Even if you don't our can't connect to those wifi hotspots, it will still use them for location info.
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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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Even if you don't our can't connect to those wifi hotspots, it will still use them for location info.
I don't know why they have to make things more and more awkward to use with every update. Theres a lot of people jumping over to android anyway without pushing them
Everything except the landing gear.
it is a good feature, BUT apple needs to add 3d touch to these...so when you 3d touch on them to turn them completely off when you the user want..thats all
This was mentioned a billion times during beta testing, Apple refused to change it at that time. Hopefully now that IOS 11 is out in the wild they'll take a look at this more seriously.
This is why people say apple boxes people in. It's stuff like this that makes me want to go back to Android.
Stop telling me how to use my device.
I'm sure Apple did this for absolutely no reason. Panic, hysteria, and complaining will be the most effective way to manage this going forward. Don't waste you're time trying to understand it, or test it out.
I guess that's the time Craig goes to work.... maybe?
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Seems quite late for that. I know people who wake up at 4 AM on a regular basis. I think the earliest I've ever needed to be up was 2 AM to catch a flight. Seems somewhere between 2 and 4 would work better for that purpose.
Yeah... it doesn't really make much sense to me. As for the "flag" idea (option for complete shutoff), that sounds so very... Android.
I'm an Android user. Connecting and disconnecting a Bluetooth device from lock takes about half the steps on my 2 year old Android phone than on the iPhone 7. Apple could have at least added some more functionality to these buttons, given their new gung-ho approach to gestures. Are they deliberately avoiding Android-like simplicity at their own expense?
This is an incredibly stupid and annoying change. When I turn something off I want it to actually turn off.
Not to mention security and battery concerns.
Not to mention security and battery concerns.
They've got it the wrong way round - you should have to elect within settings to exempt wifi and Bluetooth shut-off from the specific cases of the function of the control center switch.
they must be kidding. So switched off doesn't always mean that it's switched off. Sometimes I really hate them, they always know what is the best for you..
This was widely talked about during beta phase. Apple said it was intentional. It makes CC worse in terms of functionality compared to IOS 10. If this worked perfectly prior to IOS 11, who was the idiot who thought about changing its behaviour?
I was briefly annoyed early in the beta testing because it wasn't the functionality i expected. But after using it like this for a couple of months, I believe the new iOS 11 CC functionality is the best default option. They do what most users need them to do most of the time. If you are in the minority, you can go into Settings. (I do think they should add 3D Touch options.)
Because that's when Tim Cook starts his workout every morning. Fairly arbitrary, but they couldn't think of anything better, so there you go!
For Wifi, I suspect this was at least partially done to combat the problem so brilliantly described in this xkcd:
https://xkcd.com/1865/
That is, you are on a bad one-bar wifi connection that stops loading anything and you turn off wifi to get going again, but then you forget to turn it back on. This is the main reason I ever turn off wifi nowadays, so I can see the use of this. BUT it should have been made optional with a force-touch press and not the default press in CC.
For Bluetooth I never want this. When I turn it off Bluetooth it's because I'm trying to save power, period.
https://xkcd.com/1865/
That is, you are on a bad one-bar wifi connection that stops loading anything and you turn off wifi to get going again, but then you forget to turn it back on. This is the main reason I ever turn off wifi nowadays, so I can see the use of this. BUT it should have been made optional with a force-touch press and not the default press in CC.
For Bluetooth I never want this. When I turn it off Bluetooth it's because I'm trying to save power, period.
Yeah, but not everybody is public/developer beta tester.
