iOS 8.0.2 wifi issue

i'm in Australia, with an iphone 5s, and ever since ios8 and 8.02, my wifi has sucked. I've switched between 2ghz and 5ghz wifi and they both suck. might have to try a restore, but I doubt it'll work. hopefully Apple sorts this out soon, or at least acknowledges it!

After going through the hours-long restoration process on my 4s, there was no improvement. I've turned WiFi off until an update is available. Luckily we're still on an unlimited data plan, though I see that many here are not.

On my iPad Air the wifi is ridicolously slow, and crashes more than often

my vpn isn't working, eIter. What strikes me most is the total lack of comments from Apple. I understand the embarassment, but this attitude could become suicidal in marketing terms.

i've been a loyal Apple addict for thirty years, since 1984. This could become my farewell to a longtime companion.

Yea, my wifi worked fine when I got my 6 plus, until I got home and synced it to my iTunes and it updated me to 8.0.2 then my wifi quit working, my apps starting crashing, and I have to refresh everything before it will work properly.

Though my Mac Pro works fine, my apple TV works fine, my wife says her laptop is fine, so I assumed it had to be the update.

Apple you need to get on this, you're a billion dollar company, so why can't you fix a minor bug issue?

My iPad Mini 2 has the same wifi problem. Internet speed is at 10-20% of the capacity and drops off every now and then. Battery life is poor as well (maybe 1/2-1/4 of what it was before). I restored it to factory setting at one point and then tried to free up as much space as possible on it too. But all effort so far not working. It really just feels like it's a piece of junk--all of this on a model that is barely 10 month old! What I don't seem to understand is why Apple had to push out a new IOS full of issues (and really serious problems too) ?! My old whatever IOS before this was working perfectly fine...

Just got my iPhone 6 Plus tonight and set it up. Wifi connection is 10%-20%. Not good.

in response to Jeep4Life

iphone 5s wifi is **** slow since I updated it to ios 8.0.2

It isn't my router because my laptop and PC are fine.

my wifi is working fine even on Samsung Galaxy s3. I am able to stream movie on you tube on S3 but not on Iphone 5s.

even whats up messages take long to download on iphone 5s.

I have tried the following on the devices and nothing has changed!

Turn Wifi on and off
Forget Wifi network add again
Reset Network Settings
Erase all content and restore from iTunes backup
Erase all content and restore as a new device- it will not let me do this! It keeps saying service isn't available

Change the network type to WPA Personal or Mixed WPA2/WPA -PSK. Save your changes. Reboot your router.

Try connecting to the network on your iPhone or iPad.

I am frustrated beyond belief! I shouldn't even have to try all these things and I'm even more frustrated the only way I can use my devices is by pulling from my Verizon cellular hotspot and use my data!

This needs to get fixed ASAP!

Apple basically broke what didn't need fixing, typical code tweaking just because they love change for the sake of change which is all iOS8 is. So annoyed with them. The problem lays squarely at the feet of apple and their useless update. We should not be their guinea pigs as iOS8 should be tested thoroughly before release. But they just want to have a new iOS rushed out to sell millions of phones as marketing ploy.Many bugs are brought up by testers for apple's attention and they just ignore them and go ahead and release iOS updates anyway. It's pointless as Apple is aloof and arrogant beyond belief. Dare I say it, but I think they are worse than Microsoft now. They cannot seem to do an update for anything these days without bugs cropping up (iTunes another example!)

I have an older WNDR3700 netgear router but it's still a strong router. Plus I have a Draytek Vigor configured as an access point and the wifi glitches happen on both. I dont have time to spend messing about with it all for hours on end. I also have enough connectivity to get by despite inexplicable throughput drops to under a quarter of normal speed which are frustrating (as is the slowness to pick up airplay devices on the phone). It's a joke and someones head should roll. iOS8 is full of other anomalies of bugs which I won't bore everyone with here. It's been a disaster.

I hope they will quietly fix it in iOS 8.0.3 or iOS 8.1 but am not holding my breath as they are ignoring the issue. I have sent feedback several times without replay and people's trips to genius bar or calls to support generally get met with 'This is first we have heard of it and attempts to blame the users hardware'. Unbelievable! People need to direct them back to the many forum complaints on here if they try to play dumb. I say hit them hard, plague them - maybe they might ackowledge

Ipad 3 with ios 8.2 getting continuing disconnect on wifi......unable to switch between 2.4 and 5 gig. No such problems with ios 7.

Turn off cellular data. if fixed for me finally.

Turn off Cellular data before connecting to WIFI. It fixed this problem for me. though it is a temporary sollution but worth it.

Anyone still having issues with all this bs, try this:

Start from scratch - do a restore to a new version of 8.0.2 using itunes.

It will ask if you want to backup your data, do so. go through the steps (and time) of wiping the idevice clean and then restoring your data. This finally worked for me after days of trying to resolve the issues with this upgrade on an iPad 3. I will not upgrade any other devices until they get their act together.

For those of you thinking its not affecting the majority of users no matter which idevice you have, keep your negative comments to yourselves; there are far too many people having issues for this to be a small minority of users.This is a complete debacle on Apple's part and it will continue to have users look elsewhere for their needs.

sparky, I did exactly what you said. Not helping.

I agree. I have been trying to use the calling over wifi and sometimes it shows that wifi calling is activated and some times it just disconnects and wifi calling get disabled. Driving me crazy!!

Tried everything. Different 5GHz channels, restored Asus router RT-N66U but still not working.

2.4GHZ is not a problem but I'd like my iPad Air to work on the 5GHz band as well.