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This makes me appreciate kill switches more on the librem five phone. And it also makes sense why Apple doesn’t want you to be able to fully disable wifi on yo
by olah_1 6y ago
This makes me appreciate kill switches more on the librem five phone.
And it also makes sense why Apple doesn’t want you to be able to fully disable wifi on your phone.
- gareim 6y ago> And it also makes sense why Apple doesn’t want you to be able to fully disable wifi on your phone. If you're referring to the lack of a hardware kill switch, that's true for 99.9% of Androids too. If you're referring to the temporary WiFi off toggle in the Control Center, the reasoning is that most people don't remember they turned off WiFi (my parents for example) and won't remember to turn it back on. But you absolutely can disable it by going into the Settings app.
- olah_1 6y agoMaybe that’s new in iOS14. I remember last year seeing a Shortcut for turning off wifi completely. But even then I thought it turned itself back on randomly.
- jackson1442 6y agoYou've always been able to ask Siri or go into settings to disable wifi since the first beta of that feature; I ran it. I think it's nice since I frequently need to tell my phone to hop to mobile data while walking around campus since it's hopping from AP to AP and the control center switch is geofenced, so when I stop walking I'm almost always outside the geofence and wifi is back on like I wanted it to be.
- suifbwish 6y agoThe way to disable WiFi on your device to change the password in the access point
- olah_1 6y agoIt will still try to connect to wifi points that you happen to pass by, though.
- adrr 6y agoMost common use case of disabling Wifi is when you're at a range where wifi traffic is so degraded that you're better off using the cell network. Thats why it is temporary from the control center but you can disable permanently in settings.
- vsareto 6y agoKill switches seem a bit silly against the US government. If you're doing something that drastic, it's probably better to take pains to organize without any electronics on you at all.
- olah_1 6y agoYou’re probably right. But we’re also at the point where software is so tightly controlled by the hardware manufacturers that the devices simply don’t do what you expect them to do. If I can flip a switch to disable wifi instead of tap three times, that’s a UX improvement to me.