iPhone 6 slow to zero data on wifi

I have set up 2 iPhone 6's and both when connected to wifi are pulling less than 1mb download and upload.

I have run the same speed test on my old iPhone 5 and it gets 25mb download and 15 upload.


All 3 phones are connected to the same wifi and sitting right next to each other when the test is run.


Does anyone have the same wifi problems or have any suggestions?

iPhone 6, iOS 8

Posted on Sep 20, 2014 3:04 PM

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Sep 21, 2014 8:13 PM in response to Benny-Joe-Bob

I tried resetting all network setting, resetting all setting, restoring from a back up, and restoring as a new iPhone. In every case wifi performance improves for a few minutes and then goes back to being unusable. This is incredibly frustrating considering every other device in the house--2 macs, iPhone 4s, apple tv, iPad--have no trouble.

Sep 23, 2014 6:32 AM in response to travisn321

I'm using the iPhone 5s and iPad mini with retina and I had the same issue with wifi on my iPhone 5s. I was able to solve this issue by SWITCHING OFF CELLULAR DATA by going to SETTINGS > CELLULAR. I figured the problem was related to cellular data as my iPad mini (wifi only) didn't have any wifi issues.


My guess is that iOS 8 has a few bugs with juggling between internet connections between cellular data and wifi due to new iOS 8 features such as continuity (which allows phone calls and text messaging to be made/received via iPad and MacBook) and VoLTE (which allows phone calls to be made via wifi and switch to cellular data seamlessly).


So my suggestion is to switch off cellular data whenever you're connected to wifi until Apple releases an update to solve this issue. I hope this helps anyone who reads this as it has helped me.

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