IOS 14 WiFi

I am having the same issue. My husband’s iPad on iOS 13 and my Mac have no connectivity problems, but both my iPad and iPhone with iOS 14 don’t load or don’t fully load web pages. They just hang. Is there any way to go back to 13?

This is so so frustrating. Everything in my house works fine except my phone. I JUST got reliable WiFi after a year of not even being able to afford that. I was so excited and happy before the update to finally have WiFi. NOW NOTHING. Apple not every customer is rich. I’m a single mom with two infants and I keep having to pay for my data overage because I can’t use my phone any other way. I REALLY should be getting a refund for those charges APPLE. I’m not going to stop. Maybe try their Twitter, if others see maybe we will get a response and resolution. If there are this many complaints, imagine how many people don’t realize it was the update who RUINED their phone.

Daaaaang i have seven plus and it’s completely useless without wifi, even got a new router but for nought.who’s gonna pay for the data usage?

Just update to iOS 14.2 today.
I got the same proble, and can't get any way to solve this issue.
What I have tried :

1. Reset Network Settings

2. Set Private Address to Off

3. Forget Network and re-join

4. Hard reset

all above still not fix my problem,
When I restart wifi, then the data will come in several minutes, but after that.... freeze.

any other workaround for this problem ??

YEs! Last update totally jacked my phone. Issues connecting at home and everywhere. Soo frustrating 😕

Ignoring and re-joining wifi fixed my problem.

I found workaround for this case,
at least in my home.

Go to Wifi Setting, and set DNS from Automatic to Manual.
I removed default DNS server given from my router,
and then add Google DNS 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4.

Voila, the problem seems fixed.

Anyway, I believe this is not permanent solution, and I thinks not everyone iOS users understand such this technical workaround.

If this is your case, maybe you can try.... hopefully it's help.

Same problem for me. iPad Pro, iPhone 8 and iPhone XR still disconnecting at random times. All these troubles appeared after an update to 14.1. I tried about all the solutions proposed on this forum but nothing is working...

Yes, every time I turn on my phone (iPhone XR) it shows that I’m using LTE and when trying to use something it says that there is no wifi. I’ve tried to rest the connection but to no avail. iOS 14 really messed up my connection to the wifi. I hope this gets fixed soon because it’s really annoying 😡.

Hi Team. I got the same issue after upgrading iOS to 14.2
I've tried to reset network settings and all the hints regarding DNS and Private address above...

But in my case the solution was to change the settings of the Access Point (Router). I switched the encryption from "WPA2 (CCMP)" to "WPA2+WPA3" and WiFi it works again.

I hope it might help some of you

Thanks to swardoyo and SidSloth for the suggestions! Unfortunately, the DNS change didn't help and my router (Netgear Orbi RBR50) does not have an option for "WPA2/WPA3" which is the default selection for wireless networks on IOS14 (may have been that way before too, never bothered to check as it just worked). Although I cannot validate what was present on my phone before updating to 14.x, I have an old iPhone 5s running 12.4.8 and WPA2 by itself is an option and this phone has no issue with internet connectivity.

My guess would be something to do with the WPA2/WPA3 security type currently set on IOS (could have been present before, not sure) and the lack of the option on my specific router. 

I have an email into Netgear for some insight. Fingers crossed as this is impactful - cell reception in my area is not good so WiFi is used for calls.

Thanks for the support and insight everyone, it is greatly appreciated!

As an update for my specific scenario, I did change the security option on my router to WPA-PSK [TKIP] + WPA2-PSK [AES] and now connectivity to the internet seems stable. My theory may hold some water but curious what others are seeing.

Yes I am too facing the same problem. My iPhone 7 keeps randomly disconnecting to the WiFi since the time I have updated to iOS 14. This is so frustrating specially when it’s an emergency. The time when the internet is most need, right at that time the WiFi isn’t working. No issue with the internet or WiFi router in the house as other WiFi enabled devices are working perfectly fine. @Apple please fix this problem ASAP #Apple #NeedHelp 🙏🏻

Same problem. REALLY frustrating. The cell phone service where I live is horrible so I depend on Wifi calling. Its an average between 3 - 5 minutes and the call gets dropped. Trying to make a service call, they had to keep calling me back. I've gone 8-12 with having to call someone in a conversation. For the first time, someone told me to get a different phone and I'll admit I'm tempted to after this issue and the lack of fixing it in a timely manner. Just rollback the revision so we can make calls again!

