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I hope people vote with their wallets then, but realistically speaking people just buy whatever Apple throws out :(

Jorengarenar 4y ago
I mean, it's not a feature which would get my "voting" attention. While I do hope for it to stay, I don't recall any situation when I wanted for my phone to stop doing its primary (well, at least for me still it is primary) function of receiving phone call and SMS.
- sdenton4 4y ago
  It's a helpful low-power mode, especially when traveling in areas where you no there's no signal.
  - deleted 4y ago
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  - Jorengarenar 4y ago
    Oh right, I forgot as I don't travel too much and almost whole Poland is reasonably well covered.
- SoftTalker 4y ago
  I use it at night when I want to sleep without interuptions. I guess you can always just turn the phone off entirely. Assuming that doesn't become impossible also.
  - crooked-v 4y ago
    If we're talking Apple devices, Focus mode is explicitly defined for that case, and allows fine-grained settings for specific sources to allow through, so you can still get, e.g. high-priority midnight calls from the family/lawyer/local comic book shop.
    - alexiaa 4y ago
      i don't understand why you're being downvoted, that's exactly what it is for. android users can use do not disturb as well.
  - Jorengarenar 4y ago
    People call you at night?!
    - em-bee 4y ago
      i have friends on different timezones, and they talk in groups that are important to me, so i don't want to silence these groups. it's far easier to silence the whole phone for the night. airplane mode is an easy way to achieve that.
      - Jorengarenar 4y ago
        Perhaps, despite my age, I'm just an out-of-the-loop dinosaur, but I have no clue how does that work. Do phones nowadays have an option to dial multiple numbers to have a group phone call?
        em-bee 4y ago
        text messaging in chat groups. they still beep when a message appears in a group or at least when someone replies to a message i sent or mentions me. i have most groups on silent by default but some groups are important so for those i keep notifications on. apart from that there are also voice group chats which on some apps start with a ring at least if i am explicitly invited. (though that usually doesn't happen when i am asleep)
        Jorengarenar 4y ago
        Wouldn't simply muting the device be just as effective? (with the added bonus of being aware in the morning if somebody did actually try to reach out to you during the night)
        lotsofpulp 4y ago
        You can even set the phone to automatically silence everything every night, but still let through phone calls from certain contacts in case of emergency.
shortcake27 4y ago
Very high chance of Apple removing it. Heck, AirPods Max have no power button. Someone at Apple is losing sleep over the fact people have control over the radios in their phone.
- jtvjan 4y ago
  Certainly. They've already changed it such that "turning off" Wi-Fi or Bluetooth from the Control Centre doesn't actually turn off the radios, it simply disconnects any devices, or disconnects from any networks the device is currently connected to. You have to turn on Aeroplane Mode or go to the Settings app to actually turn them off.
  - bushbaba 4y ago
    Even then they could still be on. You have no guarantee
  - lotsofpulp 4y ago
    Source? They changed it a few years ago so that they would automatically turn on again once you are at a different location, and if you wanted it permanent off, you can do so via settings app. I found this to be an improvement in user experience because I would often turn off wifi in the control panel when I was on a weak wifi connection to force the phone to use the mobile network, and then I would forget to turn it back on when I went inside again. This change made it so I did not have to remember to turn wifi on again. However, I did not read anything about toggling in control panel not actually turning the radios off.

I mean, it's not a feature which would get my "voting" attention. While I do hope for it to stay, I don't recall any situation when I wanted for my phone to stop doing its primary (well, at least for me still it is primary) function of receiving phone call and SMS.

sdenton4 4y ago
It's a helpful low-power mode, especially when traveling in areas where you no there's no signal.
- deleted 4y ago
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- Jorengarenar 4y ago
  Oh right, I forgot as I don't travel too much and almost whole Poland is reasonably well covered.
SoftTalker 4y ago
I use it at night when I want to sleep without interuptions. I guess you can always just turn the phone off entirely. Assuming that doesn't become impossible also.
- crooked-v 4y ago
  If we're talking Apple devices, Focus mode is explicitly defined for that case, and allows fine-grained settings for specific sources to allow through, so you can still get, e.g. high-priority midnight calls from the family/lawyer/local comic book shop.
  - alexiaa 4y ago
    i don't understand why you're being downvoted, that's exactly what it is for. android users can use do not disturb as well.
- Jorengarenar 4y ago
  People call you at night?!
  - em-bee 4y ago
    i have friends on different timezones, and they talk in groups that are important to me, so i don't want to silence these groups. it's far easier to silence the whole phone for the night. airplane mode is an easy way to achieve that.
    - Jorengarenar 4y ago
      Perhaps, despite my age, I'm just an out-of-the-loop dinosaur, but I have no clue how does that work. Do phones nowadays have an option to dial multiple numbers to have a group phone call?
      - em-bee 4y ago
        text messaging in chat groups. they still beep when a message appears in a group or at least when someone replies to a message i sent or mentions me. i have most groups on silent by default but some groups are important so for those i keep notifications on. apart from that there are also voice group chats which on some apps start with a ring at least if i am explicitly invited. (though that usually doesn't happen when i am asleep)
        Jorengarenar 4y ago
        Wouldn't simply muting the device be just as effective? (with the added bonus of being aware in the morning if somebody did actually try to reach out to you during the night)
        lotsofpulp 4y ago
        You can even set the phone to automatically silence everything every night, but still let through phone calls from certain contacts in case of emergency.

shortcake27 4y ago

Very high chance of Apple removing it. Heck, AirPods Max have no power button. Someone at Apple is losing sleep over the fact people have control over the radios in their phone.

jtvjan 4y ago
Certainly. They've already changed it such that "turning off" Wi-Fi or Bluetooth from the Control Centre doesn't actually turn off the radios, it simply disconnects any devices, or disconnects from any networks the device is currently connected to. You have to turn on Aeroplane Mode or go to the Settings app to actually turn them off.
- bushbaba 4y ago
  Even then they could still be on. You have no guarantee
- lotsofpulp 4y ago
  Source? They changed it a few years ago so that they would automatically turn on again once you are at a different location, and if you wanted it permanent off, you can do so via settings app. I found this to be an improvement in user experience because I would often turn off wifi in the control panel when I was on a weak wifi connection to force the phone to use the mobile network, and then I would forget to turn it back on when I went inside again. This change made it so I did not have to remember to turn wifi on again. However, I did not read anything about toggling in control panel not actually turning the radios off.