From launch until yesterday, my Max has been running circles around my iphone 6s plus and Qualcomm X, even in weak signal areas. Yesterday, it acted like it had hit a brick wall and couldn't come close to the speeds of my iphone 6s plus (only other phone I have left to test with). First time it has had the symptoms everyone on here has been talking about. When I say slow, I'm talking less than a meg, while the 6s plus was hitting about 10 megs. Today, everything is back to normal and the max is crushing the 6s plus. Only difference I can see, is yesterday was a cloudy day, and today it is clear one. Sometimes weather can affect reception, but I don't know if that was the problem or something else. I really hope it wasn't the weather, because that starts to point toward the antennae as the problem. I hope to keep this very expensive phone for a few years, but not if it's going to have receptions problems. Fingers crossed for a software fix.
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iPhone XS Max Is the mobile reception on the xs Max even worse than iPhone X ?
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I think there will be more and more people finally realizing that it’s the antenna!
what makes you think it's the antenna, iPhone SX Max on T-Mobile, Honolulu, Hawaii
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I’m on tmo and I get my phone today. Hopefully it’s consistent with your pic. Lol
By chance you know the build date, factory? There’s a thread on the forums showing how to decipher the serial #
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/iphone-xs-and-iphone-xs-max-antenna-issues-build-date.2146749/
Went to my local mall cellular dead spot again, XSMax still holding service longer than my 7+ did. :S
You’re showing four bars of signal strength. You’d probably get good speeds with no antenna. Just kidding a bit. But you need to do that test where service is marginal.
here's with 3 bars
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I got mine on launch day, so received on Sept. 21 and its gold, 512GB sim free
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Now you get to wait for a takedown notice from Apple, saying your copy of the deleted post cannot remain online. Don’t worry I saved a copy.
Apple cannot rightfully demand the picture posted here be removed.
F=Zhengzhou, X=2nd half year 2018, D=11th week, 9/9-9/15
Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to drive around that island of yours and look for one bar areas. Then report back! Actually, you might find it hard to report back from a low signal area.
I forgot to thank you a couple weeks ago for the information I appreciate it!
I used Coconut Battery Plus, which will tell you many specs on your device, including the number of battery cycles, age of the battery, manufacturing date etc. I don't know if there is a windows version, but I use it on my MacBook Pro.
Yes my 2nd one is working perfectly fine. I made many calls today and it never once dropped connection, nor did it drop to 4G or 3G. Internet has been speedy in a place where sometimes on my 8+ it was dawg slow.
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It's not an IOS app.. I use it on my MacOS via my MacBook Pro.
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Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to drive around that island of yours and look for one bar areas. Then report back! Actually, you might find it hard to report back from a low signal area.
i think this is the best I can do, I'll be in Guam Friday afternoon, I'll try there since I have the T-MO ONE Plus, it roams there
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Thanks. I'm assuming that it's strictly a GSM phone then, which makes me wonder if some people coming from GSM to the MAX are seeing similar performance because they are both Intel-based systems; whereas, those who have used a Qualcomm-based phone are experiencing degraded service with the Intel design of the XS?
It was a Qualcomm 7+ . Made sure right after I bought it. It was carrier-free and purchased from the Apple Store, not from Tmobile.
I've now tested the Max in two places where I definitively had poor service on my 7+. The mall, and a local restaurant.
In the mall on the 7+, I would always instantly lose service as I walked into the Apple Store. Now I can hold a bar or two for a while and get Google search results to load. I still lose service there eventually, but it's definitely not any worse than before.
In the restaurant, its a similar story.
Ironically, the only thing I've noticed not performing as well as the 7+ is the 5ghz wifi. Speed is fine, but it gives out about 6 feet closer than the 7+ did.
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