"After toggling off Wi-Fi, network auto-join is disabled as well until
Wi-Fi is manually restarted, a person walks or drives to a new place, or
it's 5 a.m. local time. Bluetooth accessory connections will resume
under the same circumstances, minus the location trigger."
Really?! This sounds incredibly silly and certainly makes it less convenient. If I'm toggling off WiFi, it's because I don't want it on. Period. At least three use cases that affect me personally...
1. I'm driving and the phone wants to connect to some public wifi signal that I may have used in the past. But now, all it will do is slow down the phone because it's not connecting to LTE. On a typical commute, I may pass through dozens of wifi networks.
2. I'm running errands and don't want my phone to connect to every public or store wifi signal I may pass through. Most of them suck and I prefer to use my phone data.
3. I do not connect to my company's wifi network with my phone as they block most non-work related sites. No personal e-mail, no score updates etc. So, I again turn off the wifi. Don't want it turning on again when I go into a different building.
Shouldn't have to go into Settings to turn it off thereby negating the benefit of Control Center. Not like Apple to make things less convenient.
I agree there should be an off-means-off mode, but this actually suits my personal use-case scenario. I use WiFi at home but when I leave for work, I switch it off to use 4G to prevent connecting to work's slow network and any "free" wifi hotspots. When I come home I switch wi-fi on again, I've noticed the iPhone now does this automatically for me
But according to what I am reading, every time you enter a new wifi network, it turns back on. My LTE is faster than practically every wifi network that's not at my house.
It shouldn't be trying to assume what it thinks I want it to do. It should do what I tell it to do.
Imagine applying this logic to other things, like the brake pedal in a car. You press the pedal... the car decides that you really only need to stop if you're at the school to drop your kid off, so it keeps going right though the red light.
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My LTE is faster than practically every wifi network that's not at my house.
Imagine applying this logic to other things, like the brake pedal in a car. You press the pedal... the car decides that you really only need to stop if you're at the school to drop your kid off, so it keeps going right though the red light.