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iOS 11.2 Beta 3 Introduces Pop-up to Explain Control Center Wi-Fi/Bluetooth Functionality
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Because you are forced to by the 5 AM rule
Yeah. Same here. It’s too bad they don’t have some kind of assistant to the Wi-Fi to automatically switch to cellular when Wi-Fi connectivity is poor.
And what’s with the AT&T Wi-Fi looking like junk in that Control Center pic? Can’t they get the figured out? They’ve had the notch there for a while already. What did they plan to do with long carrier names?
iOS 12: Your phone will turn off, but it will still be available to track your location and receive phone calls.
I am guessing they had a lot of support tickets with people saying their Apple Watch stopped working and it turned out they turned off their bluetooth because they think it saves them battery.
LOL OK.... surrrrrreeee. Yeah, you are soooo correct. Having 2 antennas broadcasting DOes nOt drain extra batter.. uummkkkaaayy.
You are not being saturated by your device in your pocket within 5mm to your skin with other antennas, now are you?
You might want to research the effects of radiation and antennas from your cell phones before responding like fake news.
Both of your responses are false, SORRY.
It scrolls by and is faded out on the edges when the name is longer than the notch.
never seen a measurable difference in batterylife when i kept manually turning wifi/bluetooth on/off..
so i just keep it on and don't seem to have any battery problems.
Cuz this would be an option and this is Apple soooo
You can always turn it off completely from settings, which has been available since the beginning essentially.
The first has been proven, google it. And when you turn off wifi, it doesn't turn off the wifi hot spot broadcasting the wifi radio waves hitting your body. Also, you should avoid that bright thing in the sky it blast you all day with radiation.
Just cuz you ain't seen it don't mean it's not happening. Your battery will last longer if you turn off extra broadcasting radios. Especially ones you are not using. All 3 antennas are constantly looking for connections, reading the connections it finds to see if it should connect all that work takes power to do so. Trust me is uses more battery. I can go all day on lte alone, but 1/2 or 3/4 of a day with all antennas on. Give is a personal test.
What’s elegant about taking out my phone when I get home and having to turn on Wi-Fi because Wi-Fi Assist didn’t work like I wanted it to at Taco Bell?
Besides the “battery issue,” what reason is there to temporarily turn off Wi-Fi or Bluetooth? Since iPhone 5S I’ve left them both on.
This is just making it too confusing. Especially for non technical folks.
Sure that's not inconvenient and extra clicks at all. You could always go there to toggle off your connections too. Why screw my workflow over to make you happy?
When I want to turn off Bluetooth like normal users we want it off. Maybe a long press to permanently disable it would work? I almost always turn off Bluetooth and wifi when entering a business or shopping mall because I don't want to be tracked by beacons.
I go all day and never turn off anything on my phone. Talking on your phone and having the screen on use way more battery then any off the antennas use, these things by design use very very little battery when looking for connections.
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With iOS 11 stores can't track you by wifi anymore.
Well, seems like all kinds of people are finding the new options useful to them (even just going by the first page of this thread alone). So, by that logic, why screw with their workflow to make you happy?
Many reasons why, yes those are great ones.
How about 2 extra antennas in your pocket broadcasting radiation into your thigh and groin area for no reason.
Extra battery drain
Security issues you are broadcasting 24/7 now
There is NO reason why Apple is short sited on intuitiveness. It should be a tap for disconnect and a hold for off. Solved everyone happy done.
And the response form people about having to go into setting is unacceptable. It take too much time and it is annoying. The other fast way it to ask Siri to do it, but you can't always use voice commands such as in meetings or in public situation where that would be inappropriate.
I agree with you.. where is the long press??? hellow.
Why is this a "we"? Seems like there are certainly people who like and make use of the new options.
Exactly, like the night mode activation when long pressing the brightness button.
I have learned that if you need a pop up to explain something maybe its time to actually fix the root of a problem
I'm so glad for this feature. I will turn wifi off to allow for the (often) much faster LTE, or if I'm too far from my Wifi base station but I forget to turn in back until like 3 days later and during that time i've been killing my data usage instead of using Wifi.