slow wifi after ios 8 and ios 8.0.2

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slow wifi after ios 8 and ios 8.0.2

After updating my iPhone 5s to iOS 8 and iOS 8.0.2 the wifi started going slow.

I tested my Xbox 360, Mac Book Pro, iPad 2, iPod tough (1st gen), brother's iPhone 4, mother's iPhone 4s, and many devices that can connect to wifi to see if my wifi was the issue, but it was not. My iPhone 5s is the only device having issues with my wifi going slow.

I've also tested my friend's wifi at their house and i still have the same problem.

I've restored my phone (two times), disconnected wifi from my phone, reseted network settings and all settings on my iPhone, changed my wifi's password (multiply times), disconnected router and internet modem (for 10s, 1min, 10min, 30min, and 1hr). I've done what all I can and ran out of ideas.

I haven't gone to the genius bar because I don't have much time.

If anyone has an idea or so of what I can do. I will appreciate your time in sharing it.

Thank you for your time.

iPhone 5s, iOS 8, Super slow wifi.

Posted on Oct 6, 2014 6:26 PM

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Oct 7, 2014 10:00 AM in response to kevin21333

Verizon 5S here, also experiencing slow wifi on iOS 8.0.2.

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Oct 7, 2014 7:26 PM in response to kevin21333

Same issue and I went to the Genius bar and followed all their steps. I'm assuming I'll keep having to restart once a day (or two) until I get a 6.

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Oct 7, 2014 8:59 PM in response to Nerfman850

What are some of the steps they told you to do?

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Oct 7, 2014 9:22 PM in response to kevin21333

Kevin, the lady at the Apple store told me to do this:

1. Back up to iCloud.

2. Settings > General > Reset > Reset All Settings

3. Wait for restart

4. Restore from iCloud

5. Settings > General > Reset > Erase All Content and Settings

6. Restore from iCloud

Nothing changed because when I got home it started doing the cycle again: 4G LTE > WiFi symbol strength full > WiFi symbol strength at nothing > 4G LTE...repeat.

So, I restarted and have to one or two times a day. Now please note that I do keep my phone on all night because my wife and I cut the cord on our land line. That could be a small part of the issue but doesn't explain the WiFi issue. Also, I have to do it at my office sometimes because I'll have emails show up on my laptop but not on my phone. I'm hoping that 8.0.3 or whenever ApplePay rolls out will solve the issue.

Chris

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Oct 8, 2014 1:57 PM in response to Nerfman850

This did help....but for like an hour or so.

But thanks. This sure did help a bit.

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cjl8651

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Oct 9, 2014 12:55 AM in response to kevin21333

I hope Apple fixes this soon. I've tried everything.....reset router, reset network settings, reset iPhone 5s and iPad Air. Made sure router was on WPA, turned that location thing off. Absolutely nothing works. It's got to be a problem with iOS. Every other non-Apple/non-iOS 8 device has absolutely no problems with the wifi. My 1st generation iPod Touch that's still on iOS 5.1.1 has better connectivity than my iOS 8.0.2 devices. This problem is absolutely infuriating.

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ihawk

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Oct 9, 2014 4:24 AM in response to kevin21333

i've been having to hard reset my phone everytime i came home and used my home's wifi but today, what i've done is to connect my 5S and iPad Mini to the 5GHz band of my router. It seems to work and wifi access from my devices are back to normal speed.

will monitor it though.

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Oct 9, 2014 10:49 AM in response to ihawk

I've tried to use i, and it does work great. But idk why my phone disconnects from the wifi everytime I set it down for a moment.

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Oct 9, 2014 11:32 AM in response to zeffrafael

Going into settings and resetting the Network Prefs seems to have solved *my* problem (Verizon 5S, iOS 8.0.2) however I'm unsure why yours has wifi problems. Would you happen to have any apps that track your data usage that may install profiles on install?

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Oct 9, 2014 11:53 AM in response to zeffrafael

What kind of apps would do that?

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Oct 9, 2014 12:11 PM in response to kevin21333

Onavo has messed with my LTE and wifi before, I've stayed away from similar apps ever since.

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Oct 9, 2014 12:42 PM in response to kevin21333

I have the same problem with an iPhone 6 and 8.0.2. I did a speed test against my old 4S running 7.0 and my laptop. My laptop clocked 45 Mbps down, the 4S clocked 35 Mbps down and the iPhone 6 on iOS 8 clocked a dismal 1.09 Mbps down. Doing a hard reboot netted 41 Mbps down on the iPhone 6, but then the next test it was 14 Mbps and a third test in a row netted 0.11 Mbps down.

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ihawk

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Oct 9, 2014 5:33 PM in response to kevin21333

Same here. I noticed that after a period of non-usage, the wifi might drop and when i wake up the phone, it is on cellular only.

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ihawk

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Oct 10, 2014 5:20 AM in response to ihawk

Ok, using the 5Ghz band off my router didn't last long. Wi-Fi browsing is slow again and I had to hard reset the phone to get things back to normal speed. Can't wait for 8.1 then.

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Oct 10, 2014 5:34 AM in response to kevin21333

I have the same problem .. for me its like no speed in browsing at all. is this permanent ??

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