Comment by clouddrover
8 years ago
> (3) You can still fully disable it by going into settings, but the quick-off is more like you expect.
For me, I expect off to be off. What annoys me about this change is that the on\off behaviour is now asymmetric. If I turn off Wi-Fi in Settings, I can turn it back on via Control Centre but I now can't turn it off via Control Centre.
My preference is always to leave Wi-Fi off, turn it on when I want to use it, and then turn it off when I'm finished. This change makes doing that slower and clumsier.
>My preference is always to leave Wi-Fi off, turn it on when I want to use it, and then turn it off when I'm finished. This change makes doing that slower and clumsier.
It's exactly this micro-management that they try to obliterate, similar to this:
https://www.wired.com/2016/03/closing-apps-save-battery-make...
Reminds me of this: https://xkcd.com/1172/
I think for the majority of users this is a really insightful change that addresses one of the biggest use cases the switch had (temporarily disable WiFi to get away from a bad connection) and one of the biggest issues it had for that use case (it was easy to turn it off and waste large amounts of relatively expensive wireless data)
>My preference is always to leave Wi-Fi off, turn it on when I want to use it, and then turn it off when I'm finished. This change makes doing that slower and clumsier.
Right!
But the good Apple developers believe that this way your experience will be somehow inferior:
From the article: >For the best experience on your iOS device, try to keep Wi-Fi and Bluetooth turned on.
Wifi being off definitely reduces the performance of Location services.
In my parking garage the car charger needs to be activated via an app, and it needs to detect your location as within 100ft of the charger. Without WiFi, my location accuracy shows up as almost +-1 mile and I can't turn it on. As soon as I turn on WiFi it instantly snaps to exit of the garage (probably from correlating detecting apartment wifi hotspots along with my car's hotspot and my location as I leave the garage)
>In my parking garage the car charger needs to be activated via an app, and ...
Which is a good example of a specific case where the feature is useful, and noone - I believe - is contrary to it in an absolute way.
But the parent commenter surely has his reasons to keep Wi-Fi off unless he wants it used, and this change does create an asimmetry in the way the thing is managed in the (now three) states of on/off/almost on.