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iPhone 11 New iPhone 11 often won’t load webpages

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ajm222

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Is this my phone or perhaps the latest iOS or maybe some other glitch? Anyone with this issue? several webpages just will not respond when I try to visit them, including macrumors Today. Safari just sits there with the loading bar only a quarter of the way. I thought maybe the pop up blocker was causing the problem but turning it off didn’t work. Cleared cache and it didn’t help. It’s been doing this randomly but regularly for weeks. Thanks.
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Did restart the phone and that worked. But problem always seems to return.
 
It’s not just the iPhone 11. My iPhone 8 is the same way.

Apple seriously dropped the ball this year with iOS 13. It’s by far the worst piece of software I’ve ever experienced from Apple in the 10 years of owning various iPhones.

Many times, I’ll load a page via safari and it’s randomly stuck. I can’t scroll through the page at all. It’s a mess. Refreshes are also common. I’d say about half the time, the page won’t load at all. I’m talking about simple everyday internet sites. It’s a disgrace.

Ironically, iOS 13 is great with battery life. They need to stop releasing stupid emoji’s along with other nonsense and start focusing on bugs.

I test software for a living, which is why this so annoying and unacceptable. Never mind that you can’t access a website via your smartphone in 2020. As long as you can send some idiotic animated faces to friends, all is good.
 
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Thanks. Good to know it’s not my individual phone or something I’m doing. And I agree. So many big issues that I hope they address quickly. Though we’ve already had a ton of updates and many of these problems persist. I posted earlier about the fact it take my phone about 20 or more seconds just to shut down completely, then a while to turn back on, when it used to be much faster. Minor thing I guess, but surprising.
 
Yea I’ve experienced this both on my pro max and my iPhone 7 before I upgraded. I’ll even have tabs on the same exact website loading instantly and functioning fine but for some reason that single exact URL would refuse to load, quite often it happens when I click to go back, the progress bar just freezes at a certain level of progression and no amounts of refreshes, closing the browser, opening fresh tabs and re-entering the url works.

Absolutely everything else on the website would work fine, the same page works fine on every other device.
 
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Have you tried flipping between your cellular and WiFi connections when it happens? There are so many hardware-software factors involved between your service provider and your iPhone that sometimes it is hard to tell what is really going on. I personally did not notice any major connectivity issues in iOS 13, compared to iOS 12 and 11.
 
Mobile data turned off, all devices connected to the WiFi. Other devices connect fine at the same exact time. Meanwhile my iPhone will just be stuck often with the loading bar being a quarter full. I can turn off WiFi and connect via mobile network, still stuck.

A few hours later the iPhone has no problem and functions with that exact webpage fine. Only experience this with my iPhone.

it’s bizarre.
 
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s54 said:
It’s not just the iPhone 11. My iPhone 8 is the same way.

Apple seriously dropped the ball this year with iOS 13. It’s by far the worst piece of software I’ve ever experienced from Apple in the 10 years of owning various iPhones.

Many times, I’ll load a page via safari and it’s randomly stuck. I can’t scroll through the page at all. It’s a mess. Refreshes are also common. I’d say about half the time, the page won’t load at all. I’m talking about simple everyday internet sites. It’s a disgrace.

Ironically, iOS 13 is great with battery life. They need to stop releasing stupid emoji’s along with other nonsense and start focusing on bugs.

I test software for a living, which is why this so annoying and unacceptable. Never mind that you can’t access a website via your smartphone in 2020. As long as you can send some idiotic animated faces to friends, all is good.
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Perhaps apple made iOS save more battery by not loading pages. Makes sense.
 
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Try going to Settings/Safari and delete all website data (cache, cookies). Disable any add blocker to see if that helps. Also some sites won't work if cookie sending/receiving has been constrained
 
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I get the same problem on my iPad, seems to have started with iOS 12. It’s very annoying..iPad is WiFi only.
 
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I was having issues with webpages and apps loading...taking forever or timing out. I finally did a total reset last night and it seems to be working better today....not 100% perfect but better than the last few weeks driving me nuts. I'll see how it goes the rest of this week.
 
FlippyGonnaSnap said:
Mobile data turned off, all devices connected to the WiFi. Other devices connect fine at the same exact time. Meanwhile my iPhone will just be stuck often with the loading bar being a quarter full. I can turn off WiFi and connect via mobile network, still stuck.

A few hours later the iPhone has no problem and functions with that exact webpage fine. Only experience this with my iPhone.

it’s bizarre.
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You know, this is a sign of a hacked iPhone.
Point 3 here:
eu.usatoday.com

7 clear-cut signs you've been hacked

Computers, phones and routers are vulnerable to cyber-criminals. Here's how to determine if a slow or oddly behaving device has been prey to hackers.
eu.usatoday.com

I think a lot more iPhone hacking goes on than many people realise. Even if they can’t get at the core of the OS, they can cause connectivity issues and strange app behaviour such as saying it’s not connected to the internet when it really is.
 
Was that on LTE?
I had a similar problem with VoLTE on. I just chose the one without it (just 2g,3g and 4g) and that fixed it for me.
 
Ummm, Chrome?

Safari is garbage. Actually, believe it or not (I didn’t), Microsoft Edge is surprisingly good on iOS. Firefox is okay, too.

What carrier are you on? I used to get a lot of data stalls on AT&T, but these are a thing of the past since I switched to VZW. (I was a T customer for 25 yrs.)
 
And here I am thinking the entire time it is because of AT&T or my home network. I have gotten my home network fixed with other issues (We use a CISCO ASA 5506-X with an AP, and Cox Communications, signal levels were terrible). And AT&T is just AT&T.....

Good to know it is just Apple's poor engineering.
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jschnee21 said:
Ummm, Chrome?

Safari is garbage. Actually, believe it or not (I didn’t), Microsoft Edge is surprisingly good on iOS. Firefox is okay, too.

What carrier are you on? I used to get a lot of data stalls on AT&T, but these are a thing of the past since I switched to VZW. (I was a T customer for 25 yrs.)
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I refuse to use Google anything. Definitely not Chrome.

Safari actually works pretty well in past OSes, but does suck in iOS 13. Not sucking enough for me to switch to a G product however.
 
Future-Proof said:
You know, this is a sign of a hacked iPhone.
Point 3 here:
eu.usatoday.com

7 clear-cut signs you've been hacked

Computers, phones and routers are vulnerable to cyber-criminals. Here's how to determine if a slow or oddly behaving device has been prey to hackers.
eu.usatoday.com

I think a lot more iPhone hacking goes on than many people realise. Even if they can’t get at the core of the OS, they can cause connectivity issues and strange app behaviour such as saying it’s not connected to the internet when it really is.
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I doubt the hacked phone theory. And the majority of this speculative article piece covers desktop computers with way more options to sidestep the OS security.

Of course anything can be hacked but in this case - doubt it.
 
dontwalkhand said:
And here I am thinking the entire time it is because of AT&T or my home network. I have gotten my home network fixed with other issues (We use a CISCO ASA 5506-X with an AP, and Cox Communications, signal levels were terrible). And AT&T is just AT&T.....

Good to know it is just Apple's poor engineering.
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I refuse to use Google anything. Definitely not Chrome.

Safari actually works pretty well in past OSes, but does suck in iOS 13. Not sucking enough for me to switch to a G product however.
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But don’t all browsers on iOS use the same Safari rendering engine under the hood?
 
Yes. They're all the same. They have a different interface but every one of them use the WebKit rendering engine. Just like safari
 
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