iOS: Improve WiFi with Google's free Public DNS
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Third-party DNS servers can be faster than your ISP’s DNS servers. This isn’t guaranteed — it will depend on your geographic location, how close the third-party DNS servers are to you, and how slow your ISP’s DNS servers are.
If all you care about is speed, you may see an advantage from switching to a third-party DNS server — or you may not. To be sure, you should run a DNS benchmarking tool like Namebench, which will make DNS requests to your current DNS server and other DNS servers, testing how long each server takes to respond.
Popular third-party DNS providers like Google Public DNS or OpenDNS may be faster for you. Namebench will let you know if they are.
Setting up a manual DNS in iPhone’s WiFi preferences is know to create a massive difference. Sometimes, it’s not about the WiFi reception at all. Technically, by altering the DNS setting, we’re not boosting the WiFi reception. We’re only going through some other DNS to fetch data from the internet.
Google Public DNS is a free, global Domain Name System (DNS) resolution service, that you can use as an alternative to your current DNS provider. Find out more on https://developers.google.com.
To update your WiFi to use Google's DNS, follow the below procedure:
- Launch Settings (
) - Select
- Tap on the ‘i’ icon to the right of connected WiFi network’s name
- Scroll down and tap on DNS
- Enter the following DNS addresses as is, replacing the current.
- Restart WiFi on your iPhone
8.8.8.8, 8.8.4.4
We recommend rebooting your device - if you can't do this swipe up for Control Center tap the WiFi Toggle (Off) wait a few minutes then tap again (On) and you're good to go!
To update your WiFi to use Google's DNS, follow the below procedure:
- Launch Settings ()
- Select
- Tap on the ‘i’ icon to the right of connected WiFi network’s name
- Scroll down and tap on DNS
- Enter the following DNS addresses as is, replacing the current.
- Restart WiFi on your iPhone
208.67.222.222, 208.67.220.220
We recommend rebooting your device - if you can't do this swipe up for Control Center tap the WiFi Toggle (Off) wait a few minutes then tap again (On) and you're good to go!
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