why cant i turn off wifi in the control center in ios 11? it just says not connected when i go to settings.

In most cases, you won't know a network is "compromised," whatever that means. In the unlikely event you do know (maybe your IT department issued a warning) you don't turn off WiFi, you immediately disconnect from it (which the Control Center will do), then go to Settings/WiFi and forget the network. You will never connect to it again except by choice. To do the same thing by turning off WiFi you would have to leave it off for the rest of your life.

Note that there are currently no WiFi vulnerabilities on an iOS device (with version 10.3.3 or later), and if any are discovered Apple will issue a security update almost immediately.

Open networks that do not implement encryption (any that don't require login or have you log in via a web page as their only security) such as Starbuck's are also safe to use as long as you never go to a web page that does not implement SSL. That means pages that begin "https://". All apps are required to use SSL, and the default for mail, unless you turn it off, is SSL.

i'm sure people smarter than I will be able to think of more security risks than I was capable of thinking of in the 13 seconds I thought about this situation. But i'm sure apple thought about this as well.

A whole team of people smarter than you, at least on the subject of Internet security, have thought about it a lot, probably for over a year, and the latest version of iOS 11 is the result.

They've also implemented some "under the hood" protection that you never see. Since late 2014 any time your iOS device is "pinged" by a network that it is not already "paired" the device returns a randomly generated MAC (WiFi) address that changes constantly. This is to protect you from the practice of tracking you through your device's address. Most other companies are now copying this innovation, but Apple was the first.

Yes there is something to fix. I’ve been complaining about this since the first public beta of iOS 11. They need to take it back to the way it was in iOS 10 and before when you could just swipe up and turn it completely off in one step instead of having to go clear to the settings app to turn them completely off which waste time. This is one of the issues that makes me feel apple is taking a step backward and not forward cause for me it’s frustrating and now I can’t go back to iOS 10.3.3. That’s one of the reasons I’m starting to call iOS 11 a trashy operating system. That and the poor battery life I’m getting now.

I'm sorry you dislike it, but there were previously 4 ways to turn off Wi-Fi. Now there are 3. That doesn't sound like a change to get upset about, especially as iOS 11 uses a previously redundant button to implement a really useful function, one that I use a couple of times a day. Perhaps if you try using it you will see its advantages.

I don't know why you turn off Wi-Fi frequently; there is no valid reason to ever turn it off, except to disconnect from a network, and now you can do that without disabling the other uses of Wi-Fi such as improving the accuracy of location services.

Could we expect a fix for this problem in the near future ??

I would argue making a change to an accepted and expected function in such a confusing/misleading fashion is a stupid change. It’s like changing turning on the lights of your car with making that action simply turning on the running lights. Same action, almost the intended result, but definitely not the intended result. And most people won’t notice the difference until it’s too late.

Questionable Sanity wrote:

I would argue making a change to an accepted and expected function in such a confusing/misleading fashion is a stupid change. It’s like changing turning on the lights of your car win making that action simply turning on the running lights. Same action, almost the intended result, but definitely not the intended result. And most people won’t notice the difference until it’s too late.

Apple has a long history of implementing changes that people, at first, think are horrible.

"Too late" for what? Not turning off your WiFi or BT is not exactly in the same category as not turning on your car's headlights.

Fair enough. Your battery going dead faster than you expect isn’t the same as getting a ticket from the cops for not having your lights on. But the point remains the same: changing an expected function to something not the same but appears the same is a poor design decision.

Questionable Sanity wrote:

Fair enough. Your battery going dead faster than you expect isn’t the same as getting a ticket from the cops for not having your lights on. But the point remains the same: changing an expected function to something not the same but appears the same is a poor design decision.

Why would my battery go dead faster than I expect? I don't ever turn WiFi off.

It’s still annoying and makes me want to leave apple as well as the poor battery life going on right now with iOS 11.0.2. If apple doesn’t get it together soon after I’ve paid my device off enough to upgrade I’ll be going to the note 8 where I can turn off wifi from the control menu and not settings. Apple shouldn’t have stopped signing iOS 10.3.3. Cause that’s where I would’ve stayed if I knew iOS 11 would turn out this poorly.

All I know for me it’s making me want to go to android that much more where I can always turn it completely off and have more control over my device which is sad since I’ve been an apple fan since the 3GS plus Samsung pay is 10 times better than Apple Pay and bixby does 10 times more than Siri could ever think of doing.

You should definitely do it, then. You should always get the product that best meets you needs and desires.

But why do you think anyone here cares wat you do? Just do it! There was no need to tell us.

I completely agree with you, this seems like a MAJOR security issue. Just one more reason apple is falling so far behind.

But hey, change is always better when its for the sole purpose of saying you had a change right????? Otherwise we wouldn't get a marginally better chip and camera every year for $1000+

newt267 wrote:

I completely agree with you, this seems like a MAJOR security issue. Just one more reason apple is falling so far behind.

Please explain how it is a security issue. It is not a security issue in any way. Apple is one of the most security conscious companies in the world; do you think they would have missed this as a security problem if it truly was one?