None of these "solutions" are acceptable. What's required is for Apple to investigate the problem and fix it in the operating system. All these endless comments about adjusting DNS settings, toggling private mode, disabling VPN, sitting closer to the router and so on are not solutions. They're a waste of time and may even mislead some people into thinking they can somehow fix this problem themselves. They can't. The problem is THE OPERATING SYSTEM. And even if manually setting Google's DNS (8.8.8.8 etc) did work, why should anyone have to do that? Nowhere in the iOS 14 publicity does it say "if you want WiFi, you have to use Google's DNS servers" or "if you want to use a VPN, sorry you can't." All anyone here can do is express their frustration that Apple has released a build of iOS that clearly contains very significant bugs. Copying and pasting spammy "fixes" from bogus online help sites doesn't help anyone.

Everything was fine before iOS 14 (and still is for every non-iOS 14 device in this house). I'm not using a VPN, I've tried private address on/off, factory resetting the entire phone and wifi still unpredictably drops with iOS 14.2. I'm not looking for a haphazard workaround ("use a fixed IP address", "change DHCP settings", "change your DNS", "sit closer to the router", "restart your equipment more often", "make sure you disable 5Ghz", "only use 5Ghz", "try a different router" etc) I'm looking for Apple to take responsibility for their failure and fix it, or at least allow a downgrade to a working iOS 13 in the meantime. Trouble is... does anyone at Apple even read these discussions? Why care about just 170 or so users out of however many millions?