Spinning wheel next to WiFi on iPhone

Tried this. Only a temp fix for me

Now out of nowhere, the spinning wheel vanishes And my battery life is dramatically better. ***?

This worked. Thanks so much!!

Did this suggestion awhile ago and is still working for me!

Hey iv done this with my iPhone 6 and it’s doung work do you have any other suggestions

Same issue with iPhone 6 and Congstar.

Fixed (up to now) by pressing sleep/ wake button to switch off, waiting some minutes, pressing sleep/ wake button to switch on again.

I don't know wether it resolves the problem permanently.

Hi I am having the same issues, updated my software, nothing running, and the spinning wheel in the top left just doesn't stop. I have done all the reboots, and even wiped the phone and did a full restore.

Same issue here and whoever said it’s a small # of people-how would they know?! I did a forced restart and it seems to work but 24 hours later it’s back. Yeah I need to upgrade this phone but with garbage like this am re-thinking the $800+ spend.

ndg1 wrote:

I force restart the phone its ok and then comes back. went to the store they said to do a full restore which i did and its still happeneing.

Take it back and COMPLAIN to the store manager.

belindathebee wrote:

Just read on another forum to activate Siri. Strangely, this worked.

Apparently it is a widespread bug...updating to IOS 11.0.2 didn't fix it.

It is neither widespread nor a bug. It's a problem that some users are experiencing.

Philly it is a bug and it is widespread. Stop acting like you know it all. Just because YOU aren’t experiencing the problem doesn’t mean it isn’t one. It’s an obvious glitch in the new iOS people are having. I have had an iPhone since 2010 when he iPhone 4 came out. I’ve had EVERY iOS since then and every update as well as many different model iPhones since then. I’ve NEVER had this issue with any iOS or any phone, until I upgraded to iOS 11. So one you are wrong, and two don’t give people bad info saying it isn’t a bug or glitch or whatever you want to call it.

Iphone 8plus on VZW. Spinning wheel started yesterday. Restetting the network fixed it for a day then came back. the problem with that is it clears all your saved wifi passwords. Haven't tried the siri trick yet.

I experienced the same annoying issue... and after resetting network settings, it went better for an hour... and started again, draining battery fast. I disabled the "background apps + automatic updates of Appstore"... nothing.

Then I realized that I had been doing IOS updates OTA and I remembered that in the past, it was explained that OTA updates are like an "onion" OS... which means, layer above layer after each update, slower and sometimes with more bugs than "clean IOS".

--> I did a backup of my iPhone... i downloaded IOS 11.0.3 IPSW and typed "restore"... to do a FULL RESTORE.

After restart... just restore from backup... and your IOS is clean. It works and it's been a few days that I can finally enjoy IOS11 properly. Hope this helps you. Remember that OTA updates are quite convenient, but for a major release update like from 10 to 11... a full restore is sometimes better and needed.

You are welcome. Version 11.1 is in beta5 as well... to solve other issues.

You can register for free as beta tester (at your own risks) as after beta5, usually you are close to final GTM release... I did personally, because it claims to improve battery life even more.

rem: I know... I did it OTA... which means that within a few updates, I will redo a clean restore ;-)