Comment by icebraining
8 years ago
What would be the point? If it's for tracking, you can do that without actually connecting to the networks, just by monitoring passively, like Android does.
8 years ago
What would be the point? If it's for tracking, you can do that without actually connecting to the networks, just by monitoring passively, like Android does.
Yes. You must have the modem on. Before it would fully disable WiFi modem. Now it simply looks to be off. Perception is that it’s not connecting but keeps modem on to keep pinging routers passively. But again, that’s why I would do it if I were Apple. Not sure why they are doing it for sure.
More reliable map data to compete against Google Maps w/ wifi location assist?
Yes, but you can do that without actually connecting to the Wifis, you just scan passively like Android does.