Updating to iOS 7 broke my Wi-Fi (and how I fixed it)
I have an iPad 2; it worked fine; I updated from iOS 6 to iOS 7. Immediately after updating, it could not connect to my home WiFi network (Airport Extreme).
All other devices on the network (MacBook, iPhone, iPod, Roku, Wii, wireless printers) continued to work fine. But his iPad would just keep spinning its wheel trying to connect. I did the usual, (reset Network settings, etc.) to no avail.
I called Apple Support (and had to pay for it). They said it was probably the antenna. They said it was beyond warranty.
I found it hard to believe that there was a problem with the antenna at the same exact time I did the update.
Here is what I did to fix it: I turned off the Airport password. The iPad 2 would connect fine! I tried an 8 character password; again the iPad 2 would connect fine. I then set the Airport back to its normal password (9 characters long), and the iPad 2 would no longer connect.
So I set the Airport back to 8 character password. And then had to go around, changing the wi-fi password on all the other devices on my network.
So the moral of the story: a 9 character Airport password will not work with iOS 7. An 8 character password does. I don't know about other lengths.
I hope somebody finds this useful.
My Airport has a 10-character password and I've had no problems.
Perhaps you mistyped cap/LC?
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