topic Re: Disable 4G and 5G in Apple

Disable 4G and 5G

Agrado — Mon, 11 Sep 2023 16:19:28 GMT

At home I appear to have full 3G signal. However that's no use to me at all, because within seconds the phone goes "Full 3G signal? Rubbish! Old hat! Why would I want to use that when I can just about see 1 tremulous bar of 5G signal, which is more than enough to download a single web page if you're prepared to wait several minutes? I shall switch you to that immediately!"

Is there any way to tell the phone to use 3G - or preferably, to go with whatever is the strongest signal? I can disable 5G in the settings, but all that does is fall back to 4G, which has the exact same problem as the 5G signal.

Re: Disable 4G and 5G

MI5 — Mon, 11 Sep 2023 16:23:04 GMT

@Agrado

If there's no option for 3g in your network settings there's nothing you can do unfortunately.

You phone is programmed to use the highest network it can see which isn't always the best one.

Re: Disable 4G and 5G

Agrado — Tue, 12 Sep 2023 11:32:48 GMT

Ah, that's annoying. 3G is *much* faster than 5G here 😞

Re: Disable 4G and 5G

Enlli — Tue, 12 Sep 2023 11:49:35 GMT

I think the 3G option is being removed on US centric iPhones

My Galaxt S23 plus allows 3G / 2G automatic

or 3G only

Re: Disable 4G and 5G

MI5 — Tue, 12 Sep 2023 12:10:12 GMT

It's an O2 decision on iPhones as it is controlled by the carrier profile.

Re: Disable 4G and 5G

Enlli — Tue, 12 Sep 2023 12:20:13 GMT

Reason 614 for me not to get an iPhone 🤣

Re: Disable 4G and 5G

MI5 — Tue, 12 Sep 2023 12:33:49 GMT

In preparation for the big turn off I imagine.