Q: iOS 8 Wi-Fi problems

OvidiusNaso,

The fix which I have in place is a temporary fix but works like a charm. I agree with you & will wait for an official patch from Apple soon.

Same wifi issues with my iPad Airs

Hi Mrcol,

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 too :-).

I have the same problem with Ipad Mini.  Worked perdectly until I installed iOS 8!  This is VERY annoying.  I hope Apple corrects this quickl.

Sorry, but there really are no useful comments here. There are a bunch of people who offer magic incantations without having the slightest clue of why they think these might work. They almost certainly didn't really test these. Only when it has worked for a considerable period of time can you claim some success. It is obvious that a restart is just as effective.

I Seriously doubt that any of these suggestions come from Apple engineers. Well, maybe they do. That might explain the pathetic quality of this release.

Honestly, there is zero excuse for a release this bad. Given that in any complex piece of software there are going to be some bugs. These are usually edge cases that only become exposed after lots of users really exercise the software. Software that essentially bricks a device out of the box just shows a complete disregard for their customers, and a complete and utter failure to carry out even the most basic functionality tests. Inexcusable. Even more inexcusable is telling customers that their hardware is broken, will they give refunds to those people taken in by this that throw away perfectly good devices, and spend large amounts of money to buy a replacement?

Their silence just makes matters worse.

Excellent and very well put.  One hopes that Apple isn't going the way of their competitors.  I am embarrassed for Apple...this is quite a let-down.  Be interesting what they do...at our expense and inconvenience.

Sadly I have focused my anger at Comcast and come to find out that it's this dang iOS 8. it would have been nice to have had a little heads up before half of Apple users downloaded this brick maker

I am having similar problems with 2 ipads & 2 iphones. This looks like Windows.

I am really mad.

I'm afraid Phillip's right. I've tried the vast majority of suggestions to get my devices (iPad Air and iPhone 5) to find the home wireless network, but none of them worked. None. The only thing I didn't try, because I don't speak router, is changing WEP to WPA or whatever -- but I did try virtually all of the other recommendations. None worked. It would appear the devices are just having trouble locating the home wireless, 'cause they both work at my office. Not sure if it's the kind of router I have (a MoCA thing provided by my cable company) or whether it's something else. Since so many other people are having the same problem, I don't see how it can just be my router. I love my Apple devices, despite this little fiasco, and even on its worst day, Apple's problems don't begin to rise to the standard set by Microsoft. Still, it's powerfully frustrating to have no answer on this yet, especially since there's obviously something very wrong.

I was having the same issue, although not as bad, it was still frustrating going from my 6+ back to my 5s just to watch some video clips or just browsing in general.

I attempted to restore network settings which seemed to help, but after a day of usage, it just slowed down again.

Today i came across some info on macrumors.com advising other with the same issue tried disabling the wifi in location services.

Privacy --> Location Services --> System Services.

After doing so, things seemed to have improved, but not getting the speeds i was expecting. Still an improvement.

Jumped on my router and changed the 5Ghz connection channel it from 36 (default) to the highest option i had 161.

Since doing so, i am now happy to advise that my down speed is averaging around 91Mbps and up at 23Mbps. which is about 3x faster than the speeds i was getting before (when it was working)

Im not sure if it was some sort of fluke, but its about an hour in of constant usage and so far so good.

I hope this help anyone else having the same issues.

have tried all the suggestions, none work at all... It just don't work. Need to be fixed by apple, hundreds of people having the same issue at once can't be coincidence.

i completely wiped my ipad and restored, hoping it would clear up all the update-caused issues.  didn't work either

apple sure screwed this up!

I posted that a restored my iPAd after initial upgrade. Then I did a DHCP lease renewal and it solved every problem....almost 24hrs without any new problem now. I had to update most app and only netflix had an issue solved by removing the app and downloaded again. I am happily back on track with my iPad2. I hope that helps....and BTW not at ll working for apple

don't know what a DHCP lease renewal is...

If you go to your wifi networks and select your current one, at the bottom you will see "Renew Lease"

Its the IP given by your router for that device. It just renews it.