Comment by lkbm
6 hours ago
Airplane mode doesn't turn off wifi or Bluetooth, though obviously you can do that in addition to airplane mode.
6 hours ago
Airplane mode doesn't turn off wifi or Bluetooth, though obviously you can do that in addition to airplane mode.
Right, the airplane icon does not necessarily.
Settings for WiFi, turn off; settings for Bluetooth, turn off; does turn them off.
This change was the result of years of supporting people meaning to turn it off in one place or one day, then confused it didn't work at home or the next day.
So now airplane mode is a conditional off (the state machine across cellular, wifi, and bluetooth is pretty decent at doing a reasonable set of toggles), while the settings are off off.
The near field stuff seems to remain available; full shutdown turns that off too.
Is that an iPhone thing? On Android airplane mode turns off both Wi-Fi and Bluetooth.
It used to turn them off on the iPhone, but not these days.
A lot of planes have WiFi, and people are also using Bluetooth headphones. So when talking about being a passenger on an airplane, this seems like a rather practical choice.
Not for my Android phone, at least not by default (Pixel 9a a/ GrapheneOS). It leaves Bluetooth and WiFi on in airplane mode. I doubt this is specific to GrapheneOS and may say more about AOSP.
That's a setting you can tweak with various software.
Not if you were connected to either when turning on airplane mode. Both can also be turned on manually in airplane mode. A physical block avoids any uncertainty or mistakes.