WiFi in iOS 11 keeps turning on

Imagine the lawsuit from the people who is sensitive to microwaves and the ones trying to keep away from it while sleeping etc. «Wi-fi» radiation poison is the new peoples disease.

Wow, how much are you gettin payed for stating that obviously false claim?

Yes, that’s what I want it to be. A binary switch. It can be enhanced to add a third mode, but off should be off.

Agree on your point on writing to Apple for this :-)

I always forget #4. Of course, I don't remember the last time I turned WiFi off.

marvin270 wrote:

As it is, it’s just an extra two pointless taps which are not intuitive to find/use if you aren’t aware of how the feature has been updated.

But, now you are aware.

Same. And the battery life on the iPhoneX is terrible. These phones aren’t only getting worse.

Apple isn't here.

What WiFi problem? If you turn it off in settings it is off.

Please read the bazillion previous posts with explanations of how you can do what you want.

How are you turning it off? There are 3 ways to turn off Wi-Fi:

• Settings/Wi-Fi - turn off
• Say "Hey Siri, turn off Wi-Fi"
• Hold the HOME button and say "Turn off Wi-Fi"

If you use any of these three Wi-Fi will stay off. The button in the iOS 11 control center is a new feature that just disconnects from the current Wi-Fi network.

However, when you are driving your location services will work much better if you leave it on.

Rathead21 wrote:

I also happen to me even when I go in the settings a switch it off, a few hours later it comes on by itself.

That would be a bug, and you should report it

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christian.james wrote:

With all due respect, this feature is completely impractical and quite frankly...asinine. What’s the point of having a WiFi control button if it’s main function is to disconnect rather than to turn off the WiFi completely? It is equivalent to having an airplane mode that only disconnects from one cellular signal and/or one WiFi signal.

Because the purpose of the buttons is to dissociate from connected networks and devices; the toggles are to turn on and off.

Yes it's on purpose, it's a feature.

What's the point? At least three or four times a day I connect to a retail or restaurant hot spot that is less than functional on the Internet, and I can instantly disconnect and not have to remember to turn Wi-Fi back on later.

I'm having the same issue. After the new iOS 11 update the Wifi is switching on automatically. I have the Wifi always switched off for a better battery efficiency. Now this was changed with the new iOS which is always turning on and not joining the known network automatically. Always asks to join a network and I have to chose which network (even if the network is known and remembered). I went to forget the network within the wifi settings and tried to re-join the network but its still switching the wifi on and asking which network to join (known or unknown). Also the iOS icons are misplaced when swiping from left to right on the home screen. When I slide to the next page of apps and back then the icons are place back to the correct order. Very annoying and only using it for a week. Hope this will get fixed soon.

Kinmeh wrote:

A pop like this keeping coming whenever a wifi connection is detected, even after disabling the wifi from the control centre. It is super annoying. P.s. This one happened as I started typing this reply.

That's because you didn't shut off Wi-Fi, you just disassociated from your current hotspot because of the new behavior of Control Center buttons.

Please read this thread from the beginning.

I was walking in midtown Manhattan today. There are dozens, if not hundreds of WiFi networks. My WiFi was on. It did not attempt to connect to any of them. If yours does, there is something wrong with your phone, or you have Ask to join networks enabled.

coreybenson wrote:

I walk in a downtown area. My phone attempts to connect to every open WiFi connection it gets into range with. Some of those require a confirmation, some are just crappy or overloaded. The affect is my connection drops constantly.

Settings > WiFi > Ask to Join Networks (turn it OFF)

coreybenson wrote:

Plus, there’s this simple little control panel thingie. It USED to turn WiFi off, now it doesn’t, and the change has made the phone less useful.

Lawrence Finch wrote:

What cracks me up is the people who don't understand that there is practically never a reason to turn off either Wi-Fi or Bluetooth. And anyone so misguided as to think there is a reason can still do it with two taps in the Settings app.