Sadly (and similarly anecdotally) yes.

Toggling airplane mode basically “turns off and on again” your phone’s network interfaces, resets the routing table, and, I think, flushes the DNS caches. I don’t have the problem so much with wi-fi unless I roam between my main and guest networks which use different DNS records for some of my self-hosted apps. (e.g. the “internal” DNS record gets resolved on main wifi, gets cached, and then is inaccessible on guest wifi until the cached record expires).

Mainly, I just toggle the cellular data since my primary issue is that sometimes calls/texts stop working without notice.

TIL people have to reset their phone’s internet connection.

That’s the first thing I do, and the first thing I recommend.

same here, it somehow also fixes miracast issues with samsung tablets at work

I had to do it with my previous Samsungs! I’ve not had to do it with this one so far. Another option is picking another network manually and then putting it back to automatic.

I often have to toggle airplane mode when I take the subway. After it loses signal, it won’t reconnect until I do. Older android phone.

Lately I have to restart my internet from the settings every couple of days- I didn’t actually think to use airplane mode, will be trying that next time.

Edit: so tested it soomer than I thought and yep, sure enough airplane mode fixes it. So thanks for this life hack. Good to know I’m not the only one as well.

I have to do this multiple times a day. It’s not just Internet, sometimes voicemails and text messages will come through immediately after.