Plugging In Iphone Disables Wifi

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So I may not be much help here as this situation has not occurred with me despite using LL 3.8 and 5.0 with more than 2 dozen old and even older laptops.
However, my suggestion until,someone more knowledgeable replies, is what about picking up a WiFi USB?

I have resorted to using these on occasion when the WiFi stops working on some of my student placed laptops. The majority are plug and play, just make sure they are linux compatible, and they are very reasonable cost wise. I haven’t bought one recently, but in Canada they are probably between $10-15 Canadian so converted to USD they might be free (lol  :011

I have tried Wi-Fi USB in the past and it doesn't seem to fix the issue.  If it does its only temporary.  When I worked at a machine shop the CNC machines ran on really old computers and were very basic.  Every time someone plugged in their phone the Wi-Fi magically went away.  Management loved it!  It kept people offline while working.  But eventually we would find times where we actually needed them to connect to the network, and we tried the USB adapters, sometimes it worked, sometimes it didn't. 

Thanks for the reply!  I appreciate it!
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