Been trying to troubleshoot a Wi-Fi issue with my iPhone 13 that started happening after upgrading to iOS 16. Basically the phone loses connection to the Internet intermittently (even though it's still connected to the Wi-Fi), which causes things like sluggish webpage loading and every online access taking way more time than it should. Every other Wi-Fi device in the house works perfectly. I got so aggravated today that I decided to get to the bottom of the issue, and I'm even more pissed off now. It reminded me how exasperating it is to try finding helpful advice on Apple forums and communities, due to certain fanboys being unable to accept that their beloved company can mess up from time to time. Take this thread for example:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/254213720?page=1
Basically the same thing I found in many other threads/forums, with several people noticing the same problem after the iOS upgrade, only for 2 fanboy "experts" to pop up with their troubleshooting suggestions. It goes something like this:
- Apple drone #1: "it has to be a DHCP bug in your router, iOS is the greatest software creation of mankind and its networking code is absolutely perfect!" Sure dude, a lot of random routers of different brands all across the world have the exact same issue and it only manifests itself with iOS 16 Wi-Fi client devices. Seems like the most likely scenario 🙄
- Apple drone #2: "Are you sure you aren't using a VPN?" NO, I AM NOT USING ANY FUCKING VPN, STOP REPEATING THAT IN EVERY POST!!!
I'm not even the person asking, but reading those posts made me want to punch those guys through the monitor. And they repeat the same bullshit every two posts!!
Anyway, from what I can gather the only 100% sure way of fixing the issue is doing a clean restore of the phone. Backing up and restoring won't work as it will also "restore" the bug. So that means reinstalling all the apps, configuration, and who knows what else. FML.