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When this change was made several years ago on iOS, I was quite annoyed because I had the habit of turning off WiFi and Bluetooth periodically (mainly to stay d
by newscracker 3y ago
When this change was made several years ago on iOS, I was quite annoyed because I had the habit of turning off WiFi and Bluetooth periodically (mainly to stay disconnected). I think I even provided feedback to Apple (from the public feedback page) to change this to a three-way toggle — On, Disconnect Devices, and Off. This idea had been proposed by many other people too. Since Apple rarely takes such feedback into consideration and does things the way it imagines is best for users, I had to go to settings and turn these off every time.
Later (maybe a year or so), I found that turning these off was possible through shortcuts. Since then, I have one widget to turn these off and an automation (within the Shortcuts app) that turns off WiFi at bedtime. I use this regularly because I just don’t want WiFi turning on at 5 a.m. the next day.
- astrange 3y agoWhat is the use case for turning off WiFI at bedtime?
- oktoberpaard 3y agoCan’t you just use airplane mode and toggle wifi off, both in the control panel? Together with airplane mode, the wifi toggle does actually turn WiFi completely off. I believe that airplane mode even remembers that preference. Or do you have a use case for having wifi turned off but mobile services turned on?
- RealStickman_ 3y agoI'd think having wifi turned off while mobile services are on is very common when on the go.
- kioshix 3y agoI also use Shortcuts for this, but instead I saved it as an icon on the home screen. So now I have a dedicated "app" for turning wifi off, perfect.
- morganf 3y agonewscracker, I just want to say THANK YOU. Ever since the iPhone has made this change, it's been a minor frustration of mine, like a constant pebble in my shoe, since I have the habit of going into Airplane mode with wifi on every time I go inside to a venue with wifi (b/c the health consequences of having such a strong 4G signal so close to my body are unclear to me; better to be safe than sorry) and the lots of clicks (settings, cellular data, turn it off; settings, wifi, turn wifi on; etc) has been this pebble in the shoe pain. But I had no idea you could define a shortcut for these and I never thought to. I just designed shortcuts to turn them on and off and put it on my homescreen and it is AMAZING. So, thank you, newscracker, for sharing this tidbit.