BEWARE/HEADS UP vis-a-vis Bluetooth & Wi-Fi can't be fully disabled via iOS 11 Control Center, Apple says

["Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>]

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> From: the keyboard of geoff goodfellow <geoff () iconia com>
> Date: September 20, 2017 at 4:08:11 PM EDT
> To: "E-mail Pamphleteer Dave Farber's Interesting People list" <ip () listbox com>
> Cc: "Peter G. Neumann" <neumann () csl sri com>, Dewayne Hendricks <dewayne () warpspeed com>, Sam Baker 
> <kokuadigital () gmail com>, Michael Grant <mgrant () grant org>
> Subject: BEWARE/HEADS UP vis-a-vis Bluetooth & Wi-Fi can't be fully disabled via iOS 11 Control Center, Apple says
>
> Bluetooth & Wi-Fi can't be fully disabled via iOS 11 Control Center, Apple says
> Contrary to intuition, toggling off Bluetooth and/or Wi-Fi in the iOS 11 Control Center won't completely disable 
> those radios, according to a new Apple support document.
>
>
> http://appleinsider.com/articles/17/09/20/bluetooth-wi-fi-cant-be-fully-disabled-via-ios-11-control-center-apple-says
>
> ​this comment by "Mike1", from the above article, sez it best:
>
> "After toggling off Wi-Fi, network auto-join is disabled as well until Wi-Fi is manually restarted, a person walks or 
> drives to a new place, or it's 5 a.m. local time. Bluetooth accessory connections will resume under the same 
> circumstances, minus the location trigger."
>
> Really?! This sounds incredibly silly and certainly makes it less convenient. If I'm toggling off WiFi, it's because 
> I don't want it on. Period. At least three use cases that affect me personally...
>
> 1. I'm driving and the phone wants to connect to some public wifi signal that I may have used in the past. But now, 
> all it will do is slow down the phone because it's not connecting to LTE. On a typical commute, I may pass through 
> dozens of wifi networks.
>
> 2. I'm running errands and don't want my phone to connect to every public or store wifi signal I may pass through. 
> Most of them suck and I prefer to use my phone data.
>
> 3. I do not connect to my company's wifi network with my phone as they block most non-work related sites. No personal 
> e-mail, no score updates etc. So, I again turn off the wifi. Don't want it turning on again when I go into a 
> different building.
>
> Shouldn't have to go into Settings to turn it off thereby negating the benefit of Control Center. Not like Apple to 
> make things less convenient.​
>
>
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