Slow Loading on iPhone

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I'm having this problem for months now. When browsing the web on my iPhone most websites seem te be stuck loading content. It takes >10 seconds to load sites like macrumors.com and 9to5mac.com. Other devices like Windows-laptop and MacBook don't have any issues.

Rejecting traffic with iptables didn't solve the issue, and I'm not running IPv6. I've edited /etc/pihole/setupVars.conf to try with the true IPv4 address, with 127.0.0.1 and 0.0.0.0. Does not help at all.

Is there anything else I can try?

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Can you check the DNS servers the iPhone is using? It might be trying to use the wrong DNS server.

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Tested on 2 iPhones which are using Pi-hole as DNS-server. If I set them to google/opennic-DNS, pages load fast instantly.

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Watch the log on pihole for requests that are blocked. Find those hosts and unblock them.

I discovered that Facebook would basically only half-load due to some hosts being blocked that are for load balancing.

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That's no solution. That wil disable the function of Pihole for those ads. The problem has something to do with the timeouts of SSL-traffic from Apple IOS.

'Half-load' would be fine, because it would be fast. The problem is not incomplete webpages, it takes 20seconds to load a whole.

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may have found different behaviour after the IOS11.2 update. Will test some more and report back

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I'm referring to the Facebook app on iOS not getting close to usable in my case.

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After a day of testing the slow loading seems resolved by the IOS11.2 update. Nothing else was changed.