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Am I missing something? Swipe from the top, tap to disable BT?
by haraldooo 3y ago
Am I missing something? Swipe from the top, tap to disable BT?
- hybridtupel 3y agoThat’s unfortunately only disconnecting until the next day (see text appearing above when pressing).
- rplnt 3y agoNotice the difference in color when you do that. As the other comment pointed out, it only disconnects devices. Apple makes it hard for their users to disable bluetooth (or gps) so features like airtag work well. You are sacrificing your battery life (and I guess privacy and security) for the ecosystem to work.
- cma 3y agoGoogle won't let you use GPS for maps without also turning on wifi for similar reasons I guess. It does make it more accurate but shouldn't be required.
- slau 3y agoWasn’t there this thing that Google collected a list of SSIDs using their Google Maps cars, and that gave them “good enough” geolocation using passive WiFi scanning, which was much less battery intensive and faster than GPS?
- 0xDEADFED5 3y agoThat's nonsense, Maps works perfectly fine with wifi off
- cma 3y agoThey might have changed it again, but it was a thing, I saw the prompts mentioned here too: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30167865 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30167865