iPhone 17 Pro iPhone 17 Pro WiFi Roaming

[dr_white]

With my iPhone 17 Pro I'm noticing very bad roaming from one wireless access point to another.

It will even completely lose signal when it gets far enough from the access point it's connected to, and the only way to get it to reconnect is by toggling WiFi off and back on again.

I know not many others will have multiple wireless access points at home (I use UniFi), but I'm wondering if anybody else has experienced the same thing?

My previous iPhone 15 Pro Max roamed perfectly as I walk through the house, and I've not changed any settings in UniFi for at least 8 months now. My AP's are 1x U6-LR, 2x U6-Lite and 1 AC Pro (in an area of the house rarely used).

 

[maka344]

The new iPhone 17’s are using apple’s own WiFi chip for the first time. This could be the reason.

 

[JonoNZ]

Yes, I’ve noticed the same thing on my Ubiquiti network — very poor roaming between APs and consequently poor WiFi performance. The iPhone 17 Pro Max also seems to favour slow and congested 2.4 GHz networks which I have never seen before from an iPhone or iPad. Needs a software fix fairly quickly I think.

 

[maka344]

I need to do some testing on my Decco WiFi 7 network. If you have MLO enabled, try disabling that and monitoring it.

 

[dr_white]

The new iPhone 17’s are using apple’s own WiFi chip for the first time. This could be the reason.

Glad I’m not the only one. Won’t go changing anything.