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i believe on iphones, the fake off-switch for bluetooth disconnects the devices you actually want connected (airpods, watch), while not being completely off for
by clairity 7y ago
i believe on iphones, the fake off-switch for bluetooth disconnects the devices you actually want connected (airpods, watch), while not being completely off for everything else, like beacons.
instead, it should only maintain bluetooth connections to devices already connected (or better yet, trusted), while being invisible to everything else. i know with bluetooth this is technically difficult, if not impossible, but that would be the more customer-friendly implementation.
- graeme 7y agoIt keeps the watch, pencil and airpods connected. Disconnects my third party keyboard. Unsure how it works in the mall scenario. Anyone know? Occurs to me I could shut wifi fully off when leaving home, and turn bluetooth off with the toggle to still use my devices. Don’t know if that’s useful however. Used to use airplane mode all the time, but modern convenience became too great.
- clairity 7y agohmmm, are you sure these things stay connected? i just tried with those 3 items and none stayed connected when i fake turned-off bluetooth on my iphone/ipad. or maybe it's a feature of the newer devices? my apple devices are older and have bluetooth 4.2 still.
- graeme 7y agoDead certain. Are you on ios 12? If you're on an older version, that could explain it. When I turn it off, the bluetooth menu in settings says "new bluetooth connections have been turned off from control center"