Source: Harry Guinness, HowToGeek.com,, June 11, 2018
There are dozens of factors that can affect your cell service—from your distance to a tower to the weather—but what can you do if, for some reason, your iPhone suddenly isn’t getting a good signal? Let’s find out.
“Have you tried turning it off and on again?” It’s clichéd advice for a reason: rebooting stuff fixes a lot of problems. Your iPhone’s cell signal is often one of them.
So much goes on behind the scene in any operating system that troubleshooting them all individually is next to impossible. Instead, by turning your iPhone off and then back on, you get it to start everything afresh. If, for example, it’s stuck on the 3G network rather than the 4G one, turning it off and on will force it to reconnect to the network. Similarly, if it’s a background process that’s causing the issue, that process will be terminated and restarted by a reboot.
