WiFi turns on by itself on my iPhone

yeah this iphone acting like a virus or malware so weird...

Notphil666 wrote:

Rulebreaker15, very helpful i was able to stop what is happening. Phil clearly doesnt understand and should stop responding to this thread

I just tested out. I turned off Wi-Fi yesterday from Settings on my iPhone, not Control Center. Woke up today, and its still turned off.

What exactly don't I understand?

Also, you have no right asking me to stop posting in this thread. I will continue to do so, as its a public forum where anyone can post in any thread as long as they adhere to the rules of the forum.

I stand by what I say, turning it off from Settings will keep it off regardless of what happens.

Nobody in this thread has proven it will not do so yet. Everybody keeps going on in these tangents about the auto-Joining and other unrelated stuff.

When Wi-Fi is actually turned off, you cannot even see the Auto Join option. If you see the Auto-Join option, Wi-Fi is not turned off.

I think people assuming I don't understand, are the ones not understanding.

If it does not look like the following image in your Settings, then Wi-Fi has not been turned off.

This is the last time I will post this. If people keep thinking that

control center is settings or that believing that it still turns back on

after being turned off, then they can believe whatever they want. I

have already proven, Wi-Fi stays off when turned off directly in

settings. Whether anyone wants to believe that or not is up to them.

I give up.

rulebreaker15 wrote:

Your information is wrong. Apple has an auto-join feature, which turns WiFi on at regular intervals even when it is manually turned off by the user.

No, your information is wrong.

If you turn the switch off from SETTINGS, it STAYS OFF and will not connect to anything anymore.

If you turn it off from Control Center, then yes, it set to turn on again as explained already after 5 AM the next day, or when you leave the current location.

CONTROL CENTER and the SETTINGS app are 2 different locations. Turn it off correctly and it will stay off.

To disable auto-join and prevent your wifi from turning on by itself, go to settings>wifi>edit (at the top right of screen), then go through your auto-join networks and toggle auto-join off.

This only applies when WI-FI is turned on. If its turned off, Auto-Join does nothing.

If Wi-Fi is already turned on, then Auto-Join makes the iPhone connect a Wi-Fi network it has previously connected to in the past if its in range of it, so you don't have to manually do it.

It has nothing to do with turning on or off Wi-Fi.

The switch in settings Turns OFF Wi-Fi and will not connect to any network whether known or unknown even if the Auto-Join switch is turned on.

It's in Apple's description of the feature, always has been:

Use Bluetooth and Wi-Fi in Control Center - Apple Support

This particular document was first published October 13, 2023.

The wifi is turned off in settings and the iPhone does turn it back on by itself, repeatedly.

we have turned off wifi assist. Let’s see if that works. Although it seems that wifi assist is designed to switch to cellular when wifi is weak not the other way around, turning on wifi when using cellular.

Phil0124 wrote:

This is the last time I will post this. If people keep thinking that

control center is settings or that believing that it still turns back on

after being turned off, then they can believe whatever they want. I

have already proven, Wi-Fi stays off when turned off directly in

settings. Whether anyone wants to believe that or not is up to them.

I give up.

A valiant effort.

1. Open "Shortcuts app"
2. Open "Automation"
3. Click on "+" plus icon for add a new one.
4. From search bar search "Low Power Mode"
5. Select "Is Turned On" and select "Run Immediately"
6. Then click "Next"
7. Click on "New Blank Automation"
8. Click on "Add Action"
9. From search bar search for "wifi" ---> "Set Wi-Fi"---> from "Turn Wi-Fi On" click on "On" to make it "Off"
10. Then Hit the "Done" button and close the app.
11. Open Settings app--->Control Center--->from more controls add "Low Power Mode" in control center.
12. Work done. now click on "Low Power Mode" from control center to prevent automatically start the wifi. Thank you.

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Yes it is weird.

wifi assist was disabled and that made no difference.

Wifi turned off in settings only turned on for backup then turned off phone powered off nightly

IdrisSeabright wrote:

A valiant effort.

Thanks.

Your information is wrong. Apple has an auto-join feature, which turns WiFi on at regular intervals even when it is manually turned off by the user.

To disable auto-join and prevent your wifi from turning on by itself, go to settings>wifi>edit (at the top right of screen), then go through your auto-join networks and toggle auto-join off. This should prevent your wifi from toggling on, and you may need to change these settings manually again after software updates, as it seems auto-join is the default for Apple.

There are two sections/types of networks here. 1. Known networks, which is a surprisingly long list if you've never reviewed it before, and includes many wifis you may regularly join at hotels, salons, coffee shops, etc. 2. Managed networks which is your mobile carrier. This allows your carrier to join their own mobile hotspots, and you must opt in for a private wifi address in these settings, which will limit your carrier's ability to recognize you and switch to their wifi, but if you don't want to be switched to networks at all just toggle off auto join here too.

Apparently the 'Control Panel' WiFi switch does not actually turn off WiFi as you would intuitively expect. It only disconnects from whatever 'remembered' network you are currently on.

So let's say you have a remembered network for both your home and work, and let's say you are at work and 'disconnect' WiFi at work through the control menu (not settings), it will remain 'on' in the background. Then when you get home and it recognizes your home network, WiFi 'connects' to your home network as it assumes you probably want your WiFi on at home. Or any other 'known' network for that matter. (This is the auto-join feature).

To turn off WiFi (completely), you need to do so throught the settings menu.

I can see the appeal, but I believe it is a feature that should be the other way around. The control panel should turn off completely any form of connectivity (just like the settings toggle) like WiFi, Bluetooth and (please add) cellular at an instance as the users knows very well why they don't want WiFi, Bluetooth or cellular turned on. So respect that and have it turned off no matter where one arrives or leaves. (Navigating a settings menu for connectivity feel archaic in 2024).

Then if you want WiFi, Bluetooth or cellular to come on when you leave a particular place or arrive at a particular place (network), then that is usually more of a 'behavioural' and therefore a more 'set in stone' preference that can be fine tuned in the settings menu.

It is apparent that the control panel toggles do not behave as the user intuitively would expect, and that is what Apple was and should remain all about. Again, not disagreeing with the feature, but I think it should be implemented differently, as described above.

I have selected in settings to turn WiFi off and never join familiar or no familiar networks. Yet 10 times a day I have to turn it off. This is an issue because I will send a photo message or type in an address to pull up directions and the phone due to having Wi-Fi on yet. No Wi-Fi connection it does nothing. I've sent messages only to find out hours or days later that it was never sent as it's attempting to use Wi-Fi when I'm not in a Wi-Fi zone.

Just found my wifi connected to an unsecured network even when it was off. At a hotel. You have go disable wifi to keep your phone secure. This update was a virus, not an update.