I have been having the same problem too! Recently after updating my XR to iOS 14.2, I’ve been having wifi connection issues on my phone. I never had this type of problem for almost a year. I had to literally restart my phone at least 5 times so that my phone would be able to connect with the internet. When it doesn’t connect to the wifi, my data on LTE stops working too. I believe this is an issue with the new update on the phone because like I said, I never had this problem before. Please fix this ASAP as it’s getting very frustrating!!!!

Having similar problems. WLAN disconnects when roaming at my workplace. After waking the phone, it takes quite a while to reconnect. this has started happening since ios 14.x ...and is definetely not fixed with 14.2.
This is going to be a disaster if it isnt fixed soon, we depend on wifi for calls on our premises (using cisco jabber).
Also this is using airwatch MDM deployed Wifi profile (WPA-Enterprise with Certificate based auth). So the issue is not (only) in WPA2 PSK or something.

I finally figured out what was going on with my network connection and MAC address filtering on my router.

There is apparently a new feature in IOS 14 called PRIVATE ADDRESS. It is found under Settings -> WI-FI -> <Your Network Name>. This setting can be turned ON and OFF and assigns a unique MAC ADDRESS for your device on a particular network that is independent of the hardware Wi-Fi MAC address found under Settings -> General -> About -> Wi-Fi Address. Private Address is supposed to limit how your device can be tracked across networks.

I tuned OFF Private Address for all devices on my home network and turned MAC Filtering back ON in my router and now everything appears to working as before. I know this may not solve your particular issue, but it's something to be aware of. I knew nothing of this new feature until I started poking around in Settings trying to get some more clues about what was going on in my particular scenario.

The problem with this feature (in my case) is that it is ON by default and apparently active when you get the HELLO / Set-up screen in IOS. I had this situation after the upgrade to IOS 14, so no matter what I did, I could not sign into my home network during the upgrade and log into iCloud.

As I mentioned, this is probably not related to the larger issue being discussed on this forum, but I wanted to share this information for those who might be curious.

Have a nice day.

Same for me. When I lock the phone or sometimes randomly, the WiFi disconnects and I have to turn it on manually from the settings. Please fix it

Updated to iOS 14 and still hasn’t fixed the issue

Yes, Apple PLEASE fix this issue! Ever since iOS 14 updates, my iPhone will literally not even load some of my apps due to “connectivity” or “internet connection” problems. It’s infuriating! iPhone and all apps worked perfectly fine before this update, so I would love to roll back the update if possible.

Yes, I have same isses after updating to 14.2 my wifi jeeps disconnecting. I have tried everything like

• forget network

• restart phone

• disabling private address

Problem is related to both my iPhone XS MAX and my iPad Pro.

HELP!

In pure frustration i did an 'erase all content and settings' on my ipad air 3 and the problem of random wifi dropping is stil happening.

I've had a problem with wifi since upgrading to IOS 14.1. The wifi signal is strong, but Internet connectivity over wifi is not available - making my new iPhone 11 useless as a wifi device.

I've figured out that the problem is due to IOS 14 apparent incompatibility with Cisco's OpenDNS service , which is the DNS service I use to provide some protection to my young family from some of the more 'adult' aspects of the Web.

In my router, I had the DNS setting set to the recommended IP addresses of the OpenDNS servers.

All other devices on my home network (several Macs, Windows PCS, Android phones, a Smart TV, streaming music devices) all work with OpenDNS. My iphone 11 did too until it received the IOS 14.1 update

I had to remove the DNS setting for OpenDNS, and set my DNS service to that provided automatically my ISP for my iPhone 11 (IOS 14.1) to work.

I find it ironic that I have to lower the security of my home network and the security of its home users in order to get a device with IOS 14 to work on it. I value the OpenDNS service as it provides some level of blocking of certain categories of content at router level.

I can't apparently post a link here, but if you search for 'DNS Resolver Selection in iOS 14 and macOS 11' you will find a link that gives information on this issue.

Code Block 
			
		

I’ve lost the ability to access cellular data while on a phone call.

I found this solution on the internet. Try turning off VPN under Settings. This allowed me to get internet access working on my iPhone again. To get VPN working on my iPhone again, I had to delete and reinstall my VPN app (McAfee). This worked for me. I hope this helps. Good luck.