 worked quite ok on iOS 6.0.1. But when I updated to 6.1, problems are there. Wifi go on and off randomly. The most frustrating thing will be 3G. I'm not sure whether it is the service provider's problem or what. My friend and me using same carrier, both with iPhone 5, can't detect 3G. You can see full signal at the signal bar but no 3G. When it did, it will sometimes go on and off with full signal. Oh my goodness, 6.1 seems contain more problem the the version before.

Thank you for the tip. Setting router channel to "Automatic" resolved the issue for me.

I was hoping this was it. Not for my unfortunbately. My Airport Extreme was already set for bothe the 2.4GHz and 5GHz channels as automatic. My Macbook is pulling 65.0 Mbps down and the iOS devices pull a 0.5 Mbps in the same location. It's only the iOS devices. I just don't understand it. The iPhone 5 will OCCASIONALLY pull the same 65 Mbps, but it's sporatic.

I too am having wifi issues after upgrading to 6.1. Maxed our data plan because we didn't know we were on 3G/4G instead of wifi!! Apple please fix! I've been a loyal apple user for 20 + years!

Same here..after updating to 6.1 wifi has stopped working..

it detects the network..connects the router..but fails to load the webpages.. tried resetting..switching on off..everything possible..but it wont work..

Could this be the reason I am not able to delete the photo albums from my ipod?

I called apple customer service and they recommeded to reset network settings. I did it and now my internet is as good as it was before!

Having the same issue with my iPad 3. Wish I had never upgraded now. This is a major pain, since I depend on my ipad for work and sending files to clients. Fortunately I didn't upgrade my iPhone and intend not to until these bugs are fixed. I certainly hope Apple is reading these complaints and does not make us wait 5 months before they fix anything.

Having the exact problem here. Wifi keeps switching off and on once screen is locked.

C'mon apple you can do better..

I have finally found a solution!!!

I just realized the problem with the Wi-Fi after upgrading to iOS 6.1, while trying to transfer photos & videos over Wi-Fi to my computer. I am using an iPhone 4S and before upgrading I had no issues with this. Normally my transfers were about 2000-3000 KB/s while the wireless router is in another room. But today I realized that the transfer speed was about 10 KB/s which is extremely slow. Then I checked with safari, with speed test, with appstore, and everything was really slow under Wi-Fi. I did not face such problems before upgrading iOS 6.1.

Then I read Mr. STiVo's reply above and checked my Wireless LAN setting in my Router. The channel settings were already on Auto. But there is one more setting "Channel Width". It was on Auto 20/40 Mhz. I set it to 20 Mhz, and everything was fine! My transfers are as fast as before.

Also take a look at this thread:

http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4199

It also recommends setting channel width to 20 MHz.

Hope that it helps for you, too!

Ios 6.1 in my iphone 5 work perfectly both wifi and battery.

(Formerly, I have encountered wifi and battery problem in ios 6.0.1 and 6.0.2)

I'm getting the same garbage, iPhone 5, ios 6.1... prior to 6.1 no issues at all but now wifi just drops repeatedly. Apple, do u not QA test before releasing software?? This is unacceptable