iPhone 5 - Wifi Strength

[omro]

Hi,

My office has a wifi signal that is pretty weak where I sit.

My old iPhone 4 had no trouble picking this up and showing mostly 1 bar of strength, sometimes 2.

The new iPhone 5 can't seem to pick this up at all.

Anyone else experiencing something like this?

Thanks

I've been using a speck case. The iPhone picks up the wifi better without the case on it. Has anyone else noticed this?

 

[drakeshipway]

Any luck with this? My iPhone 5 only gets 1 bar of WiFi while inside my house, while all my other Apple products get full bars. - I'm thinking it might be a hardware issue.

 

[supervelous]

Any luck with this? My iPhone 5 only gets 1 bar of WiFi while inside my house, while all my other Apple products get full bars. - I'm thinking it might be a hardware issue.

Same here, only showing 1 bar of wifi in my house, everything else full bars including my Galaxy S3

 

[willmtaylor]

Hi,

My office has a wifi signal that is pretty weak where I sit.

My old iPhone 4 had no trouble picking this up and showing mostly 1 bar of strength, sometimes 2.

The new iPhone 5 can't seem to pick this up at all.

Anyone else experiencing something like this?

Thanks

There's already a discussion here: https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1448892/

 

[mattopotamus]

someone made a video the other day showing how if you cover the entire back part where the camera is, the wifi signal slowly drops. I bet the case is having the same effect. Here is the video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMGJKkbaL88

 

[maflynn]

Please use the linked thread above for discussion on this topic