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This has been easily the most obnoxious change of iOS 11. It is super annoying to have to dismiss the list of available WiFi networks every single time I open m
by trowawee 9y ago
This has been easily the most obnoxious change of iOS 11. It is super annoying to have to dismiss the list of available WiFi networks every single time I open my phone while walking around the city, no matter how many times I turn my WiFi off.
- neotek 9y agoSo why not just actually turn your wifi off? They didn't remove your ability to do so, just changed the way you do it.
- trowawee 9y agoI mean, I can. It's just an annoying pain in the ass, now, rather than a simple toggle. Which was a stupid decision on Apple's part.
- neotek 9y agoIs it more or less annoying than having to dismiss the list of available wifi networks? This change might be inconvenient for you personally, but I suspect there's no way in hell Apple would have made this change if they didn't have robust data on the way their average customer uses their device and didn't believe that this was a positive change.
- jachee 9y agoTry "Hey Siri, turn off WiFi." Five words isn't much beyond a simple toggle. :)
- macpete 9y agoIronically you possibly need WiFi (since siri operates remotely) to turn it off.
- colejohnson66 9y agoTurn off “Ask to join networks”
- djrogers 9y agoTurn off ‘ask to join networks’ - mine been that ways for 10 years and it’s much better.
- trowawee 9y agoI...don't want my phone to automatically connect to random open access points? I live in a city where there are at least 5 separate open networks available at nearly all times if you're just walking around, most of which I do not want to connect to.
- neotek 9y agoTurning off "ask to join networks" also stops your phone from connecting to open networks automatically. It will still autoconnect to networks that you have previously connected to, though, unless you explicitly tell it to forget that network.
- jachee 9y agoExactly. Also: auto-joining open WiFi networks—especially generically-named ones—is a pretty serious security risk. So easy to spoof an SSID and capture everything that's traversing it.
- Ensorceled 9y agoUnless you use a VPN.
- jachee 9y agoAlas, there's no auto-enable-upon-connection VPN, of which I'm aware. And if your device connects to an open SSID while in your pocket, you're not even aware of it.
- djrogers 9y agoNot sure you understand the feature here - this controls wether you are prompted to join a network you've never seen. It doesn't automatically join those networks if you disable it, it merely silences the incessant prompts.
- blub 9y agoThis and removing buttons from the landscape keyboard.