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Enable what? Modern MacOS/iOS discourage you from disabiling Wi-Fi/Bluetooth anyway.

• jbverschoor 7y ago
  Some (more and more) people simply have it disabled, because 4G is faster and more reliable than wifi. And if you don't have any bluetooth devices, it will save some batterylife.
  • davidmurdoch 7y ago
    If you don't connect to a wifi network or any bluetooth devices then the battery savings are negligible, apparently. https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-12271 https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-12271
    • Defenestresque 7y ago
      This is very interesting to me. Does anyone know if there are material differences between Apple's and Android's implementations (in the battery savings sense)?
    • pbhjpbhj 7y ago
      Is the default to connect to open networks?
• liability 7y ago
  > Modern MacOS[...] discourage you from disabiling Wi-Fi/Bluetooth anyway. How do you figure? I've never seen any discouragement from it.
  • dsl 7y ago
    If you use the controls that slide down from the top of the screen (I'm at a loss as to what Apple calls it) and "disable" Wifi it simply disconnects from the associated AP and won't reassociate. It will turn itself back on at 7 AM tomorrow morning. "Disabling" Bluetooth is similar, it will disconnect from paired devices, but BTLE is still available. You have to use airplane mode, or go in to the Settings app to fully disable it. If that isn't discouragement, I don't know what is.
    • duskwuff 7y ago
      The behavior you're describing is only present on iOS, not on macOS.
    • liability 7y ago
      Yeah that must just be iOS, I've not experienced anything like that in MacOS, nor even noticed any difference from how it used to be years ago.