ios 10.3.1 wifi & gps problems

I spoke to 2 Apple senior support managers across 2 continents for 4 hours who acknowledged that the issue was theirs but gave no resolution. I went out the next day and bought a basic Android for cheap and couldn't be happier. Not the ideal solution but saved me from much grief and insanity.

Been considering purchasing a different type of device as well. This situation is deserves some attention and very frustrating when there are this many issues and no formal response from Apple. At least Apple can say formal "that it is not and iOS problem". I'd at least be a bit more content.

I am having the same problems with my iPhone 6 for weeks here now. I've been talking to technical support for the past 2 weeks, and they are telling me they don't know whats wrong with the phone and are asking me to buy a new phone or deal with the GPS not working. This is ridiculous, does anyone know what I can do to get a new phone or my GPS fixed without having to pay for fees since it is not my fault the GPS is not working.

Ok so I had all those stupid problems for over a month and I went back and forth with apple and Verizon (my provider) and Verizon sent me 3 phones to try and replace my non working phone and the problem still happened. And we realized it was the phone and called Verizon again and they decided to send me a 6s free of charge I had just the regular 6 before that and low and behold... IT WORKS! Try talking to your provider and see if they will replace it since it is a software issue. Best of luck!

I have the same problem in my iphone 6, i hoped that 10.3.3 upgrade would solves this issue but continues. I cant use waze or any app with gps services and the wifi reception is very bad after the upgrade

Having same issue with one of my iPhone 6 with 10.3.3. I tested with few apps and send Phoebus able to lock GPS location but calculating wrong location.

My Wifi is also acting same as everyone here.

It seems for me issue started only after 10.3.3 not before that.

Wasn't having the issue with 10.3.1 or 10.3.2 but unfortunately, I recently updated my iPhone 6 to 10.3.3 and now I have weak wifi signal and no gps. Tried all of the suggestions such as resetting networking settings, erasing phone, toggling location services on and off etc. Also restored iphone several times to see if it works but no luck.

This is exactly what happened with my iPhone 6: updated to 10.3.3 and immediately lost gps function and had unstable and diminished Wifi function. I also performed the same actions of resetting, toggling, updating, restoring, several times. I also spent 2.5 hours "chatting" with multiple Apple Support personnel. They ran me through the same hoops without success. They're flummoxed. They "escalated" my case, but I haven't heard back from them.

I am with Verizon also and never had issues with GPS until this update. IMO the issues seems to be connected to network and wifi settings. For example, when I am on my wifi at home and Verizon wifi calling is active, location services on weather maps and my banking app which I need in order to make mobile deposits will not work. But when I am out and about and am on cellular network, the GPS and location services work just fine.

I have tried everything from resetting location services to resetting network services to a hard reset. Nothing has fixed the GPS issue when connected to wifi!!

Hey Deejay,

If you are experiencing these issues even after doing the restore, I would highly recommend updating your iPhone 6 to iOS 11.0.3 since apps are being configured to work with the most up to date version of software. As softwares become outdated, you see random bugs start to occur with devices and doing the update can resolve these issues a lot of the time.

Best of luck!

Steven

I have iPhone 6s with 10.1.1 miles phone works perfect my wife has iPhone 5s on 10.3.1 and hers does not work. This is on Apple but it's a growing issue as her phone worked fine 1 month ago and she has not done an iOS upgrade in a while

so its completely new phone. so obviously you cant say that as a fix. it is a replacement.

anyone here who got fix with this issue?
mine is having the same issue. dont know whether i should get it repaired or get new. both costs nearly same for me.

I read on another thread that it is not a software issue but a hardware issue. It would appear to be something to do with the antennae in the phone. If you are brave (I am not) you can replace it yourself apparently.

> The way I got my wifi to work in my house was by purchasing a wifi extender on amazon and setting that up. Wifi signal is at full strength now with the extender.

reader be ware! I tried one of these and forced a return: the extender only improved signal 1 bar only while standing 1 foot from the extender: but the signal QUALITY (ie, transfer rate) was not helped at all - only the strenth (with more errors). now note this is after a good hour or more of roof install with a helper. i returned the item immediately.

your iPhone works well if you fix it. do not buy an extender unless you live in a farming area and have always used an extender!

from what I'm reading the people above likely did not restore the phone to factory settings but thought they did: they likely restored their last backup (which had problems because of 3rd party software they'd been installing OR because the software simply does not work with IOS 11)

my advice is revert to 10.3.x if you need to use old applications

BTW: as i just learned: the iPhone 5c is a 32-bit cpu, the iPhone 6 is 64-bit (note this is a firm reason for compatibility issues with old software, as it is on any computer OS). Your wife won't be able to upgrade past 10.x because 11 is a 64-bit OS. This shouldn't effect facetime, but you never know what issues you might have between the two phones depending on what software and features you try to share between the phones.