Q: iOS 8 Wi-Fi problems

But  wait!  "iOS 8 has been the issue the whole time" and now some users are reporting the latest update fixed their problem! Which one is it and how can this be!?  Is it "selective healing software"!?

What is your criteria for 'many'

 

And you did note that I said, "some in this thread" or did you just choose to ignore that?

Certainly more than three. And here we go again, instead of concentrating on the technical content of my post, the fact that I agreed with you that “they are not deluding themselves” and the fact that I also agreed with your earlier post that “there is more than one cause / bug” you choose to reply in a insolent way as you have to others many times in the past  You can have the last word, have a great day… 

Why bother to rewrite what I said, I preferred it my way, especially when attributed to me.

You have no credibility here. You insisted repeatedly that iOS 8 had no Wi-Fi issues whatsoever. Now that Apple has spoken to the contrary your words are meaningless. Have a good day.

Now that Apple has accepted that there were issues with WiFi. I wonder why some people still continue arguing.

Why should anyone solve problem with 8.3?! If update of 8.3 created issue with some other people - it is again Apple's fault.

Its their responsibility to address issues.

Please do not create ANOTHER FLOOD of non-relevant posts.

I still have WiFi issues, even after update to 8.3 - I expect Apple to resolve it.

Now that Apple has admitted to ISSUES I request those who do not have issue OR do not have concrete solution please please do not continue to post and debate.

I also request moderators to take appropriate action. Please keep this thread clean and relevant. So that we can track it without reading several non-related posts everyday.

Thank you.

Well 8.3 hasn't fixed my wi- fi issues on 4S either. Typing this on my iPad which has always had solid wi-fi, while the phone is 2" away and currently searching for networks. It will occasionally find my home router, attempt to connect then it will disappear again and the search starts again. Have just restarted the phone an wi-fi now back again and connected.

I just updated my iPhone 4s to iOS 8.3 and, unfortunately, my wifi problem remains unsolved.

The wifi button remains greyed - I still cannot use wifi at all.

Quote London lad:-

Apr 9, 2015 2:53 PM 
  Re: iOS 8 Wi-Fi problems  in response to jscheurer      

8.3 seems to have provided fixes for all the problems I was having too.

So far:-

No password rejection at log on to a network.

No dropped wi-fi connexions or failed hand offs

No drop-outs when streaming audio by airplay

No massive speed drops

OK I thought it may be helpful to post a quick update now I've had a chance to run 8.3 for a while.

I have installed ios 8.3 on the following apple devices in my household: iphone 5s, 5c, ipad 3, ipad 4 and an apple TV.

As I have mentioned before I run a cluster of 4 Cisco professional wireless access points and have numerous other wireless computers and devices on the network.

Since the ios 8.3 install none of the apple devices have had any incidents of wi-fi password rejection, there have been zero incidences of the wi-fi connexion being dropped or failing to hand off from wap to wap and I can now conduct a Skype call and wander round the house being handed off from wap to wap just as I used to with ios 7. Speed tests run normally and consistently and are no longer influenced by having bluetooth or airplay enabled as they were with previous versions of ios 8.

I have tested my iphone 5s in a number of friends homes and offices where the bug previously caused problems with wi-fi and all seems to be back to ios 7 performance, i.e. working fine.

I have spoken to a number of other iphone / ipad users and also engineers at my workshops and they all say 8.3 has returned wi-fi to normal with one exception which is something I had noticed too; When ios 8 came out and the wi-fi problem first started, a symptom I encountered was an intermittent problem with starting an airplay connexion, airplay hanging, and jumping to another track after the hang was resolved by restarting airplay. I use airplay for audio-books everyday and this was a problem that started with ios8. I note that with ios 8.3 although this problem has improved and is now less frequent it's still not completely gone away and I have received the same reports from other users too.

I also notice a change in behaviour when playing audio-books via airplay, previous to ios8.3 you were able to close the music app while it was playing and then restart the same book or track from control centre without re-running the music app. Now if you do this control centre will start playing a seemingly random song rather than the book you were playing previously. Not a big problem but interesting in light of the remaining airplay problem.

With regard to people still encountering wi-fi problems, it crossed my mind that with all the nonsense 'cures' being suggested in this and other threads by people insisting there was no bug, it may be possible that some people could still be running 'odd' router wi-fi settings or 'odd' phone settings. I guess it's worth making sure that everything is set back as it was before ios 8 ?

8.3 did not fix wifi for me. I still randomly get periods of password rejection and failed connection for any of the access points in my house. Only my 4 iOS devices with 8+ have these issues. My 2 macbooks, pc laptops, various other devices do not. (Though 8.3 bricked my 3 week old mbpro - that's another issue)

edit: oops - I meant to say the parallel OS X release bricked my mbpro.

Tehyar wrote:

 

(Though 8.3 bricked my 3 week old mbpro - that's another issue)

How on earth did you install an IOS operating system on a Mac, no wonder it doesn't work right. Try installing OS X instead.

LOL yes, I meant the parallel OS X release.

Phew, I was wondering what to say next.

apple support contacted me weeks ago.  The emailed me a link to install some sort of log file.   They called me later to ask me 100 questions and I was very patience.   They could not see a problem on my wifes iphone 5 running ios 8.2 , The problem is sill here with IOS 8.3... This is a serious problem.  

lotust wrote:

 

apple support contacted me weeks ago.  The emailed me a link to install some sort of log file.   They called me later to ask me 100 questions and I was very patience.   They could not see a problem on my wifes iphone 5 running ios 8.2 , The problem is sill here with IOS 8.3... This is a serious problem. 

What in the world do you expect us to do for you?  Why don't you contact Apple for followup?

IOS 8.3 did NOT fix the wifi issue on my Iphone 4S. Did apple really tested this defect before having this updated in the release notes?

After the 8.3 update, still my phone loses wifi connection in seconds. I am getting frustrated every time after hopefully going for new IOS upgrade which doesn't resolve my issue. This is a serious problem which apple has to look to keep their customers happy and stay with apple.