iOS 8 Wi-Fi problems

OK. I have been holding off on sending this message until 24 hours have passed. The suggestion below appears to have solved my iPad Air connectivity to the 5Ghz network (I never had a problem with the 2.4 Ghz network). Just make sure you do the two-finger reboot after making this setup change. Hope this helps!

Disable a Wi-Fi System Service Setting

If resetting network settings did nothing for you, you may want to experiment with toggling off a wi-fi system setting. MacRumors reports that some users have had a positive impact by disabling this setting, though it’s not entirely clear what exactly this specific setting controls (it is possible it’s a wi-fi based geolocation service, hence why it’s in Location Services settings).

Head to the Settings app, go to “Privacy” and then to “Location Services”, where at the bottom you will find “System Services”, then flip the switch to disable Wi-Fi Networking. This does NOT turn off wireless networking in iOS.

Then try and join the network again, some users report this to be a success.

The issue I had with iOS 8 and iPhone 6 was very slow wifi download speeds. I used my iPad 3 and my wife's 4s to baseline and got 15 Mbits/s down / 10 up on on both devices. With the iPhone 6 I saw about 3 down / 10 up. If I reset network connections or forgot my wifi connection and reconnected I got 25 down/ 10 up. However after about 15 mins I was back to 3 down. My router does not have the ability to change frequency bands, but I was able to change the default encryption from WEP to WPA2 and I'm now seeing 25 down / 10 up consistently. It took me about 2 hours to update the 10 other wifi devices on my network but well worth it to have the iPhone 6 blazing through downloads.

Hopefully this his works for some of you before iOS 8.1 is here.

Apple Insider says it's out and fixes the Wifi problem.

http://appleinsider.com/articles/14/10/20/apple-releases-ios-81-with-apple-pay-s upport-for-iphone-6-6-plus-sms-relay-and-icloud-photo-library

I cannot get it yet, but let's see.

I have mentioned in a previous post that completely factory resetting my router (Netgear D6300) seemed to have done the trick for me.

This seems to have been the only permanent solution.

Now, im not sure if its just sheer luck that after restoring, and again setting up my network as i usually do and reserving IPs over DHCP, setting SSID etc.

My wife and i are both using iphone 6+'s and both have had seamless 5Ghz connection since the restore (about a week ago)

Updated this morning to 8.1 (using iTunes & OTA) and both devices are still working fine and getting speeds of over 90Mbps down 35Mbps up. No drop outs or slowing.

Quite disappointed with apple on this one. Although our Wifi has been working fine since last week, i have just been keeping an eye on the forum to see if its helped other users; not looking so good 😟

The above mentioned may not be the best solution, but hopefully works for some.

So it seems after updating my devices (Iphone 6 and Ipad Air) to iSO 8.1 that all seems well again with Wifi. Speeds as well as connection is sustained. I will continue to monitor the update and keep all posted in the event their is a change.

So it seems after updating my devices (Iphone 6 and Ipad Air) to iSO 8.1 that all seems well again with Wifi. Speeds as well as connection is sustained. I will continue to monitor the update and keep all posted in the event their is a change.

iOS 8.1 seems to have fixed my WIFI issues as well. I put both my iPad Air and iPhone 5S on 5GHz and they're both flying. No freezing, no dropping. 2.4GHz didn't freeze...but good Lord it was sloooow...so I'm relieved they finally addressed the issue -- or at least in my case.

It appears that 8.1 solved the iPad Air 5Ghz net connectivity issue; solid for two days +. I'm back to all original setup options on the iPad and my router prior to the iOS 8 "upgrade" fiasco. Internet download and up to the service provider are back to where they were before, as well. I don't see one reason why the new iOS is BETTER for me in any way over iOS 7.

Will not update iOS again for a long while; and if I have to, I'll let others test drive it before I get in (fool me once, fool me twice ....).

That's over and out ...

Had a weird WiFi funkiness on my iPhone 6 with iOS 8.1 last night. Couldn't get to App Store or Network Speed Test, but Safari worked a little. Tried everything I could think of to fix it:

- Power-cycled wireless router.

- Disconnected from wireless and reconnected to remake network profile.

- Turned both WiFi and Airplane mode on and off.

- Power-cycled iPhone.

