AP with watchos 4, conneted to iPhone even the Bluetooth are off

[mykelala01]

in the past you need to turn on the bluetooth on your iPhone. For Apple watch (series 1 and 2)to be connected, to your phone. Now you don’t even need to turn on your bluetooth... I am missing something is this a new technology or something?

 

[nws0291]

The control center does not turn off the bluetooth radio anymore in iOS 11. It only drops connections except a few things like an apple watch. https://www.macrumors.com/2017/09/20/bluetooth-wifi-not-disabled-ios-11-control-center/

 

[fischersd]

Apple Watch will also connect to the iPhone over Wifi if Bluetooth is unavailable (usually when you're out of range of the iPhone's Bluetooth).

 

[dave006]

It is a feature of iOS 11. Bluetooth and Wi-Fi now work differently than in previous releases. "Even when toggled off in Control Center on an iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch running iOS 11 and later, Bluetooth and Wi-Fi will continue to be available for AirDrop, AirPlay, Apple Pencil, Apple Watch, Location Services, and Continuity features like Handoff and Instant Hotspot."

Dave

 

[fischersd]

Hmm. Turning off Bluetooth in settings on the iPhone, the Watch should have switched over to Wifi, but it didn't. (though the iPhone did lose connection to it when I did so).

Rebooting the Watch did nothing to correct this.

Series 0.

Anyone else seeing this? (that the Wifi radio has been disabled on the watch?)