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I'm interested in this too. Recently I downloaded a podcast locally and turned off cellular on my phone before going for a walk. About halfway through my walk

I'm interested in this too. Recently I downloaded a podcast locally and turned off cellular on my phone before going for a walk. About halfway through my walk I looked at my phone screen and noticed that my phone was still showing cellular bars. It wouldn't communicate and the LTE symbol was gone, but the signal bars remained. Made me wonder what turning cellular off actually meant, was it still connected but data was off? Are the bars just a client side thing and no comms were going out? No idea.

gruez 6y ago
I'm pretty sure the "cellular" button you were talking about was labeled and was for "cellular data".
- somehnguy 6y ago
  The one I'm talking about is the green one here: https://www.howtogeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/control_center_basic2.png https://www.howtogeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/control... There is no label, it just looks like a cellular icon. When you press it it turns grey, indicating off like this: https://i.redd.it/76b0j4im36f41.jpg https://i.redd.it/76b0j4im36f41.jpg
  - wtallis 6y ago
    Press and hold on that, and it'll expand to show the labels and two more buttons: https://support.apple.com/library/content/dam/edam/applecare/images/en_US/iOS/ios13-iphone-xs-control-center-bluetooth-animation.gif https://support.apple.com/library/content/dam/edam/applecare...
    - somehnguy 6y ago
      Great, thanks. So I guess pressing the clearly designed cellular icon does not turn off cellular and the real action is hidden in a popup. Very intuitive! /s Glad I wasn't doing it for a more serious reason (in which case I would have just left the phone at home, but still..). edit: comment chain got too deep to reply to. But I think the fact that I failed to see a difference is clear evidence that the airplane mode icon is NOT an adequate indicator. Airplane mode means turn off all wireless, everyone knows that much. But that isn't what I wanted, I still wanted bluetooth with nothing else and as such turned off the unwanted radios individually. Airplane mode intuitively to me means just a quicker/easier way to toggle them in one swoop, not a completely different action that you can't accomplish with the individual buttons.
      - wtallis 6y ago
        For most people, turning off all cellular functionality is a relatively uncommon action, and very strongly associated with the airplane mode icon. The presence of that airplane mode button serves as an adequate indicator that the cellular icon has a different function.

gruez 6y ago

I'm pretty sure the "cellular" button you were talking about was labeled and was for "cellular data".

somehnguy 6y ago
The one I'm talking about is the green one here: https://www.howtogeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/control_center_basic2.png https://www.howtogeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/control... There is no label, it just looks like a cellular icon. When you press it it turns grey, indicating off like this: https://i.redd.it/76b0j4im36f41.jpg https://i.redd.it/76b0j4im36f41.jpg
- wtallis 6y ago
  Press and hold on that, and it'll expand to show the labels and two more buttons: https://support.apple.com/library/content/dam/edam/applecare/images/en_US/iOS/ios13-iphone-xs-control-center-bluetooth-animation.gif https://support.apple.com/library/content/dam/edam/applecare...
  - somehnguy 6y ago
    Great, thanks. So I guess pressing the clearly designed cellular icon does not turn off cellular and the real action is hidden in a popup. Very intuitive! /s Glad I wasn't doing it for a more serious reason (in which case I would have just left the phone at home, but still..). edit: comment chain got too deep to reply to. But I think the fact that I failed to see a difference is clear evidence that the airplane mode icon is NOT an adequate indicator. Airplane mode means turn off all wireless, everyone knows that much. But that isn't what I wanted, I still wanted bluetooth with nothing else and as such turned off the unwanted radios individually. Airplane mode intuitively to me means just a quicker/easier way to toggle them in one swoop, not a completely different action that you can't accomplish with the individual buttons.
    - wtallis 6y ago
      For most people, turning off all cellular functionality is a relatively uncommon action, and very strongly associated with the airplane mode icon. The presence of that airplane mode button serves as an adequate indicator that the cellular icon has a different function.