Status Bar: Only 'iPhone' instead of Bars & Carrier

[criticalmind]

I just updated my iPhone 5 and iPad 3 to iOS 9. Everything is just fine for now except for one thing: My iPhone 5 just refuses to show me any signal strength, carrier name or on which radio I am on (LTE, 3G, E). I am on T-Mobile Germany and mobile internet works, I can make and receive calls.

The even more strange part: My iPad 3, which is on o2 Germany, does show all these information.

Luckily I am not dependent on this iPhone since I still have my daily driver, the iPhone 6 on 8.1.2, but nevertheless I would still want to know what could be the reason and if it's a bug or a feature.

Edit: FYI: I made a fresh install and restored it. Also, I rebooted it several times and also swaped SIM cards but still no avail ...

 

[Yun0]

bug either apple or the carrier. iphone 6 with rogers is displaying as it always has, rogers carrier version is at 20.5.2

 

[criticalmind]

bug either apple or the carrier. iphone 6 with rogers is displaying as it always has, rogers carrier version is at 20.5.2

Probably the carrier I guess ... But I do also have the carrier version (Telekom.de 20.5.2)

 

[DrBlueBox]

I had this issue too - Hard reset fixed it

 

[TOMIMOT]

seems like a bug, others are having the same issue hence the other threads popping up

 

[Traverse]

Man, you had me thinking we could now high the carrier name. :/

 

[Merkie]

Man, you had me thinking we could now high the carrier name. :/

Yeah, same for me. It doesn't make sense that Apple wants to show me the name of my carrier (which I've had for years so I know it by now) every single second I use my iPhone. What's the point in that? Put it on the lockscreen, sure, whatever man, but I don't want to see it beyond that.

 

[Menel]

Yeah, same for me. It doesn't make sense that Apple wants to show me the name of my carrier (which I've had for years so I know it by now) every single second I use my iPhone. What's the point in that? Put it on the lockscreen, sure, whatever man, but I don't want to see it beyond that.

When you roam, it shows the carrier you are roaming on.
That detail can be important depending in what service plan features you have.

 

[Jmausmuc]

Yeah, same for me. It doesn't make sense that Apple wants to show me the name of my carrier (which I've had for years so I know it by now) every single second I use my iPhone. What's the point in that? Put it on the lockscreen, sure, whatever man, but I don't want to see it beyond that.

Would be so cool to just be able to hide it and only show signal strength and network status...

 

[criticalmind]

Okay, I shut the iPhone 5 down and a few hours later, I booted it up (took ages, way longer than on 8.4) and voilá, the carrier name was there.

 

[FNH15]

Resetting network settings worked for me.

 

[kissmo]

someone suggested I enable 3g and restart and it worked.