Why does iOS 8.0.2 not resolve the issue of WiFi connectivity with iOS 8 and the new iPhone 6?

Ok, so I just got the i phone 6 for Christmas, and I had downloaded iOS 8.1.2 right when I got it. As soon as I used my phone, the internect connectivity from my house wifi kept disconnecting and reconnecting. This is very annoying. Please fix the issue. - Sincerely, An Apple User Since Day 1

Work around: I have a brand new iPhone 6 128gb which had same issue. I did the soft reset and reset network settings and still did not revolve issue. However I noticed the everytine the Wifi disconnected the GPS icon would show momentarily so I decided to turn off location services which did not fix problem. I then proceeded to turn off Find My iPhone in the iCloud settings and that fixed the disconnection. On turning back on Find My iPhone I decided to keep Send Last Location turned off and since then I have not had any Wifi disconnection.

Hi EmmaBenma9, check my response I added on 1st Jan 2015 on this discussion thread to resolve this disconnection issue.

Ever since updating my iPhone 5s to iOS 8 I have been having an issue where if I don't use the wireless for several hours, I can not connect to Internet sites even though I am connected to my home network. This behavior only occurs on my iPhone 5s. It doesn't happen on my two iPad 2's or my iPad 3 or my iPad air 2 or my wife's iPhone 6 plus. A workaround to the problem is to turn off the wireless and then immediately turn the wireless back on. After that the wireless works fine. This behavior has happened on other wireless networks besides my home network. After updating to iOS 8.1.1, the problem did not occur as frequently- instead of every few hours, it would be several days until the wireless connection dropped. However recently I am back to losing the wireless connection when the iPhone sits idle for a few hours.

Here is my story: I had 3 iphone 6's and none of them worked on wifi and the last one would not even receive voicemails. I tried every "reset", every "fix," every "workaround," every "troubleshooting tip" out there, and nothing helped. After about 2 months of struggle, I finally got a Samsung Galaxy S5. It was the best thing I have done in a long time. The Samsung has never messed up once and it is so much faster than my iphone 6. Please, Apple friends, do yourself a favor. Find a way to get rid of your iphone and go to Samsung. I didn't want to do it myself. I have been an iphone owner from the very beginning. But I couldn't keep torturing myself by looking for a holy grail fix that will never come. If at all possible, take my advice and free yourself from this insanity. You can get a good price for your iphone on itsworthmore.com.

Best wishes to you all

I Reply not because i have anything to collaborate, but because i have terrible wifi problems too, but i have 5s. The problem started with ios 8, the last version made it worse. I can't even go through websites or access links from facebook normally, it takes too long and then just stops loading the page. If i switch to 3g, no problem.

Ugh, i feel like there should not be this kind of issues anymore, not anymore.

I like everyone else here am having problems with my new I phone 6 plus, with newest update, dropping WiFi pretty much every 30 seconds. I too have tried all the suggestions without success. This just started happening a few days ago, but up until then no issues. However, I was at my sisters today and my phone connected and STAYED connected to her WIFI without an issues at all. Anyone have any ideas what changes I could make at home to my network connection? Router? I have read something about WEP/WPA2 -and it is already set to the suggested change. If anyone has anything to add to this I would greatly appreciate it

kikiandco4 wrote:

However, I was at my sisters today and my phone connected and STAYED connected to her WIFI without an issues at all.

I'm curious: is your sister's household a non-Yosemite and non-iOS8 household? I'm following this issue because I'm looking into solutions related to the Apple Wireless Direct Link (AirDrop, AirPlay, etc) changes in iOS8.

My hunch is that your connection was fine because there wasn't any other devices triggering AWDL by sending you AirDrop packets periodically.

I just wanted to piggyback off of the original question and to add my frustrations to the bunch. I just got my iPhone 6 Plus (128GB/8.1.2 update) a little over a month ago and I am experiencing a problem with my internet connectivity. Everything will be fine and then the phone will act like it just dropped all internet connection...wifi, safari, facebook, instagram, yahoo, email, etc. I did a search to see if others are having the same problem and what advice they had. Some of them said to switch it to "airplane" mode and back off again, power down and then restart, or totally disconnect from my wifi and then put the code back in. I even tried to turn off my wifi and see if the LTE works by itself, but it doesn't. I have had to restart my phone about 3-4 times. This is the only thing I am experiencing with my new phone. I never had this problem with my iPhone 5. Any advice? Thanks

gflexx wrote:

I just wanted to piggyback off of the original question and to add my frustrations to the bunch. I just got my iPhone 6 Plus (128GB/8.1.2 update) a little over a month ago and I am experiencing a problem with my internet connectivity. Everything will be fine and then the phone will act like it just dropped all internet connection...wifi, safari, facebook, instagram, yahoo, email, etc. I did a search to see if others are having the same problem and what advice they had. Some of them said to switch it to "airplane" mode and back off again, power down and then restart, or totally disconnect from my wifi and then put the code back in. I even tried to turn off my wifi and see if the LTE works by itself, but it doesn't. I have had to restart my phone about 3-4 times. This is the only thing I am experiencing with my new phone. I never had this problem with my iPhone 5. Any advice? Thanks

A preliminary thing we can check: Settings app -> Privacy -> Diagnostics & Usage -> Diagnostic & Usage Data contains all of your crash reports. There will be some-to-many irrelevant crash logs 🙂 but we may also find the same crash report coinciding with each time everything networking related breaks. Each report should be date and time stamped, to help you correlate with your outages.

Hi Kelly...thanks for the suggestion. Okay, I checked to see my list of crash reports and it is my Bill Minder. It only list the crash as of today...not this past weekend or weeks ago.

Well that is unfortunate. Have you tried Settings -> General -> Reset -> Reset NETWORK Settings? (My apologies for the caps; I fear assisting someone in resetting too much.)

Kelly...yes I have tried that. It was part of my original message about disconnecting wifi and putting everything back in.

Hi Kelly, forgive my lack of technology, I think you're asking if there are other i devices? If so, the answer is yes, imac, ipad, and iphone(s).

On a side note ... After speaking to the router company last night (who offered some suggestions) with issues still happening, more frequently in fact, I decided to reset settings today, and so far (fingers crossed) it has not dropped WiFi and its been a few hours

kikiandco4 wrote:

Hi Kelly, forgive my lack of technology, I think you're asking if there are other i devices? If so, the answer is yes, imac, ipad, and iphone(s).

On a side note ... After speaking to the router company last night (who offered some suggestions) with issues still happening, more frequently in fact, I decided to reset settings today, and so far (fingers crossed) it has not dropped WiFi and its been a few hours

I appreciate you following up on the question!

That is great news about the router settings. I hope you'll follow up again to let us know how it continues to fair.