It's surprisingly more stable than the current publicly released iOS 26 build. Very rare, but others around the internet have had similar experiences, and I have yet to encounter a breaking issue.
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Some iPhone 17, iPhone 17 Pro, and iPhone Air Users Experiencing Intermittent Wi-Fi Issue
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I fully concur on the "testing the new N1 chip incredibly well". And it is kind of a sour taste on everyone with a shiny new 17/P/PM or Air to start having these issues with their new device. Hopefully Apple releases an interim update this week fixing this issue. But, today, the fix is updating to the Developer Beta iOS 26.1 beta 1.
Upgrading to 26.1b1 fixes some people's Wifi/Bluetooth/Carplay issues, but there are a lot of people that still have issues after upgrading to 26.1b1
It fixes the bug when unlocking iPhones with N1 chip while wearing an Apple Watch with the Unlock with iPhone feature enabled (the only issue I've encountered so far, network related). Not sure about other issues as I haven't noticed anything breaking, yet.
Upgraded to a 17 Pro Max (from a 16 Pro Max 😩) today and installed 17.1 via IPSW first thing. So far, so good (despite some lingering and new minor visual bugs). Quite performant but so was the 16 Pro Max.
Still after a week on my 2TB 17 ProMax and none of problems being reported here. I am not an expert on polls here nor can I probably create a good one but I am wondering if this is prevalent in particular models and/or memory configurations. It sounds here like from this thread it leans more into the Pro line. It would be interesting to see a poll showing those with and without by model and memory configurations to satisfy my curiosity but not sure all that would be helpful. I am also still wondering (even though no problems for me) How many percentage wise in all the 17 models with issue there are compared to those with not. I get the feeling the problem is wiht a smaller (but significant number) of phones from my reading of this thread.
FWIW, my problem phones are a 17p with 512GB and a 17PM with 1TB
Suffering from this issue and tempted to just return my new phone til this gets resolved. I don't see Apple even acknowledging this issue. Nearly every time I unlock my phone the wifi drops, including CarPlay.
The only thing Apple pays attention to is "money", so you'd be wise to do exactly that.
The beta fixes the issue, but not really wanting to install the beta again... My Apple Watch even keeps disconnecting. This is 100% an N1 chip issue. I'm starting to think since the beta fixes it, Apple does know but they don't want to release an update yet...
So I picked it up as a spare my Mazda CX-5 2025 with wired CarPlay, Bluetooth and wireless connection to phone for entertainment and also for the Mazda remote app on my 17 PM. (App does remote locking, starting, stats on the car ect). I see in the instructions to use I have to start CarPlay (how mine is wired and works when my phone is in wired connection no starting it. It also says to unpair the Bluetooth and Wifi wirelss connections with phone not doing that it would kill the pairing setup with Mazda connect app I am thinking that works well, also have WiFi or Bluetooth connection with the car from my insurance company that gives me safe driver fee cuts by monitoring driving so that needs to be connected to car might be too complex to work this wireless adapter I am thinkingI can confirm that adapter is still working for me, I've driven for over an hour in total with this adaptor, using Waze and streaming lossless music at the same time, still wearing my Ultra 3 unlocked and this adapter hasn't disconnected once.
I'm using it with an aftermarket Pioneer SPH-360DAB headunit and my 17 PM seems very happy with this combo so far. I can't say for 100% certainty this adapter would work for everyone but for me it's been perfect.
I bought this one. It's one of those devices that might show up in many different names, but as long as it looks the identical, it's most likley the same one.
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I just connected to its Bluetooth name and accepted to allow CarPlay.
Just now experiencing this on the Air I’m test driving. So strange, really did happen randomly. I’m just charging the thing and suddenly no WiFi.
Settings says it’s connected, but using 5G for data. No further explanation.
Settings says it’s connected, but using 5G for data. No further explanation.
Thanks was hoping it would work that way vs the complex instructions in the little manual that is almost to small to read LOL
Yea my Air was perfect for the first 4-5 days and then bam, now AirPods disconnecting, Wifi, Apple Watch keeps disconnecting. 5G is even disconnecting. So it's 100% a bug with the N1 chip. I have a buddy who is having wireless CarPlay issues and disconnects on the 17 Pro also. It's supposedly fixed in the 26.1 beta so hopefully they release 26.0.1 this week and it fixes it...
