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Bluetooth and Wi-Fi Aren't Fully Disabled When Toggled Off in Control Center on iOS 11
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It is definitely broken. If Apple wants to add some new feature to temporarily disconnect from a network, then that would be fine. But off should be off.
Turning off these radios when you are not using them can significantly save battery run time. Especially on older hardware.
Most users that I have seen just leave wifi and bluetooth on all the time with no manual intervention. But is there 1% out there that wants some weird temporary disconnect? Yes of course.
Take a look at all four icons in the square. When airplane mode is off the icon is greyed out. Same as cellular.
Contrast that with how the WiFi and BT icons behave. Both are greyed off but that doesn’t mean the features are off. Totally diverges from previous behavior. And they want to blame the user for expecting previous behavior?
Agreed! I reported this as a bug over several of the betas and still don't completely understand why it has to work this way. It always makes me think that the on-off nature of the wi-fi and bluetooth buttons is broken. After waiting for a little while, the wi-fi and bluetooth indicators get diagonal lines drawn through them to show that the service is truly "off". It's pretty bad UI and UX in my opinion.
It would be great to have an option to remove them from the control center as they are now useless to me.
That may be true, but "on-off" buttons such as those in question which are surrounded by other "on-off" buttons should work as normal on-off buttons too, just like the others and not put the service into some intermediate phase.
Like a lot of things Apple these days. Wonder how long it will be until there is no "off" in the settings app. We now know that Apple knows what is best, and it is no longer your device. Or Apple just thinks its users are too dumb to understand what peripherals use BlueTooth. If they wanted the BlueTooth control to be more fine grained, they would have not put the real off button someplace else.
3D Touch would solve most of this issue, but those of us rocking SE's or older are boned. This "feature" is a deal breaker for me. My SE is already rock solid on 10.3.3. The control center is very convenient and works how I want it to currently. If a future update puts back in a true on/off choice for CC in settings, then I would probably upgrade. Until then I guess iOS 10 it is!
Secret National Security Order issued by the President at the direction of the NSA. Allows the agent at the next table complete access to your phone and 9 criminals out of 10 will think they turned it off.
That is what it achieves isn’t it? It keeps some connections open (the ones to other Apple devices, basically), but not the rest, and you won’t get it asking you to connect to anything. Dunno how that’ll affect battery - maybe they’ve done something clever so that their inter-Apple connections don’t use much power.
Nope, Apple recognized the need for finer grain control of bluetooth devices. Good for them, there is probably a need.
But then the Apple design mantra kicks in, simple button, unclear icon, lots of empty space around, no text, clean, thin, modern and we end up with another Apple usability fail. But it made Ive happy, he approved. Just more form over function.
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But only works at Panera or First Watch. If you are at some greasy spoon, then it does not force you.
Except the "wifi off button" does turn it off. Just not the "wifi disconnect button" in control center.
Control center been around that long? Dang I missed that for most of those years!Well that's certainly more intuitive- especially after 10 YEARS of it meaning off.
Um so you bought a $300+ connected watch and want it disconnected to save a little battery? Alreighty then. I suppose you should visit the settings app then and really turn off those settings. Or purchase a Timex for $25
Congratulations you still can! Apple left the ON/OFF setting just as it was so you can. They just added a new option for those who would like to do otherwise.
Well according to Apple I am
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208086 See where it uses words like DISCONNECT and OFF.
"It's 5 a.m. local time."
haha... I can imagine users counting down the seconds.
haha... I can imagine users counting down the seconds.
I’m confused. When I turn off WiFi from the control panel on my iPad and then check WiFi in settings it’s off. Shouldn’t it be on if the control center doesn’t actually turn it off?
I never knew this, but ya when u think about it its kinda sucks... 'off' should mean 'off' not still partially on..
Will this mean we will see another option to say "When Bluetooth is off, only these selected devices will be off as well" in future?
Similar to Background refreshing app individual status ...
Will this mean we will see another option to say "When Bluetooth is off, only these selected devices will be off as well" in future?
Similar to Background refreshing app individual status ...
LOL yeah just like Apple iOS releases. Counting the days, hrs and minutes then pressing check for updates starting at 9:45 PST then complaining about the entire thing once they have it!
I never claimed to represent the entire population, but there's no evidence that your opinion is any different.
It looks like mine is working like it always has. I always leave my iPad in airplane mode and enable WiFi when I need it and disable it when I’m done. With airplane mode on the control panel works as it should. Off is off
I don't really mind the iOS 11 approach to these switches once I figured out what the heck was going on. Now if they change it up again I'll probably be annoyed since I took the trouble to get it and get used to it already.
I do like being able to disconnect fast from stuff like a BT speaker or a network without disrupting the more background-y functions.
However, it's true that a) it's not intuitive at all this way and b) not going to save any juice to use only the control center switches. The latter can annoy people who are more likely to have to recharge during the day and are not near juice all the time. Or annoy people who regard the half-off as just a sneaky way to keep tracking people regarding location services etc.
Maybe Apple should stick controls for absolute-off of WiFi and BT on the control center panel as well. But then why wouldn't 3D touch on the original icons there be good enough? Eventually all the iOS devices will have 3D touch.
Putting up the diagonal line through the icon at turnoff time in the Control Center instead of as reaction later to a Settings turnoff would probably reassure users that they had pressed hard enough on the icons in Control Center. I guess the problem there would be if you press too hard and only mean to disconnect from network connections or BT speakers then you've got to go back to Settings to re-establish connections.
There's probably not going to be any way to make everyone happy on this issue.
I do like being able to disconnect fast from stuff like a BT speaker or a network without disrupting the more background-y functions.
However, it's true that a) it's not intuitive at all this way and b) not going to save any juice to use only the control center switches. The latter can annoy people who are more likely to have to recharge during the day and are not near juice all the time. Or annoy people who regard the half-off as just a sneaky way to keep tracking people regarding location services etc.
Maybe Apple should stick controls for absolute-off of WiFi and BT on the control center panel as well. But then why wouldn't 3D touch on the original icons there be good enough? Eventually all the iOS devices will have 3D touch.
Putting up the diagonal line through the icon at turnoff time in the Control Center instead of as reaction later to a Settings turnoff would probably reassure users that they had pressed hard enough on the icons in Control Center. I guess the problem there would be if you press too hard and only mean to disconnect from network connections or BT speakers then you've got to go back to Settings to re-establish connections.
There's probably not going to be any way to make everyone happy on this issue.
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Well, probably not. I am in 10.3.2 and it's been several times that I have found, after putting my iPhone in airplane more just before going to bed, that messages and notifications came through during the night. I even made a video of how -while in airplane mode in this particular situation- I could not browse the web in Safari (getting a message of Wifi needs to be turned on) but Whatsapp was still getting connectivity.
I always wondered if anyone was getting a similar issue.
Most annoying. Don't like it one bit. Actually misleading and a stupid waste of battery. Control Center? Now that is misleading because you don't control the radios.
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Then give me a shortcut to it.
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Then give me a shortcut to it.