iPhone 8 keeps dropping Wifi
Jan 5, 2020 | 3:25 am
#1
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iPhone 8 keeps dropping Wifi
This just started happening a month ago and it only drops the wifi connection at my workplace. At home it just auto connects with no problems and never drops. Also works fine with hotel wifi. It's just at work.
Tried restarting the phone but it didn't help. Any ideas?
Tried restarting the phone but it didn't help. Any ideas?
Jan 5, 2020 | 3:37 am
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This just started happening a month ago and it only drops the wifi connection at my workplace. At home it just auto connects with no problems and never drops. Also works fine with hotel wifi. It's just at work.
Tried restarting the phone but it didn't help. Any ideas?
Tried restarting the phone but it didn't help. Any ideas?
No problems with home wifi, but it would just start dropping repeatedly (with just a couple minutes of inactivity) with hotel wifi.
My wife's Iphone 8 had no such problem at the same hotels.
I recently got X and those problems have disappeared.
Starting to wonder if these Iphones have very short shelf lives where you're bound to start having weird inexplicable issues after ~1.5yrs of ownership. Mind you, I'm not at all tech-savvy.
Jan 5, 2020 | 5:49 am
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Is it possible there's been an upgrade of your wireless infrastructure at work? I've heard (anecdotally) that Apple products have trouble with some of the more recent Atheros-based wifi chipsets used in newer routers and access points, but work fine with Broadcom. And it's more often that 5GHz is an issue than 2.4GHz; if you have the option of selecting between the two at work, try connecting to the 2.4GHz network. This may mean you'll have to make your phone "forget" the 5GHz SSID.
Jan 5, 2020 | 7:21 pm
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I had to use the "forget network" feature to fix this before, not sure why it happens. All of a sudden I couldn't connect to my home network with no explanation. I wish Apple made it easier to manage saved WiFi networks like on Android and Windows.
Jan 7, 2020 | 12:08 pm
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Whether the issue is the phone, the router, the ISP or a combination of those does vary for me.