That’s interesting - I’m on 26.1 B1 and still getting random WiFi disconnects. Suppose we’ll have to wait and see if there’s a new beta tomorrow.
That's weird because alot were saying it's fixed in the beta. It'd be funny if it's a hardware issue with the N1 and that's why Apple won't acknowledge the bug. We're all in trouble then. I thought about going to Apple to see if they'd switch out my Air before my 14 days is up next Friday... I'm starting to worry it's a hardware issue. And it seems to be getting worse, today is worse than yesterday. I went for a 30 minute walk and my AirPods disconnected 8 times and my watch 4 times. Every time I unlock my phone my wifi disconnects right away and it goes into SOS mode and then the 5G comes back and then the Wifi a few minutes later reconnects.
And I had no issues for the first few days as I said. The. it started Wednesday or Thursday and now I'm logging every disconnect because they're becoming more each day....
What’s interesting is that you’re having 5G and WiFi issues. Those have wholly different chips - C1X and N1 respectively. Plus, I haven’t had a 5G issue.
Who’s your carrier? Could be a software configuration issue on either end
I'm not sure what the actual triggers are for this issue. I've still not (touch wood) experiencing any issues with my iPhone Air, my Apple Watch Ultra 3 and series 7 or my APP2's. They are all functioning as expected. My iPhone unlocks my Ultra 3 each morning. I use my series 7 as my sleep tracker. I use my AirPods everyday when I'm out and about walking or exercising and that's about 1-2 hours per day. They don't cut off while i'm listening to music via the iPhone or from the Apple Watch. I don't drive, I don't have a car so no CarPlay but I still can't figure out what triggers the issue for so many people, (if I did I would avoid it). All my devices are on the public release of iOS & watchOS 26 and I updated my APP2's to the latest firmware so everything is up to date.
edit: just for clarification I connect to wifi with WiFi7 MLO and my router reports the iPhone is connected on any of the 6GHz, 5GHz & 2.4GHz bands. The Air seems to perform much better on MLO than the iPhone 16 Pro ever did. It would constantly disconnect and jump back to my non-MLO SSID. The iPhone Air is very stable when using MLO.
edit: just for clarification I connect to wifi with WiFi7 MLO and my router reports the iPhone is connected on any of the 6GHz, 5GHz & 2.4GHz bands. The Air seems to perform much better on MLO than the iPhone 16 Pro ever did. It would constantly disconnect and jump back to my non-MLO SSID. The iPhone Air is very stable when using MLO.
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I’m the canary in the coal mine. I spent two hours with Apple this morning, they couldn’t fix it, so I rolled into my service provider and they offered an exchange. We will see!
Apple said it could be a batch problem. Which might be a continuing issue given that I got the second one from the same location as the first. Waiting for the transfer to be completed now.
The whole process has been exhausting.
Really embarrassing and shameful that it’s taking over a week to push a fix. This is probably the worst day 1 bug I’ve ever had on an iPhone. Mine disconnects from WiFi every single time I unlock the phone. I am now used to unlocking the phone and immediately doing nothing while I stare at the WiFi signal to disconnect… wait… connected, now I can use my phone. Takes between 7-15 seconds.
Very interesting it does work, but what I noted once i pair to device it of course when plugged in always goes to to CarPlay and it seems rock solid for the time I tested. But also I noted a couple things. It turns off as it starts the Bluetooth to the Mazda CX-5, and also turns off the WiFi connection to it, and turns off the WiFi connection to the house which was showing on phone (along with the 5G bars it was seeing. The only problem (it goes away back to normal when I unplugged it) is that the connection to the Mazda connect screen info outside of CarPlay is turned off. When I am in wired CarPlay I can toggle back and forth between the two and look at car info. The dongle takes over fully only leaving the Bluetooth to my AWU3 untouched.
First image upon starting car with it connected Mazda Bluetooth and AWU3
Second image the single numbers on my phone WiFi and turns off strong fiber WiFi that was connected and the dongle is connected in WiFi Note it sees the house WiFi and Mazda WiFi only the dongle is only WiFi connected to phone
And now the watch and wireless CarPlay dongle are connected in Bluetooth and Mazda CX-5 Bluetooth is not connected.
Then the single Bluetooth is shown as disconnected but CarPlay is running fine on my screen anyway so not sure what is going on maybe its using the Wifi of phone and not Bluetooth I guess how that all works??
Interesting
Oh this is the device I am talking about FYI folks
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