See your TRUE signal strength on iPhone

You can’t trust signal bars. If you really want to see your cellular signal strength, you have to use the hidden Field Test app.

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[georgimihaylov]

Thank you very much, thanks to you I was able to verify the best settings and get more stable reception without interruptions. Sometimes the highest maximum upload and download speeds are not required. Sufficient but reliable is needed.

[billmelot]

when i follow your directions I get a completely different menu on my phone than what you show.

[shahwaqas]

everything was very clear and helpful-thank you. but why you kept calling C instead of S (that was a confusing part)

[siaband]

Thank you 🙏 is there a way to do this also for WiFi measurement? There are not really apps for local WiFi measurements in App Store. For android there are plenty.

[timothygoggins]

This was very clear and helpful. It's super helpful to see the actual data. Thanks

[russellchevrette]

I am surrounded by densely wooded hills and all the cell towers are on the other side of the hills from my house. To get any signal at all, I had invest in an expensive booster and an antenna on my chimney. Even then, only a barely functional signal indoors when standing under the indoor transmitter (none outdoors). With the help of this advice, I was able to twirl my antenna in 8 different compass pointings and select the best. Now I have moderately ok signal strength and can transmit a photo most of the time.

[traceye.]

This is so helpful, thank you. My new iPhone 15is a giant paperweight now. Terrible cellular strength, constant drooped calls. Poor quality.

[sv]

I have a iPhone 7 and I did this and it has more options to do things and Idk what to do

[rotfan]

On my iPhone with iOS 14 it showed measured average RSRP but not RSRP0 seemed to just take a one time measurement when I made the call but we could be on a different version of iOS. Or Verizon May only allow one measurement in a certain amount of time?

[BenjaminWasHere]

My all Matrix display window looks completely different than yours. I'm running version 15.3.1 and on iPhone 12.

[georgeaston]

What do you do if it says waiting for update

[rjc.]

Rsrq measures up to 29-37 and rsrp0 is -102 is that good

[BradMangas]

You don't seem to know the difference between "r" and "c".

[Richard-gicj]

By chance do you know or could you explain what? MCC 302. MNC 220 means. Please and thank you very much.

[askhento]

For people from 2021:
I tried to find same options as in video, but it seems that they have changed. So I eventually found them (I think!)

For LTE you need to be already connected and then you will see something like : "Connected mode LTE-infrafrequnecy Measu..."
Then "Measured Neighbour Cells", wait and numbers 0, 1, ... will come up.

For 3G you need to disable LTE in settings (Mobile Data Options), and then the menu will be different again. You will see "UMTS Cell Environement" -> "Neightbor Cells" -> "UMTS Set" -> 0, 1, ... will come up.

So I am not a pro, but you will see numbers in dBm and for me it seems to work very well as a tool to find a place with better signal.

[mrx-inxh]

hi, would the parameters displayed depend on the carrier? I don't have "rsrp0" in my menu but have "rscp" and "rssi". Thx

[alexnajar]

Mine goes to a grey screen that says dashboard

[MADRE-GUY]

doesnt work non of theses lines come up on my 2020se

[juliea]

If my signals are not good, do I call my provider? what do I do with this info now

[harryberry]

This doesn't work for me I could access the "field test" but it doesn't look anything like what you're showing in this video...maybe the app or whatever it is has changed