WiFi in locked (sleeping) mode

[emadernest]

My WiFi always sleeps when my iphone7 (on ios 10.1.1) sleeps, I have tried resetting WiFi connection, restart, reset all settings and also hard restarting (by pressing lock & volume dwn)
Any tactful ideas? I am disparate

 

[kch50428]

Working as designed... wifi goes into a 'hot standby mode' when the phone sleeps and gets used as needed while the phone sleeps.

 

[njlx2016]

Yeah as long as it reconnects when you wake the device up, there's no problem here.

 

[emadernest]

Working as designed... wifi goes into a 'hot standby mode' when the phone sleeps and gets used as needed while the phone sleeps.

 

[emadernest]

Not at all, I have tried sending whatsapp message from another phone while the iphone sleeps, the message sent but not received until I woke up the iphone no matter what time elapsed. It never reconnects to wifi unless awakened manually.