Thanks for the clarifications. Just FYI, in networking, raw socket usually refers to raw IP sockets, hence my confusion. So, lemme summarise the issue: You have an iOS app. It talks to a Wi-Fi based accessory over TCP. With iPhone 16, this all works as expected. With iPhone 17, things go wrong, such that your TCP socket disconnects after 20 seconds. After that, your app is unable to reconnect. And the only way to resolve the issue is to restart the Wi-Fi subsystem on your accessory. Is that right? If so, this sounds eminently bugworthy. While there are lots of ways that local networking can go wrong, the fact that this fails when the only variable you change is moving from iPhone 16 to 17 suggests that it’s caused by a Wi-Fi level issue on iPhone 17. DevForums focuses on Apple APIs and tools, and isn’t really set up to help with Wi-Fi level issues. Given your description of the problem, I think it makes sense for you to file a bug so that our Wi-Fi engineering team can investigate. In your bug, make it clear
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App & System Services
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Networking
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