Carrier Why can't the new 5g phones hand off to LTE when 5g is bad?

[whattodo11]

Interested to hear if I am doing something wrong because in my area 5G for Verizon is putrid. I can barely stream music when I drive thru town. The service is so bad. With my 11 pro I at least hold a signal to text and stream music. So my question is why isn't there a way for the phone to pass off from 5G to LTE? Or am I missing something and a complete idiot lol

 

[addamas]

Try to go following steps and force LTE manually. It should switch to lower gen but not always does :/ (iPhone 11Pro sadly is not 5G compatible so could not test - 12 and newer does support)

Settings > Cellular > Cellular Data options > Voice and Data

Here you can manually change it or you can create a Shortcut and change in based on place / connection to Bluetooth or by clicking button.

I am not sure about switching from 5G to LTE but it should as it does when LTE is on and phone switches to 3G or 2G in worst case.

Sadly my carrier in Poland disabled forcing 2G so I have 1/4 cell level even on 3G instead of 3-4 on 2G