IOS 14 WiFi

Hello everyone,

it seems this issue gets fixed if you go to settings > wifi > press the i next to the network name and disable “Private Adress”

Yes, after updating to 14.4 my iPhone 12 WiFi doesn’t work at all (won’t allow WiFi switch to toggle. No networks show up, of course)

tried hard reset and resetting network settings with no change to situation.

help!

Yes, have had issues since Thursday 4th Feb, tried restarting devices and router still says password incorrect yet all other non apple devices are working without any issue. Have tried the ‘private address’ fix and still not connecting. Please issue a fix ASAP apple because I don’t see why I should pay my mobile network for more data when it’s an apple issue!!!!!

Yes, just updated to 14.4 and now wifi button us greyed out and cant be switched on. Tried switching airplane mode, reset network settings. Didn’t work.

not the first time though that i have this issue. Seems after every update i get this issue.

YES!!! It’s extremely annoying! Every damn update with Apple I always have connectivity to WiFi and to my car for Apple play! Now I also get when texting someone, or a text comes in the main text screen is completely blank as well as delay in keyboard texting! I’m about done with Apple! First I was going to upgrade to iPhone 12 Pro Max, but why waste the money when they can’t even include the charger or headphones?! Currently running 14.4 iOS IPhone XR. Maybe I should go back to android! Only reason I left was because of the note series blowing up! Just about had enough of the greediness from APPLE AND THE UPDATE ISSUES! Just because they aren’t seeing a issue with their phone doesn’t mean they don’t exist!!! Purposely messing phones up so we’d upgrade! Unless they give me a damn good reason, I will not purchase another phone from them!
CLEARLY BY READING THIS THREAD 1 too many people having same issues, APPLE! Please get your heads out of your azz and fix it! It’s amazing how other non iOS devices work flawless with no problem. So it isn’t our internet or wifi it’s Apple!!!! Fix it! Give it time and people will come together and you’d be sued! Plenty of proof out there that shows you mess with older phones so we’d upgrade! My husband is even having issues since the last update and after seeing what I and many others going through, refuses to update. Can’t say I blame him! Fix the problems Apple I know damn well you’re reading these comments! **

Yes! It has to do with the new 14.4 IOS update, I tried to verify the update and every time is says “ You cannot verify because you are no longer connected to the internet” I do not understand this because I am on a strong internet connection, I have refreshed about everything, and because of this, My cellular dat doesn’t work and it is cashing many problems. I don’t know if cellular has to do with the new update, but I am very frustrated and can rarely use my phone. I also do not know if calling other people was a bug fix but anyway I cannot use it. Please help anybody, My phone is basically unusable and that is making things a lot harder.

My Apps are not connecting to Internet even though my wifi and internet connection are good.. my other android phones are getting connection but when I opened safari AppStore or YouTube or any app which requires Internet don’t get internet access and saying offline.. I can’t even update my iOS version as it show no connection

Whatever you fixed in iOS 14.x regarding WiFi please fix again. It wasn’t broke in the last update. Why break it again???? It doesn’t make common sense!!! Using WiFi is becoming a challenge. Keeps dropping. Says no internet connection but other devices are fine. Windows abs Android. Come on Apple. Sort this out. An incremental fix is needed pronto.

After upgrading my iPad 12.9 to 14.4 it had stopped recognizing the Internet. I had read about the use of Private address for your WiFi connections. With the iPad I have several VPNs installed for when I travel outside my home. Turing off the VPN solved this problem. Since the VPN did my see my address it block access to the internet. I tried this on my iPhone 11 and can duplicate this outcome.

Hope this helps....

Yes. Wifi constantly disconnects.

Same issue here. Please Apple HELP !

Recently updated to ios 14.4 and since 2 days ago my wifi drops a lot. Have reset my network setting many times, tried reset all setting, I have no vpns, and tried the private address trick still nothing. Apple needs to fix this and just add a patch instead of being quiet on this issue.

Model: iPhone 8 plus
IOS: The latest

I am having the same issue. Especially, when I am on video calls, audio calls (via wifi), whatsapp, facetime etc... whenever I use any of them, my wifi connection drops off of my iPhone, and continues on the LTE.
I reset my network settings, and I don't use VPN or any other protocols.
This is always an issue with iPhones for the past 3-4 years. So annoying... Apple, please fix this and make wifi connection feature stable.
it is 2021...****... :)

Updated to 14.4 overnight and now my iPhone 11 won’t connect to wifi at all. Tried every fix - turning wifi and iPhone off and on, reset network settings, hard reset phone. These updates are getting worse and worse. Apple needs to get it together.

I am having the same issue, and I believe I figure out the solution. Need few hours to verify!

there seems to be a setting on the wireless connection “private address”, this settings keeps changing the MAC address of the phone causing a new DHCP reservation.

In my specific situation my router logs show a long list of devices that registered themself as iPhones, each with its own MAC address.

A new DHCP registration is shown about every 5-10 min until the router runs out of IPs, the issue is worse when you have multiple iPhones.

who at apple thought this would be a good default setting to enable. I get the whole privacy setting, but perhaps a single MAC address per ssid would be more than enough.