• abhibeckert@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    iPhones don’t even turn wifi/bluetooth off when you toggle them specifically. They certainly don’t disconnect in airplane mode.

    The quick wifi/bluetooth buttons are to disconnect temporarily when you’ve got a bad connection. Or if your husband started the car but you’re not in it, you’re just nearby. They’re not to turn the radios off.

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      9 months ago

      Devices are so smart these days that the difference is often lost on users. As you wrote, the button is merely interpreted as a request to not initiate connections. It doesn’t actually affect the radio power state and is interpreted quite loosely on both Android and iOS.