iOS 8 Wi-Fi problems

Finally, my iPad Air + BT wifi is working fine again!!! 8.1 fixed the issue. Previously, my wifi would drop, or slow down. You have to exit the app for it to pick it up.

iOS 8.1 solved my problems with my iPad Air and Timecapsule. Was a nighttmare but now after 2 days with no problems I'm more comfortable

Wow ....Thank you so much ....This actually works !!!!!

I've logged into my router and changed the wireless mode to b instead of n and now it works like the IOS 7 days.

Thank you so much !!!! 😀

I had the same problem on the devices I updated through wifi, a restore as new, then restore of my iCloud back up fixed the issue. 🙂

Hey elcpu, I updated to 9 and it is good here also, no more drops Thanks for all your help

Same situation on my 5s. Whilst poking around I went to Privacy / Location Services / System Services & disabled WiFi Networking. That was about 3 hours ago & I've not seen that stupid spinning wheel yet. This would be the the longest I've gone without resetting Network Settings since updating.

This worked for me for both my iPad 2 and iPad Mini. Don't have an iPhone.

Go to: Your WiFi Network

Click on: WiFi Settings

Delete your DNS settings.

Change DNS setting to Google's: 8.8.8.8 If you don't want to use Google's DNS....Try: Open DNS settings: http://www.opendns.com/ This works as well but not as fast as Google.

Give it a moment to activate and Voila it worked for me for the last 5 hours. You may have to restart or turn WiFi on and off if it doesn't activate within a minute or two.

Please let me know if this works for you.

Thank you!

I actually discovered this was a firewall issue. I use pfSense for my home firewall and I have Snort installed. Snort was flagging the iPhone 6 for a DOUBLE DECODING ATTACK for every website I visited and blocking access to that site from the iPhone. Here's what I could find about this error:

http://www.aldeid.com/wiki/Snort-alerts/http_inspect-DOUBLE-DECODING-ATTACK

This appears to be a common false positive, but it is not triggered by my iOS 7 devices or my Macbook. I hope this does not happen as I'm traveling when I have no choice what firewall is being used.

Hi guys, i've been experiencing the same wifi problem with my iphone 5s since upgrading to ios 8, and now my iphone 6 is the same.

Been trying all the solutions here (reset network, restore phone, set up as new, turning off wifi networking, etc), but the problem keeps getting back in no time.

Here is what i've been doing, and it seems to work fine with all my iDevices using iOS 8:

- Whenever you are using WiFi, turn off your "mobile/celluar data", and make sure your "bluetooth" is also off.

- Or you can simply turn "Airplane Mode", then turn your WiFi back on. (but this option will make you cannot receive phone calls/sms)

That solution has been working for me for 3 days, just remember to turn your mobile/celullar data back if you dont have WiFi connection anymore.

It looks like WiFi Connection cannot be working with Celullar Data at the same time. Is it related to apple's so called "seamless Wi-Fi Calling"?

Let's hope apple fix this soon!

Interesting that there seem to be a variety of 'solutions'. I've just retested mine: if I set the 5GHz link to back auto channel it sets to channel 48 and the problem returns; if I set it to fixed channel 46 it's OK. It's all OK at 2.4GHz channel 1 (auto).... but we all have different routers etc.

Hello All,

All the users who are seeing issue with Wi-Fi after upgrade to iOS 8, follow the below instructions :-

Navigate to Privacy - Location Services - System Services ( at the bottom ) - WiFi Networking.

By default Wi-Fi Networking will be on .. turn it off.

It worked for me, hope it will work for you all too.

OK, I have now reset my iPad2 to v 7.1.2

It was easy, see this link http://www.idownloadblog.com/2014/09/20/how-to-downgrade-ios-8-to-ios-7-1-2/

All the issues I had are now resolved.

However, despite backing my iPad up in iTunes (I foolishly assumed it would be an exact mirror) I lost all my Safari desktop icons (I prefer them there to bookmarks) and have had to reload various personalised things such as keyboard shortcuts, I have a Navionics app for sailing, all the saved features were gone.

Setting back to v7.1.2 in fact seems to give you a factory default computer but it didn't take long to reload Mail, Safari Bookmarks, iBooks, Notes and Adress book etc

In my case it was well worth doing.

I have the same exact issue. Happens with my iPhone 5 and iPad Air... every time I hook these up to power outlet, my entire home network comes to a stop (iDevices + PC + Mac lose internet connectivity in spite of full router signal strength).

Yep. This is the exact problem I had. Searching for solutions is how I found this thread.

If my iPhone is plugged in, connected to wifi, and the screen off, the entire home network slows to a complete halt. The router light for the wifi network the phone is on goes crazy. Pull the power out or wake up the phone and the network comes back to life instantly.

I tried the solutions in this thread just in case they were related. No success. My workaround was to disable iCloud Backup. Fixed the problem instantly. Not happy with it, but I can live with manual backups till a fix is hopefully released.

One point to note, I don't think it is iCloud sucking up bandwidth. iCloud backup wasn't actually running at the time on my phone, at least not that I could see. Secondly I looked at my routers stats and during the slow down essentially no data was being passed to and from the internet. It was like the iphone was screwing up the internal network to the point that it would freeze up, but it wasn't actually doing anything.

I don't think this problem is the same one that people are mainly talking about here though.

For a limited time Apple will allow you to downgrade to 7.1.2. Hurry, do not wait.

See brownox second post here:

Are there known problems with hdmi screen display and iOS 8?

and

http://www.gottabemobile.com/2014/09/17/downgrade-ios-8-to-ios-7/

Both of my iPhone 5c and iPad 2 running on iOS 8 affected. My router is on 2.4 Ghz and is still slow. Until I decided to downgrade it to iOS 7.1.2 again. Now it works like a charm, i've only tried this on the iPad.