Ever since switching to the above phone from the X and changing to EE, I have low signal and only a few bars. Toggle airplane mode off and on and it’s back to full strength. Anyone know what might be going on?
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iPhone 11 Pro iPhone 11 Pro Max low signal bars
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The EE network could be parking your device on a higher LTE band as the primary carrier. This is extremely common in the US. Toggling airplane mode on/off temporarily will get you back onto a lower band (which could result in more signal bars). However, once the network sees your phone again, it’ll just bump you back up to a higher LTE band. This is done to better manage network traffic.
Two bars of high band LTE isn’t necessarily bad at all. You can have better network performance on 2 bars of high band LTE vs full bars of low band LTE.
However, if you are going from full signal to no signal, I would be concerned about a network issue nearby or maybe something wrong with your Pro Max.
