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10th Aug 2015

Apple are going to fix one of the most annoying Wi-Fi features on an iPhone

This could be very handy

Alan Loughnane

Will this new feature help ease your web surfing problems?

We all know the struggle, you’re on your iPhone about to watch a hilarious gif of a cat getting started by a lizard or a cute dog doing an even cuter sneeze, and it freezes.

The Wi-Fi connection has dropped to one bar which, in other words means, you ain’t getting jack sh*t from the router.

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That means you have to go to the router and give it a bash (reset it) or else you must turn the Wi-Fi off manually on your phone, not a mammoth task but annoying all the same.

Now Apple have created handy little feature on iOS9 which automatically switches from your Wi-Fi to your mobile data if your Wi-Fi connection is poor.

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According to 9to5mac, a new cellular setting called Wi-Fi Assist allows the phone to automatically switch to a cellular data connection when you have a bad Wi-Fi connection.

Great news for those of you who don’t have time to be waiting on slow Wi-Fi although there has been no official release date for iOS9 yet…

Hat-tip to 9to5mac.

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