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Cellular Completely Cutting Out Since Latest Beta
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Cell mast handovers can occur even while stationary. It doesn’t only handover because of movement, but also other factors like capacity
Using 4G only made no difference to me
I'm going back to iOS 17 for now. As much as I'm looking forward to iOS 18, a phone has to work as a phone, lol.
Far more stable on 4G.
I cannot say I’ve noticed a drop out.
Seems to be 5G causing the issues.
Sorry, spoke too soon,
It still drops out after being on hold for 30 minutes and speaking to someone it cut out !
I don’t even have RCS as an option (in France), but the signal was still going wild on PB2. Seems to be doing better after switching to 4G from 5G Auto.
Update after a longish drive from France to Switzerland this morning.
Set off with 4G only selected in Data, no issues whatsoever (no dropouts) for about 1h20 while in France. As soon as I entered Switzerland, however and the iPhone went into a roaming mode, I had about 7 dropouts in a space of 10 minutes (still on 4G).
So to me 5G or 4G did not seem to make a difference and the fact that the problems started with roaming made me think that it might have something to do with a cellular service provider’s modem profile (or whatever it is called). Sure enough, the Swiss profile (58.5.10) was older than the one used by my native French provider (58.6). This can explain why some of us have the dropouts and others do not.
Edit: still cannot quite figure out the pattern, as sometimes I have separate drop-outs for either of my two lines and sometimes - for both of them. Hopefully the next beta sorts them out.
Set off with 4G only selected in Data, no issues whatsoever (no dropouts) for about 1h20 while in France. As soon as I entered Switzerland, however and the iPhone went into a roaming mode, I had about 7 dropouts in a space of 10 minutes (still on 4G).
So to me 5G or 4G did not seem to make a difference and the fact that the problems started with roaming made me think that it might have something to do with a cellular service provider’s modem profile (or whatever it is called). Sure enough, the Swiss profile (58.5.10) was older than the one used by my native French provider (58.6). This can explain why some of us have the dropouts and others do not.
Edit: still cannot quite figure out the pattern, as sometimes I have separate drop-outs for either of my two lines and sometimes - for both of them. Hopefully the next beta sorts them out.
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Having the issue here on EE (UK) too. At home it’s not too bad and drops out very infrequently.
Just been to Gateshead and it was dropping out every few seconds for about 10 minutes until it eventually settled, my phone got a bit warm whilst it was doing this too.
It dropped out on the drive home once too.
Just been to Gateshead and it was dropping out every few seconds for about 10 minutes until it eventually settled, my phone got a bit warm whilst it was doing this too.
It dropped out on the drive home once too.
Yeah I hope so for next beta because only started happening on B4 !
Same thing here but a lot more then 5-6 times a day mine on TMobile and have Dual Lines both lines cut out at same exact time and every 30-45 seconds all day every day long. :-(
Next Beta is out, hope this fixes the issue. Had 3 cellular panics today (fewer than with the first B4 but still annoying).
Ya unfortunately if you have 18.1 beta the new beta is not out :-( and so connectivity issues def continue :-(
How many dropouts were you seeing on the old build over a 2 hour period?
No dropped calls or cellular loosing signal since installing B5 yesterday
New beta has an updated modem version (2.16.02) and I have not experienced the dropouts with it.