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Your Phone’s ‘5G’ Icon And Signal Bars Are Lying To You

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By Shira Ovide

 

Look at the top right corner of your phone. You might see an icon with “5G” and another with vertical bars showing the strength of your internet connection.

Those symbols don’t mean what you think they do.

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If your phone shows “5G,” you’re not necessarily connected to the latest and zippiest cellphone network technology. It might just mean that 5G connections are available nearby.

And the bars are a cellular version of a shrug. There is no standard measure of how much signal strength each bar represents.

“The connection icon is a lie,” said Avi Greengart, president of the technology analysis firm Techsponential.

I’ll explain how to make sense of your fibbing phone and what you can do about it.

Why are we walking around hunting for more bars?!

The number of bars you see is a best guess and not a precise measurement of the strength of your phone’s connection. “It just means you’ve got a signal,” said Ken Hyers, director of device technologies for research firm TechInsights.

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