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Can't enable WiFi in iOS 7

My wife has an iPhone 4s and upgraded to iOS7 yesterday.


Today, she's unable to turn on wifi. Even if we go into wifi in the system prefrences, it's like it's diabled. It won't toggle.


If I go in via the drawer at the bottom, it allows me to turn on wifi, but it doesn't actually turn it on.


Airplane mode isn't on. I tried to restart the phone and do a hard refresh and nothing helped.


It's connecting to 3G just fine.

iPhone 4S, iOS 7

Posted on Sep 20, 2013 6:53 PM

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Sep 27, 2013 6:31 AM in response to TwisterMc

Same problem here. Tried all the reboot/ restore from back up / reinstall ios7 / reset network settings. No joy. As I'm typing this I am noticing the keyboard lag that is another common iOS 7 complaint. Anyway my wifi went out in the middle of a Netflix show I was watching on my phone. Just *poof* gone. Very frustrating. Apple needs to fix this NOW. WIFI chip overheating? Read about tossing phone in fridge. I'll pass on the witchcraft. I'd rather throw it in trash if the hardware is that delicate. I'm going to call apple today and see what can be done.

Oct 26, 2013 1:30 AM in response to tufflibrarian

Have the same issues with my moms 4s. I was like why did you upgrade to 7. Everyone always rushes to install the latest. Now it broken. Same deal here. Hold home buuton untill siri comes on. The say "siri please tuen on the wifi". Then it does it. Magic.


But in control center or serttings wifi is still greyed out. My mom went to apple store today and they said the wifi engine is burned out and will be 200 to fix. They didn't even run diagnostic just rudely said wifi engine is burned out.


I did itunes restore and backup. Setup as new device. The wifi turned on again but really slow and no networks found. The after restore I did backup. I mean resotred the phone using the backup. And now don't know what I installed or messed with but the wifi is still fu**ed up. Not turning back on. Still greyed out.


http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1559?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US

Can't enable WiFi in iOS 7

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