Apple’s latest batch of phones, the iPhone 17, 17 Pro, 17 Pro Max, and Air, have only been in stores since Friday, but they’ve already been hit by complaints that Wi-Fi on the devices doesn’t always work as it should. “CarPlay not reliable with iOS 26 and iPhone Air,” they say. Unusable.” And another complains: “Having same Wi-Fi issues on my 17 Pro Max, Wi-Fi [drops] randomly and repeatedly with no service at all while my 16 Pro Max [works] flawlessly.”A Redditor, meanwhile, sums up the situation as “iPhone 17 Wi-Fi turns off and on every time I unlock the iPhone OR swipe down and bring up the lock screen (Notification Center). Regardless of whether it can affect older phones, Apple will be looking into the reports and deciding whether it needs a fix. In fact, it may have already done so: some complainants report that installing the first beta of iOS 26.1 fixes the problem.