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

iir definetely has to do with dinamic MAC adress generation. some routers dont like it and drop connections my main router distribuem IP adresses fine until IoS 8. now only AirPort Extreme routers Can Hanson it. apple please fix it !!!!

I am going back to iOS 8.0.0

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My older AirPort Time Capsule hasn’t been dropping connections. More importantly, at work an iPad 2 updated to iOS 8 isn’t having issues. There the access point is a couple-year-old Cisco unit and the router/gateway is powered by Ubuntu.

That proves nothing certain about a connection to dynamic MAC addresses. But if, as advertised, iOS 8 is using the hardware address once the device has joined the network, I’m not sure how dynamic MAC addresses would play a part in the problem.

i see your point. again I am only stating facts. the minute I began using my airport extreme base as a dhcp server it worked instantly with all my iOS 8.02 devices. my router wich previously did this is dropping address intermittently. so Imsuspect has to do with the MAC addresses generation in IOS 8.02. anyway I try to help.

Sure. I’m just trying to think it through. If the DHCP server was facing dynamic MAC addresses, nothing good would come of that. But I would think all DHCP servers would suffer equally.

It definitely is an odd problem.

Anyway, it seems the airport base stations deal appropriately with this. my router did not. which is still a problem apple has to fix. we cannot have only apple base stations only dealing with this. :-(

Same problem. Regretfully upgraded to 8.0.2 from 8.0.0 on my iPhone 6 and WiFi keeps disconnecting. Doesn't see any SSIDs once it disconnects and the only fix I see is to reboot the phone. Really irritating Apple.

Well, as I said, we’ve done extensive testing at work with the test update on an iPad 2, we’ve had no problems, and there are no Apple routers there. On that basis we are moving ahead with the rest of the devices—one at a time, of course, just in case. 🙂

Somebody has to fix the problem, certainly. In the meantime, it would be helpful to understand the where things are breaking down. Temporary solutions might be found that way.

I would be interested in knowing what happens when Wi-Fi is disabled and then re-enabled on the iPhone 6. No SSIDs makes it sound like the radio shuts off/is shut off by iOS.

Turning off WiFi and back on does nothing to reconnect. Simply searches for networks and never finds any.

I Also am having wifi issues on my iPhone 6, ipad 2 and fiancé iphone 5. All on iOS 8.0.2. what I have noticed with my 6 was that when it would finally connect to my wifi it would constantly use a deprecated ip from days ago. To test I set my router to 192.168.13.1 instead of 0.1 and my phone still retained a 0.0 range. I removed (forget network) the wifi, restarted the phone, airplane on/off, location off, set a static 13.10 and then back to dhcp and same old ip!! Meanwhile 4 other devices all working fine in the house. I went to a buddy's house, set his ssid to mine with a 10.10.10.1 range and my phone still used a 0.0 ip.. Maddening!! TThere is something very wrong with the update that was supposed to fix wifi 😟.. Apple? Cmon.. Fess up so u don't have millions of your faithful pulling their hair out looking for issues with their home networks!

Thank you. Having to restart the hardware rather than just the service sounds bad.

RichardX720 wrote:

There is something very wrong...

Agreed. So of the devices having problems, the iPhone 6 is alone is not getting a new IP address? Or are all the devices doing the same thing?

I don’t have an iPhone 6 yet (Plus, on order) so I can only test stuff with older hardware. I have to ask questions about the new stuff. 😊

Is this a serious response?

Having the same exact issue as everyone else, on my iPhone 6+... This is really getting annoying now, and I just pray that Apple resolves this issue real soon, before it starts eating up my data!!! It is one thing to have this issue, it is a whole other issue to have to pay for it! This issue is using up my cellular data, due to this dropped wifi connectivity, so let's get it together Apple! 😠 We need a real fix and soon!