A new iPhone bug has come to light that breaks your iPhone’s wireless functionality by merely connecting to a specific WiFi hotspot. The bug would render your iPhone unable to establish a WiFi connection, even if it is rebooted or the hotspot is renamed. The only way to fix our iPhone’s broken Wi-Fi feature was to reset the device’s network settings, which we describe how to do at the end of the article. A bug like this is serious, considering malicious actors could plant rogue WiFi hotspots in popular areas to bork iPhone devices connecting to them.
Source: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/iphone-bug-breaks-wifi-when-you-join-hotspot-with-unusual-name/