WiFi turning itself on

Do you turn them off in the control panel only? If so, don't worry.

When disabling them via the control panel, you will just temporarily disable them for 24 hours. If you want to turn them off completely, go to settings and click the button there (e.g. in wifi settings).

You can't turn off WiFi from the Control Center at all. All you can do from there is disconnect from the network you're connected to. Once you move in range of another known network or 24 hours has passed, your phone will reconnect.

Kruzihart wrote:

It’s not for 24 hrs though, from the control panel. It might just be for a few min and it will turn itself back on. The message that pops up when I turn it off there SAYS it will stay off until tomorrow that time, but next thing I know- it’s back on.

It doesn't turn WiFi off at all from the Control Center. It disconnects your phone from the network. If the phone doesn't move and there's only one network, it will stay disconnected for 24 hours. If, however, there's more than one known network nearby, your phone may try to connect to that network. Or, if you change locations to somewhere there is another network, the phone will connect to that.

Bottom line: If you want to turn WiFi off, you need to do it through Settings>WiFi.

As was pointed out go to Settings->WiFi/Bluetooth and turn them off there. They will stay off forever unless you turn them back on. But on the point of being hacked WiFi and Bluetooth are simply not vectors for entry as you the user have to actively connect to a WiFi or Bluetooth network. You are worried about nothing.