Comment by jaclaz
8 years ago
>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.