And people thumbs me down when I say I plan to wait until 16.5. Thanks for beta testing though.
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iOS 16.1 Causing Random Wi-Fi Disconnects for Some iPhone Users
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I'm not even on 16.1, but each day I get more and more furious with Apple.
These days, since last update, it became a true nightmare when crossing the border for work, which I do every day. I already had to do the nice dance of having to change my carrier manually because it kept searching for my original one, and switch back to automatic when getting home (a 1:30+ hour drive in each direction) because of course why would it realize I'm back in my country and lost network half an hour ago. No, not painful enough. Now it's a miracle if it finds stable cellular within 20 minutes. And when I want to select the carrier I know is the fastest and to most stable, the list keeps changing its order just to troll me. It's so frustrating, and of course each time it loses the connection Apple Music stops, then skips songs like crazy only to halt until I get the network back, quit the app, and restart the playlist.
What a fracking mess Apple, get your sh*t together instead of sneaking adds in our bricks.
These days, since last update, it became a true nightmare when crossing the border for work, which I do every day. I already had to do the nice dance of having to change my carrier manually because it kept searching for my original one, and switch back to automatic when getting home (a 1:30+ hour drive in each direction) because of course why would it realize I'm back in my country and lost network half an hour ago. No, not painful enough. Now it's a miracle if it finds stable cellular within 20 minutes. And when I want to select the carrier I know is the fastest and to most stable, the list keeps changing its order just to troll me. It's so frustrating, and of course each time it loses the connection Apple Music stops, then skips songs like crazy only to halt until I get the network back, quit the app, and restart the playlist.
What a fracking mess Apple, get your sh*t together instead of sneaking adds in our bricks.
Yes, I’m so glad to see this article because I’ve been having these issues. It started happening IMMEDIATELY after updating to iOS 16.1. In fact, it’s made my Wi-Fi nearly useless. I did seem to find a way to temporarily fix it. I turned off the 5 GHz band on my access point to force my iPhone to use 2.4 GHz. That fixed it or at least made it much better, so I guess the problem is with 5 GHz.
I'm usually lucky enough to miss these intermittent bugs that always seem to pop up in October/November for the new OS releases. That said I'm currently sitting on 16.0, so... maybe I'll push that next update off for a few weeks, just in case.
That sound like a configuration issue with your wireless carrier not an Apple issue. Some wireless carriers go out of their way trying to force you on their native network even if it does not exist in your current location.
An Apple a day makes the bugs say, “Yay!” 🍏🐛
Hmm weird, my WiFi connection is stellar. Haven’t had a single disconnect. But I also didn’t experience most of the previous bugs like many others did. This universe is so weird.
I was wanting to go to iOS 16.1 and HomePod OS for "Matter" alone, but to be honest the HomePods are flaky even on 15. I have stellar Wifi coverage in the household here and those devices will often respond with "Hmmm. I'm having trouble connecting to the Internet" yada yada blah blah. Seems more problematic on the 4 Minis we have than the OG HomePods though, which is likely due to their inherent physical differences, antenna design/effectiveness, etc. ¯\(ツ)/¯
It's odd. I haven't actually had them complain about connectivity in a long time. The only reason I noticed is because they are used as speakers for Apple TVs, and the audio would cut out. When I'd check in the UniFi app, they were notably not connected to Wi-Fi.
They recover on their own, but it wasn't an issue until 16.1.
Happens when they cut off OS development resources to prioritize the ad business development.
I've been experiencing this problem before 16.1. Between 16.0 and 16.0.2, I've had my devices randomly disconnect from 5GHz Wi-Fi networks and then when I try to reconnect, it always asks for the network key even though it's one of my saved networks. This only seems to happen with 5GHz networks and not 2.4GHz networks and the disconnects seem to happen more often when the device is in sleep mode.
I've tested and encountered this on iPhone, iPad, and HomePod Mini all on 16.0-16.0.2.
I've tested and encountered this on iPhone, iPad, and HomePod Mini all on 16.0-16.0.2.
I kept resetting my router. Now I know it wasn't my router.
And this is why I wait like 4 months to upgrade
Microsoft software has been more stable than Apple’s for some time now.
I wonder if perhaps the update borked something with wireless AX or alternately with AC, which would explain why some people have issues and others not. Or perhaps the aggressiveness with which it tries to seek out and connect to what it considers better connections or 5Ghz vs 4.2Ghz? Just speculating of course..
My (13pm) keeps dropping connection for no reason (no other devices do it). So far, I’ve found disabling and re-enabling Wi-Fi through the command center re-connects it.