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The iOS 6 update broke wifi for many people for the same reason -- it would hit a certain Apple page to determine if there was through connectivity, and if that

by personZ 12y ago

The iOS 6 update broke wifi for many people for the same reason -- it would hit a certain Apple page to determine if there was through connectivity, and if that test failed it would decide that the wifi connection needed authentication. Apple fixed it by putting up the page it was expecting. http://www.iphonehacks.com/2012/09/fix-wi-fi-connectivity-issue-after-upgrading-to-ios-6.html http://www.iphonehacks.com/2012/09/fix-wi-fi-connectivity-is... It seems to be a recurring tactic.

zyxley 12y ago
As of late Apple seems to do better at this by using a variety of different domain names (apparently pulled from their secondary 'we don't want somebody else using our product names' set, since they include ones like 'ibooks.info'), which the phone seems to rotate through so it's not relying on a single DNS result or server.