- Reset network settings.

Finally, tried a full restore install via iTunes, which I couldn't start since "find my phone" was on. Couldn't turn "find my phone" off until turned off WiFi. Luckily cellular data was still working, so could turn off "find my phone" that way. Did restore install of 8.1, then after that restored apps and settings from a working backup. All good now. Don't like having to waste all that time, but glad that WiFi is working again.

I realize that people are having a lot more frustrating stuff going on with WiFi than this if they're buying different phones, but I thought that I'd throw this one out there in case it helped anyone.

When I first read your idea about Angry Birds, it sounded crazy... then I tried it, and I'll be ******. In my case, it's Angry Birds Seasons. I can run a speedtest, and it is fast. Then I open and play angry birds seasons for a minute or two, and re-run the speedtest. My results drop from 50 mb/sec to 6 mb/sec. Amazing. Close the app, and it's relatively normal again. ***.

All,

I tried the escrge 1843 method (iPad Air 2 WiFi Connectivity Issues: RESOLVED) last night and it definitely made things a lot more stable but speed was affected. My usual Speedtest app gives me 50 Mbs Down but after setting the networks to 5ghz - A only and 2.4ghz to B/G the maximum I was able to achieve was 25 Down.

Even after sleep and wake for several hours two out of three devices (IPad Air 2 and 5S) remained connected but unfortunately my iPhone 6 Plus which was behaving better on the previous 5ghz setting lost connection this morning and I had to toggle Wi-Fi on/ off.

So in summary this method is the best temporary fix to date (especially for Linksys/Cisco routers) albeit not perfect for all IOS devices in the same household.

I'm definitely going to buy the new ASUS AC68 router which I think will solve the problem as I'm hearing good reports from numerous sources!

i previously reported that my iPad air would lose its connection to my 5GHz wifi network after a few minutes and not reconnect. the 2.4GHz network worked fine. Happy to report that iOS 8.1 fixed the problem for me.

It's been about a day since I installed 8.1.1 on my iPhone 6, but, so far, Wi-Fi seems to be considerably more stable and faster. I'm not sure if it will last, but, thus far, it's definitely better than previous versions of iOS8.x . For those of you on previous versions, it couldn't hurt to upgrade and give it a shot.

IMO, the wifi issue is definitely something caused by the interplay of IOS 8+iDevice HW and certain routers. I can report 8.1.1 did NOT fix the problem with my iPhone 5S wifi. I have a Linksys EA3500 router (dual band N). When the 5S was on IOS 7 it had no wifi issues, but upgrading to IOS 8.x (and future updates) resulted in the 5s being very unstable with wifi. The problem is always the same. Somewhere between an hour and 24 hours, the phone will stop communicating with the router. It will show wifi, but just hangs as if it's not connected and eventually times out--- and it will stay that way unless I toggle the phone's wifi or reboot the router.

Believe me when I say, I've tried every "fix" from every board on both the phone and the router.

iphone: tried every suggested setting tweak I could find, did a clean reinstall etc. No help

Router: Ditto, plus FW update, linksys tech support. No help.

The ONLY solution for me has to been to add my old Linksys WR54G router as a dedicated access point for the my 5s. All my other iDevices (Air2, wife's 5 and mini) work just fine on the EA3500 as do my other devices (laptops, streaming devices, printer). As a test, I even configured the EA3500 to act exactly like the problem free WR54G but the 5s continues to exhibit the wifi problem with the EA3500. I had hoped 8.1.1 would fix it. Worked fine last night on the EA3500, but the wifi again hung up this morning. Back to the WR54 for the 5s.

So there you are. It's IOS 8 vs your router. Some tweaks, phone or router, might fix your problem -- as has been reported. It depends on your router and/or iDevice model. Or every tweak possible may not help at all -- as has been reported. Again, depends on your router and/or iDevice model.

I reported this Apple in early October. It amazes me that Apple cannot figure this out.

This is interesting. I wonder if there are hardware differences that cause only certain iPhones of the same model to be affected by wifi issues. My affected devices were both of the 5s variety, one Sprint and one Verizon (connecting through AT&T MVNO Consumer Cellular). Problems vanished with 8.1.1. See my previous posts for additional detail (first was on p.78 or 79 of this thread).