Mikef91

Q: Slow Wifi on iPhone 6 Plus

Anyone experiencing really slow WiFi on their new iPhone 6 Plus? Mine is super slow.  When I switch off WiFi, LTE works perfectly and very snappy.  I didn't have any issues with my 5s and not having issues with my iPad Air.  I doubt it's an iOS 8 issue because the 5s and iPad Air are running iOS 8.  WiFi also works fine on my 13" MacBook Pro Retina.  It's not a router issue.  Any ideas??

Posted on Sep 19, 2014 8:09 PM

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  • by bamaldy50,

    bamaldy50 bamaldy50 Aug 7, 2015 2:33 PM in response to Mikef91
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    Aug 7, 2015 2:33 PM in response to Mikef91

    Thanks so much Mikef91!  I have been ready to throw my new iPhone 6 out the window.  So far your suggestion has worked.  I'll report back if it stops working later.

  • by KennyLiu,

    KennyLiu KennyLiu Sep 1, 2015 9:53 PM in response to Mikef91
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    Sep 1, 2015 9:53 PM in response to Mikef91

    Try switching off your bluetooth. The Wifi speeds up instantly for me.

     

    I wonder if this is the problem they had with Macbook Pro a while back where if you have the bluetooth on the wifi stop working.

     

    It's not so much IOS8, but the problem started when I got the Apple Watch and I have to left the bluetooth on all the time.

     

    Can someone else confirm if it's the bluetooth interfering

  • by paullatin,

    paullatin paullatin Oct 1, 2015 4:34 PM in response to Mikef91
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    Oct 1, 2015 4:34 PM in response to Mikef91

    Hi all, I have a brand new iPhone 6s Plus since updating to IOS 9.0.2 WiFi is very very slow. So much so that trying to even install twitter is taking over an hour. So I decided to test with Telegraph 4G which I have full speed and it is also very slow. I believe it could be a fault with the WiFi and LTE chips which if I'm not mistaken could be now in the A9 processor. Not sure IOS patch may fix this problem but need Apple to respond.

  • by oharsh,

    oharsh oharsh Oct 4, 2015 5:46 PM in response to Mikef91
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    Oct 4, 2015 5:46 PM in response to Mikef91

    Yes very slow.  Reset my network settings and worked for a few minutes, but now it's really slow again.  I'm getting 18 mbps download speeds which isn't LTE fast, but it should be fast enough for downloading apps.  This has to be an iOS 9 issue.  I sent feedback to Apple about this problem so hopefully they'll fix it soon. 

  • by Evnn,

    Evnn Evnn Nov 2, 2015 3:01 PM in response to Mikef91
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    Nov 2, 2015 3:01 PM in response to Mikef91

    FWIW after trying a ton of the suggestions in here, the one that just worked for me was to create a separate network name (SSID) within my router for the 5Ghz network. Once my two problem devices (iPad Air, iPhone 5S) were forced to connect to that 5Ghz-only WiFi SSID, BOOM, problem solved. Router is an older Airport Extreme (Fifth Generation).

     

    My symptom had been as follows: iPad Air 2 and Android phone operating on WiFi at expected max speed given our Comcastic plan with an owned DOCSIS 3 cable modem (about 50MB down)... meantime my iPhone 5s and iPad Air painfully slow (like under 1MB down). Occasional bursts of speed, but not for long. This problem only cropped up after iOS 9, which aggravates me. My suspicion is that it's something in iOS 9 on these older devices that makes it lock on to the 2.4GHz band rather than automatically using the more-robust 5GHz band. I should also say, for anybody reading this, I live in a crowded urban environment with a TON of neighboring 2.4GHz networks stepping all over each other (if you're a PC user curious to see this what your area's WiFi networks look like, try out the free Xirrus Wifi Inspector, pretty interesting). I bet if I lived in the country I wouldn't have experienced this problem.

     

    Anyway, hope this helps somebody out.

  • by Oneyejack,

    Oneyejack Oneyejack Nov 24, 2015 8:15 PM in response to Mikef91
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    Nov 24, 2015 8:15 PM in response to Mikef91

    Unfortunately, I am having the same issue, on all my Apple devices with IOS 9. Use speedtest app and get 12 ms ping, 20mb download and 12mb upload. It has to be the operating system. All apps that require connection are sluggish or even freeze.

  • by NamesAlwaysTaken,

    NamesAlwaysTaken NamesAlwaysTaken Nov 27, 2015 2:20 PM in response to Oneyejack
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    Nov 27, 2015 2:20 PM in response to Oneyejack

    I have the exact same problem. Wifi speeds are fine on speedtest (30+mbps); however, all apps, including apple store, games, browser, etc, all super slow on wifi. Switching to LTE immediately solves the problem.

  • by KetanGolecha,

    KetanGolecha KetanGolecha Dec 2, 2015 10:42 AM in response to bamaldy50
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    Dec 2, 2015 10:42 AM in response to bamaldy50

    *found solution finally*

     

    I tried all solutions given above, everything is temporary.

    The actual problem is the icloud drive. It uses a lot of bandwith, so switch off your icloud drive and your wifi will give you the best speeds.

  • by Jarom Ellsworth,

    Jarom Ellsworth Jarom Ellsworth Jun 12, 2016 9:36 PM in response to Mikef91
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    Jun 12, 2016 9:36 PM in response to Mikef91

    I tried all kinds of things listed here but what seems to work the best is turning off bluetooth. My iPad has had no problems and I keep the bluetooth turned off.

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