My spouse recently updated her iPhone SE to iOS 18. Since then, she can’t connect to the Wi-Fi network. Whenever I try to connect, it prompts for the Wi-Fi password, I enter it correctly, but then it immediately says unable to connect. Nothing at the router or Wi-Fi AP level has changed. When I look at the logs, I can see it tries to connect then disconnects and just repeats the same error. There is no access list in use at the AP, nothing restricting the devices from connecting. Every other Wi-Fi device in the house is connected and working, including my own iPhone which is still on iOS 17.
Has anyone else encountered Wi-Fi issues since upgrading to iOS 18? I’ve already tried resetting the network settings on her device to no avail.
Can someone point me to instructions for enabling wireless debug logging?
I’ve tried changing the authentication from wpa2-psk to both wpa2-psk and wpa3-psk to no avail. This Audience uses wifi3 to communicate in mesh back to another Audience on wifi3.
Normally I’d agree, but the spouse took the phone to other locations with public Wi-Fi and it allegedly worked fine. Bring it back home to the MikroTik network and no luck.
I had the same issue and I fixed it by following a suggestion I found on Reddit: just disable the private address, forget the network, reconnect, and then re-enable the private address again. Anyway, no one seems to know exactly why this happens with iOS 8.
Trying now with debug logging on for the wireless. Phone claims the password is incorrect, logs show attached screen captures when attempting to connect.
Makes absolute zero sense. No clear explanation in the logs.
I’ve noticed that if I keep tapping “Join” on the phone, eventually the screen locks up at the password prompt. When it locks up, I can see it connected to the AP. Of course, the phone is useless if it just locks up since you have to force close the Settings app and then it doesn’t connect.
Or… try wifi configuration using defaults (only country is required) - just to see if work with iOS 18. Specifically trying ft=no, since that seems an area that could be broken. Or, perhaps try the 7.16rc “testing” with your current configuration to see if some random fix in RouterOS fixes this - there are always some wifi tweaks in each release. Both might be good step before giving up to downgrade.
I have an iPhone 12 with iOS 18 that connects to wAPacR with wifi-qcom-ac (and defaults with DFS disabled) - so I don’t think it’s a generic problem. Still could be a bug here, just figuring if it’s iOS (since it just came out) or Mikrotik isn’t so easy for random wi-fi issues.
Yeah, forgot to mention we’re using 7.15.3 with FT enabled. I remember some Apple devices (at least in the past) could have issues with mixed languages on APs within the same SSID domain. Anyway, troubleshooting Wi-Fi on Apple devices can be pretty tricky so instead of wasting time with trial and error it’s usually faster to check the device logs to find the real problem.
OT: it really bugs me that Apple require an A17 chip to enable ChatGPT integration in iOS 18. It’s so very typical of Apple always finding new ways to push people to upgrade their hardware.
I have had lots of problems when setting encryption to everything except TKIP (Android and Windows). Can you give it a try (assuming you use Winbox) by unselecting everything, and collaps the encryption part?
Like I said earlier, it’s an intermittent issue with Apple iOS 18. And honestly, why waste time with pointless trial and error when you can just check the device Wi-Fi logs to find the real problem faster?
The same company which added a deliberate slowing down of older HW and it still surprises you ?
What do you think MS is doing with their Co-Pilot story ? Same purpose. Push HW sales … (MS license will come with it).
They all use these tricks …
I have the same problem and I think it’s worth finding a solution.
It doesn’t work with my Mikrotik environment, other router hardware has worked.
I already had an iPhone15 running the iOS 18.1 beta, I still have NO problems with this phone.
But all other devices that were updated to iOS 18 yesterday cannot connect.
I also have the problem with a MacBook on MacOS 15 and the behavior is the same.
I have already completely reinstalled the MacBook, but unfortunately this does not solve the problem.
@erlinden: Sorry, I meant to say regional settings.
@holvoetn: Yeah, no surprise there! But it still bugs the hell out of me every time it pops up..
@dude2k: check out the WiFi logs and help others by analyze the root cause. Btw, what build are you using? Fwiw, I’m still running macOS 15 RC on an M2 MBA with no issues (so far anyway!) using AX with FT.
Only as a side note, in the few “official” videos from Mikrotik I have watched (I simply cannot bear videos, but that’s just me) I have noticed that the good Mikrotik guys often use Macs, so I believed that they are “Apple users” (last time I had a Mac and an iPad I was practically forced to also get an iPhone because of the interconnectedness of all things Apple, soon after I thankfully managed to quit the addiction ), thus I expected that Apple devices were common enough among Mikrotik developers and were tested much more than other “random” Android devices.
