Why is there a wifi shutoff option in control center now?

[ra4oasis]

I just moved the wifi toggle in control center to the bottom, but I'm curious, why would you want to shut off the wifi anyway, outside of airplane mode?

 

[spiderpumpkin]

Maybe to save battery life when away from phone? That way it’s not scanning for phone near you?

 

[Vanilla35]

Would seem to go against Apple's recent ethos of only temporarily turning off wifi/bluetooth which was a change made in iOS 11 last year. I would assume the same principle would apply, especially with the apple watch. Only counter to that would be battery life, but the battery is even bigger this year (therefore higher standby time) than last year (despite same battery life), so that's not a logical reason for the change either.

Interesting.

 

[barjam]

I just moved the wifi toggle in control center to the bottom, but I'm curious, why would you want to shut off the wifi anyway, outside of airplane mode?

Here are my two use cases for the feature:

1) When mowing the lawn I walk close to the house which causes the watch to try to connect to wifi. If I am streaming music this isn't great, I would prefer that the watch stayed on LTE for streaming.

2) Similar to number one if I start a walk/run from my house I want to get to LTE quick. The watch will try to stay on home wifi for quite a distance sometimes which isn't helpful.

 

[bruinsrme]

Here are my two use cases for the feature:

1) When mowing the lawn I walk close to the house which causes the watch to try to connect to wifi. If I am streaming music this isn't great, I would prefer that the watch stayed on LTE for streaming.

2) Similar to number one if I start a walk/run from my house I want to get to LTE quick. The watch will try to stay on home wifi for quite a distance sometimes which isn't helpful.

Just curious do you have Verizon?

 

[ra4oasis]

Here are my two use cases for the feature:

1) When mowing the lawn I walk close to the house which causes the watch to try to connect to wifi. If I am streaming music this isn't great, I would prefer that the watch stayed on LTE for streaming.

2) Similar to number one if I start a walk/run from my house I want to get to LTE quick. The watch will try to stay on home wifi for quite a distance sometimes which isn't helpful.

Good examples, I guess I can see a point to this now. Thanks!

 

[Julien]

Also since wOS 5 can now scan, detect and connect to unknown networks this probably uses more power.
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Also since wOS 5 can now scan, detect and connect to unknown networks this probably uses more power.

Now that I think about it it's probably a good idea to turn it off (since it is always scanning for new WiFi's) whenever you have your iPhone.

 

[Vanilla35]

Also since wOS 5 can now scan, detect and connect to unknown networks this probably uses more power.
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Now that I think about it it's probably a good idea to turn it off (since it is always scanning for new WiFi's) whenever you have your iPhone.

Isn't the cost of battery life through scanning trivial? I stated above that apple has WiFi scanning continuous on iOS. Or due to smaller battery capacity, it could have a greater impact?

 

[kycophpd]

I believe I read last year that it was for those having issues like he mentioned on the streaming. It allows you to connect to only cellular or only bluetooth or only wifi or a combination of whatever connections you want. I have had times when working one of my jobs where I walk around listening to music and leave my phone in the car. Whenever I get close to the car, it tries to go thru the phone's cellular thru bluetooth and sometimes gives choppy audio. I could see the same use if they had a wifi connection there. The watch would want to go thru the wifi before cellular so going in and out of the wifi would potentially cause choppy audio. Same could go for using the phone or any other app.