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Verizon iPhone 14 Pro Customers Reporting Cellular Connection Issues
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And then people on here will get all smug and be like, "You know nothing. EVERY release has been like this." As if that's a defense of Apple?!
The closest thing I’ve had to this issue is it refusing to pull data from any network. I will be connected to cellular and Wi-Fi and it shows the connection is fine, but I can’t load the webpage. I will disconnect the Wi-Fi so it’s just on cellular but still no data. The last time I restarted it, and everything was fine.
I fully expected this because I had a whole bunch of issues last year with the iPhone 13 Pro Max and iOS 15. This isn’t an a hardware issue but rather Apple is having problems getting a stable iOS release on launch day. I don’t know if it’s caused by people from working from home or whatever Apple is doing but they need to fix it. I didn’t have this problem before iOS 15. Maybe I was lucky but I don’t think so.
I fully expected this because I had a whole bunch of issues last year with the iPhone 13 Pro Max and iOS 15. This isn’t an a hardware issue but rather Apple is having problems getting a stable iOS release on launch day. I don’t know if it’s caused by people from working from home or whatever Apple is doing but they need to fix it. I didn’t have this problem before iOS 15. Maybe I was lucky but I don’t think so.
It's either two things, modem firmware or carrier profile. Or both. Hilarious. This is clearly a troublesome year for product launches from Apple. I may sit back and see what happens with Ventura instead of day one upgrade.
You're not fooling anyone Tim. Get off Macrumors and get back to designing the iPhone 27.
I can confirm this slowness on 5g, I have a 13 pro max right next to my 14 pro and the 13 pro max is 100% stable and 100 megs faster than the 14 pro. So yes there is some sort of modem driver issue with this handset. So time for apple to work on this and push a modem firmware update. Till then we are just gonna suffer I suppose. If the screen on the 14 pro had not been just better with taking my touch input I would have returned this thing. The fact it takes my touch input properly something no 13 pro ever did. So here I am with a gimpy battery draining 14 pro that gets hot with even worse service, but at least can text again and not sound like a 5 year old with all sorts of typing errors
No issues with my 14 Pro Max on the EE UK network, signal strength, speed and connection stability is the same as my 13 Pro Max was.
Pretty soon this is going to become a bannable offense like “Safari seems snappier”. 🤣
Nope. Work from home has zero bearing on performance. That’s just propaganda spread by anti-wfh articles.
Most places, mine included have the metrics to back up the fact we get significantly more and better work done from home. The only people who don’t are the people who never really did anything to begin with.
Apple has good news for you. You no longer have to deal with a SIM card! Even if you want to! Even if you actually do have to!
I also share this experience. I am currently experiencing no issues if not better connectivity. I am located in NYC and have had wonderful service.
That would imply it is more of a Verizon issue than an iPhone 14 Pro issue. Interesting.
Past Christmas season is the best time to buy Apple products. They‘ll iron out early manufacturing mistakes and another batch of products will be manufactured and sold. Returned products will be repaired, refurbished and be sold with discount. But I never seen so much bugs after Apple release like this year and with the exorbitant price in EU makes this a bad release year from Apple. I hope the iPhone 15 (Ultra?) and Watch Ultra 2 will be better (sane) one pricewise and bugwise.
Please list all the bugs. I must have missed a lot of them, because it hasn't really seemed like a lot to me.
Been using the eSIM on my 13 Pro Max and 14 Pro Max, no issues whatsoever on EE in the UK.
I dunno, in the NW Ohio area, Verizon has been horrible lately. Various family members on the following iPhone models: XS, 11 Pro, 12, and 13. All with horrific connect issues. Full bars, no signal.
There’s no 5G in this area so it’s possible the problem is tied to 5G. But my 14 Pro is no different than the 12 I came from in terms of reliability. That is to say Verizon’s service isn’t any worse, but it’s been pretty horrible anyway so…
Also FWIW, I was in a 5G area over the weekend and wasn’t blown away by the speeds. It did seem slower than my 12 had in that same area, but I chalked it up to Verizon’s overall service degradation.
There’s no 5G in this area so it’s possible the problem is tied to 5G. But my 14 Pro is no different than the 12 I came from in terms of reliability. That is to say Verizon’s service isn’t any worse, but it’s been pretty horrible anyway so…
Also FWIW, I was in a 5G area over the weekend and wasn’t blown away by the speeds. It did seem slower than my 12 had in that same area, but I chalked it up to Verizon’s overall service degradation.
Unlikely. I can swap SIM cards in 30 seconds or less.