Why Apple still does this?

[PeterG727]

In the control center, I can't completely turn off wifi and bluetooth. It only disconnects, but still scans. I remember being able to turn it off from the control center years ago, so why was it changed? Wifi and bluetooth functions will only disconnect nowadays. I understand certain features won't work, so why couldn't people have more options on what they can do?

 

[Michael0816]

As far as I can remember you could never turn it off via control center. 🤔
But you could create a shortcut where, for example, if you activate a specific Focus, Wifi and/or Bluetooth will get turned off.

 

[HouseLannister]

I remember being able to turn it off from the control center years ago, so why was it changed?

It hasn’t changed. This is the same as iOS 18, 17, 16, 15, 14… If you want something to change, submit a feedback ticket.

 

[ghostface147]

Someone has Mandela effect.

 

[aperfectcircle]

Another user posted about this last week. Someone kindly created a shortcut for toggling wifi off and on for them if you search up the forums. You can download their shortcut and add it to the today screen or (I think) to control centre.

 

[winxmac]

iOS 10 - Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, Cellular/mobile data can be turned off in Control Center
iOS 11 - With the new Control Center, you can only disconnect the bluetooth, wi-fi, cellular/mobile data but will still be on. You will need to go to Settings to turn them off.

 

[Paddle1]

In iOS 18 they introduced the ability to add shortcuts to the Control Center, you can now just take a shortcut that turns these things off and add it as a CC button. No need to tie it to a Focus or anything.

(And yes, it did used to work this way by default but it was quite a while ago.)

 

[User #07242024]

You can tell Siri to turn those off.

 

[WarmWinterHat]

You can tell Siri to turn those off.

And then she loads Maps and navigates you to Duruthu.

 

[russell_314]

iOS 10 - Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, Cellular/mobile data can be turned off in Control Center
iOS 11 - With the new Control Center, you can only disconnect the bluetooth, wi-fi, cellular/mobile data but will still be on. You will need to go to Settings to turn them off.

I think Apple saw the future with Bluetooth and Wi-Fi being used for location data. You had so many users turning off these features that they didn’t use very often, but then Apple was not able to use them for system services and analytics.

Apple wanted to discourage users from turning these off. If you ever turn them off manually, you’ll get multiple warnings, saying what you’re doing is not good.

To quote a famous movie line “I’m sorry, Dave. I’m afraid I can’t do that.”