wifi issues with iphone 6

Hope this helps somebody. My roommate has an iPhone 6 that began experiencing this same issue right after I bought a fancy $200 ASUS router for our home. All of our devices (between 10-20 connecting throughout the day) worked better with the new router except for this ****** Iphone.
The new router has 2 frequencies: 2.4 and 5 (there are actually two different 5gz channels for a total of three possible in this model but your router may vary)

Using the router settings, I blocked her iPhone's mac address from each 5gz channel, forcing the phone to connect ONLY to 2.4. She is back to normal and a very happy camper tonight.

Before this change, her phone forced connection to 5gz and would then proceed to drop wifi connection when moving throughout the house. Once the connection dropped, she couldn't reconnect without disabling/enabling wifi in the iPhone settings. I once worked as Verizon DSL tech support in 2005-6...No offense to my fellow geeks out there but I know nothing about apple products. I found this thread and guessed this solution after reading to page 5. Got very lucky!

My guess is software related, probably iOS update that causes this problem. Seems like many of you out there were working fine and then one day.... bam. This explains most of the issues here. Please take with a grain of salt... it might be cheaper to get a new router, especially if you just signed for a new phone. You can find many online with money-back guarantees, buy one if you can and send it back if it doesn't fix or help you troubleshoot your issues.

We have very fast Comcast internet but our plan included a cheap Technicolor modem/router combo unit. These are convenient but weak when it comes to heavy loads of traffic. We have 5 adults (2 wireless gamers, 3 telecommuters) so we aren't getting our full bandwidth without a real router. Now we also have these fancy settings to test and troubleshoot connection issues like these. Good luck out there!

You first need to determine if the problem is your phone or your network. For example, does this problem exist with only your local network? If you try another network, is the problem the same?

You can check out this tip from Apple, also: If your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch won’t connect to a Wi-Fi network - Apple Support

I have this same problem in my IPhone 6s. I bought it 5 months ago in the US but it just stopped working on 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi at my home in Brazil. Apple Care refuses to accept it because they test it on 5ghz wifi connection, so my iPhone is fine for them. But this is not true. They have to fix it to me, otherwise I'll sue Apple for this.

Same issue here. No neighbors show up when there are 10-12 within range of me. My signal bounces all over the place when viewed from my router. Fantail is more of a dot than anything. Several hours spent with online Apple Support and nothing was resolved.

I have this same issue. I'm connecting via 5ghz 802.11AC. It connect fine at first, but after a while it will lose connection. Turning wifi on/off does not help. only thing that helps is a power on/off cycle or using the "Reset Network Settings" option under Reset in Settings.

Another person has the same issue here:

iPhone 6 dropping WiFi constantly

Looks like this may be an IOS 8 issue, look here:

http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1778670

5ghz driver issue under IOS 8 maybe? I've switched my wireless router to 2.4ghz mode for now and will see if that's more stable...

Just picked up my iPhone 6 yesterday and am having the same issue. Wifi will scan but not find any networks. Power cycling seems to help but eventually it loses connection and am back where scanning is not picking up anything. I really hope this is software related, but I feel like it may be hardware...seems like a pretty obvious bug that would have got caught at quality control.

And I have both 5ghz and 2.4 ghz enabled from my router and it can't find either of them.

Very frustrating! I don't like buying a brand new phone and having things not work on it.

Update: In case it helps others, as stated in another thread, toggling airplane mode off and then on got my phone to see and connect to wireless again. Seems like an ok temporary solution, for now.

+1 seeing the same thing here. 2.4GHz 802.11n

I have to restart the phone to regain wifi. Toggling the wifi does not work. once in this condition, no networks can be seen.

I too am having problems with wifi. Last night I was able to get my router working on the iphone 6 but the connection was terrible. Today I can't see any wifi connections at all including my own. My ipod touch (running on ios8) and ipad (ios7) are both connecting to wifi with no issues at all. So I'm left thinking I either have a dud or this is the return of the "you're holding the phone the wrong way" gate.

I am having similar issue. WiFi works great for awhile in iPhone 6, then stops. It shows it is connected, but data connections timeout. iPad Air upgraded to iOS 8 right next to it works just fine. Forgetting the WiFi network and reconnecting seems to work for awhile. Very frustrating.

WiFi issues here as well... Standing right beside the AP and only have 1 wifi bar.

We have 2 iPhone 6's in the house - side-by-side - one has full bars throughout the house, the other will only stay connected in the room with the AP.

I think there is a bad batch of phones that didn't get the antennae plugged in correctly??

What's the likelihood of ATT/Apple stores having enough stock for replacements?

Same thing happening to me. I have the latest AC airport extreme and the phone can't stay connected for more than 15 minutes. The really strange thing is I'll show full antenna strength but it won't have any connectivity. My 5s has no issues - and it has been upgraded to ios 8. So I think it is a hardware thing.

Had my iPhone 6 replaced today at the Southlake,store. Store opened at 10 and I was gone by 10:30am. There was an hardware issue with my phone.

Having same problem iphone 6 dropping wifi. Obviously it came with ios8 hhowever this is the only device experiencing this issue we have an iPad air, two iPad 2, and two iphone 5s in the house all running iOS 8 and non of them have the issue. I have but infinity with the infinity home hub 5.

I took mine down to the Apple store and of course, it was working just fine on their wifi. I'm thinking that it's gotta be something with the antenna because at home I'm able to see the router if I'm standing next to it. Move 50 feet away and it drops out. My ipod touch, rock solid. So I don't think it's an OS issue.