AWDL causing persistent WiFi Connectivity Issues.

(MacBook M3 Pro - macOS Sequoia 15.2)

Hello! I’ve been experiencing constant WiFi connectivity issues with my MacBook M3 Pro for the past 6 months, and it’s driving me crazy. My MacBook is practically unusable.

Initially, I assumed it was my WiFi setup, but after some thought, I realized my work MacBook (M1) and personal iPhone have never had these problems with my home WiFi.

After researching online, I was shocked to see how many people are facing similar issues. Here’s the problem:

• The WiFi connection is so slow that even basic websites won’t load.
• Disabling and re-enabling WiFi temporarily fixes the issue for about 5 minutes, but the connection becomes unusable again. This makes it impractical to keep doing this repeatedly.

One solution I found on Reddit and other forums involves disabling the AWDL interface with the following command:

sudo ifconfig awdl0 down

Running this command after toggling WiFi on/off does help temporarily, extending the fix to about 15 minutes. However, the AWDL interface reactivates automatically (running sudo ifconfig awdl0 shows it as "active" again instead of "inactive"), which is extremely frustrating.

I understand AWDL is used for features like AirDrop and Bluetooth, so it seems disabling it permanently using some bash script isn’t the best solution out there.

I’ve already updated macOS to the latest version 15.2 (previously on 14.x), but the issue persists.

Is there a permanent solution from Apple to fix this? My MacBook is unfortunately unusable in its current state, and I’m desperate for a fix.

Thanks!