Updated my 6s and now my WiFi speeds are at a crawl mostly under 25mbs in the same room as a laptop getting 75mbs download speeds.
I’ve done a Forced Restart
Toggled WiFi on/off
Forgotten WiFi networks
Reset WiFi networks
Turned off Location Services
Etc etc etc
The only thing I have done is reset the entire phone 📱
Anyone else reporting these issues?
Try connecting to WiFi on the 5 GHz band instead of 2.4 GHz if your router has the option. This worked for me.
I had this same problem since I upgraded to iOS 11 on my iPhone 6S Plus. I tried everything suggested except for a full restore.
I was connected to my router via the 2.4 GHz band when having the problem. I would get >50 Mbps on my Macbook but <1 Mbps on my iPhone when running a speed test.
I instead connected my iPhone to my router's 5 GHz band and have consistently been getting >50 Mbps on my iPhone now and have had no problem with WiFi on iOS 11 since switching bands.
I hope this helps all of you.
Same here. Definite iOS bug. Tried everything else and nothing seems to work. Using brand new synology rt2600ac router too so it aint that. My mbp gets around 500/500mb up/down whereas my iPhone X gets 40/200 from same exact spot/network (5G). Nonesensical.
This is happening for me as well -- both on my iPhone 7 Plus with iOS 11, my wife's iPhone 6 with iOS 11, and now both of our iPhone X's have the same issue!
On our phones, WiFi speed is about 6mbps download. We're standing right next to the iMac which is getting 75mbps download.
I've tried everything --- no luck. It seems like the phones are the only pieces of hardware in the house that have this issue -- why???
I know what the issue is. And sadly nobody can fix it. When Apple rolled out that software that allows Low Power Mode, it’s screwed up a whole bunch of stuff on phones. Slow down performance, WiFi speed‘s as well as throttled performance of applications loading and closing as well as refreshing in the background. It’s not just a battery issue that needs to be addressed, Apple has intently forced us to update our phones in order to make us think that our phones are obsolete and unusable. I was running iOS 9 before I updated to iOS 10.2.1 and my Wi-Fi worked outstandingly perfect. The moment I updated my Wi-Fi connection Was forced to a slow crawl. I have to sit in the same room with my WiFi close to 2 feet away from it before I can get a full strength signal. If I walk even has so far as 12 steps away I immediately drop to one bar. Let’s not talk about walking 20 steps away; at that point in time I’m forced to stay in 4G/LTE mode. After I’ve updated to iOS 10.2.1 I was forced to pay for an unlimited data plan because the Wi-Fi at home does not ******* work.
My mail takes a good 30 seconds to check all 5 accounts on wifi and bout 8 seconds on LTE. Wifi hangs and is slow. UNACCEPTABLE...By the way, yes, I did the iOS11.02 update
how are you checking the speed? Lets all be on the same page when it comes to checking....
Using same servers through SpeedSmart and Speedtest apps to test. Check while devices are near each other.
Sad to report, same behavior again on iPhone 7 Plus. It’s just too erratic, when compared to both our iPads.
Will just have to be patient for fix.
I tried turning WiFi Networking off then back on with my iPhone 6 iOS 11.0.3 and it’s still running at half speed.
Same with iPad Air 2 on iOS 11.0.3
I also have the same issue i resetted my phone and everything forget network setting and reboot modem toggled wifi also but it seems to still be like this when i turn off my wifi and speed test my mbps is regular which is 15mbps but when i turn on the wifi it immediately goes back to 8mbps so that was when i figured out it was my phone i checked my apps but i wasnt downloading anything and nobody was home at the time but me
It may be slightly better but the speed is noticeably slower than my wife’s 6. Sage phone
Def something to do with the speed in which the WiFi connects.
I will admit my phone has much more use than my wife’s. She is mainly on her iPad.
Also, why can’t I scroll the mail while it’s trying to connect? It doesn’t become live for 8 seconds
But what software is different between the 6 and the 7 phones? It has to be a wifi driver right? Or the older wifi chip software... I wonder which wifi chip we have, the qualcom or the other one...forgot which manufacturer.
I have the Qualcomm on my 7 Plus.
All I know is, on iOS 10 the 6 Plus got full WiFi speeds consistentry. It can get full speeds at times now, but seems to revert to slower speeds for some unknown reason. Something is conflicting. I’ve done everything, including replacing router/modem.
I will try that but that’s not a real world setting. To have to toggle that every time I leave a hot spot is unreasonable.
It’s not handing off....
Hey I wonder if handoff has something to do with it
I’ll try this later on my wife’s 6 Plus, but you’re right not a real world setting.
It’s odd that my 7 Plus is fine now after resetting it. The 6 Plus, even after reset, no go. Going to keep messing with it tonight, but has to be software related. Never happened on iOS 10.
I can confirm that turning off cellular data makes the mail app more responsive from the start. I can scroll the already loaded emails while it checks in the background.
It’s still rather slow checking. Let me check with speeed test and also my wife’s phone
ios 11 slow wifi speeds
