How's your wifi working on your 5S? Mine seems to be very finicky and is always switching between wifi and LTE. My iPad has no problem and neither does my mom's 4S. Anyone else notice similar wifi issues?
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5S wifi issues?
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Both me and my wife's phone has been acting up ever since iOS 7. I initially thought it was my 5s, but found out it's both phones (she has a 4s).
The status bar will show that we are still connected to wifi, but once in a while weird things will happen. An iMessage won't send, unable to update fb status, an email won't send, a pic on twitter won't load, etc. But as soon as I disable wifi in control center, and/or turn it back on & send LTE or wifi again, data will send. Weird.
Again, I don't know if it's iOS 7, my Linksys router or what. It's just odd that it started outta nowhere after updating both iPhones (5s & 4s) to iOS 7.
The status bar will show that we are still connected to wifi, but once in a while weird things will happen. An iMessage won't send, unable to update fb status, an email won't send, a pic on twitter won't load, etc. But as soon as I disable wifi in control center, and/or turn it back on & send LTE or wifi again, data will send. Weird.
Again, I don't know if it's iOS 7, my Linksys router or what. It's just odd that it started outta nowhere after updating both iPhones (5s & 4s) to iOS 7.
My 5s doesn't seem to pick up wifi signals as easily as my 4S did. There are a few rooms at home and at work where I got wifi on my 4S that I don't on my 5s. Not a huge deal since LTE is so fast.
Hmm, so it seems that some 5S's are fine while others are not. I've had 2 5S's so far and both have had crappy wifi but I'm about to go and get yet another 5S so we'll see how that one does.
Edit: It just did it again. Didn't even move my position and it switched from full bars of wifi to 2 bars of LTE and can no longer find the wifi network.
Edit: It just did it again. Didn't even move my position and it switched from full bars of wifi to 2 bars of LTE and can no longer find the wifi network.
My 5 had issues until I changed my router encryption to WEP. I'll report back on my 5s when it eventually arrives!!
My 5S also has crappy wifi,where my old 5 would have two bars my 5S switches to LTE. Not a big deal to me.
This is what I've also noticed. Quite annoying since I'm on a tiered data plan and when it randomly switches to LTE I might not notice it and end up going through my monthly data allowance.
My wifi crapped out on me last night for the first time when I was attempting to upload a video. My iPad was right next to it and never lost the signal. Hopefully that was just a fluke and doesn't become a problem.