Still experiencing frequent Wi-Fi drops on iPhone 17 Pro Max after updating to iOS 26.0.1

That isn’t helpful: different network topologies and vendors have different configurations, whilst remaining compliant to 802.11 - so a product that doesn’t work in a standard environment when every other device does, has a problem.

And, to blithely tell people to delete their VPNs (not just one provider whose own implementation may be causal) is equally unhelpful, as people have real use cases for VPNs. It’s isn’t acceptable for a vendor (Apple in this case) to simply ignore the need for a feature that is explicitly supported in the OS.

Apple needs to properly acknowledge and address this.

<sigh> There are multiple threads on this site and many more on pretty much any other contextual forum/group you care to look at. So clearly, there are a set of edge (but common) cases which cause the N1 chip to fail to do its job, in circumstances where everything else on the market (including Apple's own products) have no problem. I'd call that QED.

Richard Harris2 wrote:

<sigh> There are multiple threads on this site and many more on pretty much any other contextual forum/group you care to look at. So clearly, there are a set of edge (but common) cases which cause the N1 chip to fail to do its job, in circumstances where everything else on the market (including Apple's own products) have no problem. I'd call that QED.

Multiple threads? Well then, that proves it!

Seriously. Apple is expected to sell almost 250 million phones this year. The best sellers have been the 17 Pro and the Pro Max. So, a few threads here and there do not indicate a massive problem or some sort of inherent fault in the hardware. They indicate that a small number of people have the same problem, which may, in fact, have multiple causes. For some of them, it may well be a hardware problem. While out-of-the-box failures are rare for iPhones, if you make 250 million phones, even a 0.01 percent failure is 25,000.

I understand it is far more satisfying to blame Apple (or the government or the military-industrial complex or Big Pharma) rather than to do the work to try to solve your problem.

I just had my first wifi drop, using ios 26.0.1 on a new iphone 17 Pro. I restarted my phone, and so far, the wifi is connected. Stay tuned…

After upgrading from beta to 26.2 regular it’s gotten WAY worse.

im on EERO with 5Gig AT&T fiber. Everything else on WiFi network and Att is solid. I’m sending this on 5G as its not on WiFi

Yeah same for me, updated, then woke up with no WiFi connectivity at all, have to toggle on and off, oh and it also didn’t fix my battery drain issue either, I’m thinking of returning my phone and buying something else, I need my phone to be useable, and it’s just not

Display stop working after 4 hour of use.

p.s new iphone 17 pro. Setup as new iphone and update at start to iOS 26.0.1. No wach, no headphones, no VPN no nothing else on BT, deleted all devices from car and again CarPlay keeps disconnecting.

Hi I’m having the same issue with my iPhone Air (Wifi constantly disconnecting). Been going through all the troubleshooting steps with Apple and nothing has worked. Very frustrating to have a phone that doesn’t work properly. Any luck with your replacement phone?

Did the new phone fix the issue? I have called apple 3 times and had a few online chats with them. But they all say the same thing. "Go to your nearest genius bar to have them help you." But my nearest genius bar is 300 miles away.

I'm hoping they will just switch mine out if I gripe enough.

Same here! If I want to watch anything longer than 2 min I have to turn WiFi off it it says “no network connection” although every other device in my home is connected & working at top speed. New IOS update is terrible!!

No-one: I’ve spent the entire day going around in circles with Apple Support. They’ve been about as deeply unhelpful as it’s possible to be. I’ve now rejected the phone as unfit for purpose and now have the hassle of returning it and getting it replaced. Apple has fallen a very long way

Richard Harris2 wrote:

And, to blithely tell people to delete their VPNs (not just one provider whose own implementation may be causal) is equally unhelpful, as people have real use cases for VPNs. It’s isn’t acceptable for a vendor (Apple in this case) to simply ignore the need for a feature that is explicitly supported in the OS.

I said to remove it for testing purposes. It is a standard troubleshooting practice to remove everything that didn't come with the device and see if it works properly then. Then add things back one at a time to see if you can determine what's causing the problem. However, most people don't want to restore their phones to factory settings. So, one starts with the obvious candidates.

Apple needs to properly acknowledge and address this.

Apple can't fix all the WiFi networks in the world.

What are your suggestions to the poster to help them troubleshoot?

Britcom wrote:

My 3rd replacement iPhone 17pro in 8 weeks arrived today . Already WiFi speed is dropping. It’s disgusting that Apple can launch a premium sub standard product and not even admit they have an inherent fault. I’m convinced its hardware having tried everything else. I’ll give this one a couple of weeks in case they release further software fix and if not I’m asking for my money back. Unfortunately I sold my old 15 which worked perfectly.

If it really were the hardware, the forum would be awash in posts about this and it would be all over the trade press. It's not. I am not doubting that you have a problem. However, I do believe you are wrong about the "inherent fault." Why don't I have this problem if that's the case?

IdrisSeabright wrote:

Britcom wrote:

My 3rd replacement iPhone 17pro in 8 weeks arrived today . Already WiFi speed is dropping. It’s disgusting that Apple can launch a premium sub standard product and not even admit they have an inherent fault. I’m convinced its hardware having tried everything else. I’ll give this one a couple of weeks in case they release further software fix and if not I’m asking for my money back. Unfortunately I sold my old 15 which worked perfectly.

If it really were the hardware, the forum would be awash in posts about this and it would be all over the trade press. It's not. I am not doubting that you have a problem. However, I do believe you are wrong about the "inherent fault." Why don't I have this problem if that's the case?

And a 17 Pro ad 17 Pro Max here, with zero Wifi connectivity issues. Of course we have never, nor will we ever install a VPN on our phones.

Richard Harris2 wrote:

It is - perhaps you are looking on the wrong fora.

Are you suggesting that the number of people who have this problem is massive, but almost none of them are posting here? If it were a huge problem, we would see it here. We don't.