Just wanted to inform you that WiFi in new iOS 11 keeps turning on
iPhone 6s, iOS 11
If you're tapping the buttons in control center, it's a change whereby tapping the icons drops the current connection but does not shut WiFi (or Bluetooth) off; to do that you have to use the slide toggles in Settings.
This is quite handy as you can disconnect from a current troublesome WiFi network without having to remember to reenable it later.
From the iOS 11 manual for iPhone:
This behavior is also covered in more detail here:
Use Bluetooth and Wi-Fi in Control Center with iOS 11 - Apple Support
AlienDhog wrote:
Yeah, it’s a terrible feature and the need to roll it back immediately.
Then tell Apple. http://www.apple.com/feedback/iphone.html
No one here can do anything about it.
IOS 11.1 is now available for download......should fix this problem.
Mine as well. If this is not the case with ARG1978 phone, their phone is defective and needs to be taken to Apple for evaluation.
You can complain all you want, here:
We're just fellow users here trying to help people with problems, we're not Apple.
It is a fantasy that leaving Wi-Fi on kills your battery. But if you want to continue believing this fantasy just go to Settings/Wi-Fi and turn it off.
We appreciate your kind wording. Now go to Settings > WiFi and turn off "Ask to Join Networks." Then look in the mirror.
Your problem will be solved if you go to Settings > WiFi and turn OFF “Ask to Join Networks” PERMANENTLY.
Then take it to an Apple Store and ask them to get it fixed for you.
Good luck with that. Apple has redesigned the way this icon works as part of working with HomeKit. There are 4 other "switches" that can turn WiFi fully On/Off. Why do you desperately need 5?
Ugh, so frustrating. So a quick access to toggle wifi/Bluetooth is gone... Now I need to go into nested settings-pages, because some dev thought that'd be "easier"? Rollback to the previous, or enable an option to choose. Or, long press disables while short toggles.
I have the SAME PROBLEM. This is ridiculous. The wifi keeps turning itself on after being disabled in control center. I USE my frigging own judgement to tirn on or off wifi. APPLE you DO NO FRIGGING decide for me. My wifi keeps turning on every ~10 minutes. Not even just once 5am everyday. I have an ipad pro, macbook pro, apple watch, iphone 8. I love continunity but I DECIDE FOR MYSELF WHEN I WANT BT OR WIFI ON MYSELF. IT IS NOT YOUR CALL APPLE.
Additionally, this leaves thousands of users not knowing that they are actually broadcasting a WiFi and Bluetooth signal. That could lead to a lot of major security problems. The capacities that hackers have in today’s world are unbelievable. What if a iPhone users keeps unintentionally connecting to public WiFi signals? Hackers now have big opportunities. Think Apple. Apple engineers are not this ignorant. This leads to one conclusion,
Apple cares more about their customers ability to share everything rather than their actually security.
This is by far the worst update that Apple has ever came up with.
Apple, give your customers the option for the control panel to “turn off” or “disconnect” from signals.
woodsls wrote:
Just want to state it is annoying every time I want to turn WiFi off that I have to go to Settings! This auto turning it on is dangerous to the device In my area.
If is dangerous, then you should not be telling us, as your fellow iOS users are powerless to change this.
You should be telling Apple
iPhone Feedback
<https://www.apple.com/feedback/iphone.html>
They will not reply, but it does get read.
SERIOUSLY?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?
There is NOTHING helpful about this moronically stupid change, you flipping idiots at Apple. Do you even USE your phone in the real world?
Absolutely DUMB. I want a simple to get to switch to turn OFF WIFI... Not a "Just for now... " button that keeps my phone desperately trying to find Wifi.
Would you like to know why?
I work in a large metropolitan area, downtown. As I walk around, my phone finds a wifi signal, then drops it, then finds another, then drops it, then finds another, lather, rinse, repeat.
I'm CONSTANTLY having to tell it to stop looking for wifi, and then my phone stops receiving messages, or the stream I'm listening to drops, etc., all because Apple, in it's eternal quest to SCREW UP MY WORLD decided to make a change anyone who actually USES a phone and MOVES from their desk knows is STUPID.
Dumb.
Exactly my point earlier. Walking around a campus going from node to node is very different than walking around a downtown metropolitan area.
My experience is as I move away from a useful WiFi node, and connect to a bad one, my streaming stops, because the Apple handoff from WiFi to mobile data is handled badly.
WiFi in iOS 11 keeps turning on
