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

Based on what I'm seeing on these forums, iOS 11 has been a far smoother upgrade than most. Most people experienced decreased battery life for the first day or so as the phone was doing a bunch of background maintenance, probably associated with the change in file systems. If that didn't resolve, you may have other issues going on. Stuck Exchange accounts are one of the most common causes of problems after an upgrade. One of my biggest gripes with upgrades is that they often seem to reset various settings without warning. It's worth going through your settings and making sure that something didn't get changed.

Apple has never supported downgrading. There's no reason to expect they're likely to change that.

You should, however, buy the phone that best meets your needs. As a significant percentage Android phones never get updates, you should be able to avoid unwanted upgrades pretty easily.

newt267 wrote:

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+

No one is forcing you to buy iPhones if you don't like them.

You mean that people routinely turn Wi-Fi and Bluetooth off? Once I've turned them on, I don't turn them off. It works quite well with my Apple Watch, and my Bluetooth enabled hearing aid. I cannot understand why people want to turn them on/off all of the time. It has a very minimal effect on battery life. Actually more of what they are doing to get to turn it off/on is probably consuming more battery life, agreed? 😕

I agree. The old system worked so it was a useful function. Now I turn that WiFi button to white aka off and on one phone it turns itself right back on, not waiting til 5 am, and on the other it turns white and says it will be off till tomorrow. So, yeah, since they don’t do the same thing I’d say one is broken & neither is as convenient as the original short cut menu & that irritates me. Not to mention it took a while to find the airdrop shortcut and that was found by accident. The first response as to this not being broken. In other words this was an on purpose change by Apple misses the point that the change stinks.

fletcher119 wrote:

I completely agree with jvplata that the control panel should turn ON/OFF WiFi and Bluetooth like it did prior to iOS 11. (Article confirms that we aren’t imaging that prior iOS’s did indeed toggle on/off.) I turn them off many times per day when I want to conserve battery. I don’t want to have to go into settings every time I want to do that.

I completely disagree. Before iOS 11 there were FOUR ways to completely turn off Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. Now there are THREE. Plus a very valuable new feature, to disconnect the current Wi-Fi or Bluetooth connection without turning off Wi-Fi.

And turning off Wi-Fi in the control center is not less work than the other three. Settings/Wi-Fi off, vs swipe up (which requires more energy and time than tapping Settings) and tapping the button. I can turn off Wi-Fi or Bluetooth holding the phone one-handed. I cannot swipe up one handed.

Besides, there is a no-tap way: "Hey Siri, turn off Wi-Fi" or "Hey Siri, turn off Bluetooth"

And, as LACAllen says, turning off Wi-Fi does not conserve battery. But it DOES make your Location Services less accurate. And if Wi-Fi is off all background data updates go via the cellular route, which uses up to 20 times more energy than Wi-Fi.

FWIW I have never turned off Wi-Fi, except to disconnect from a current network, and now I don't even need to turn it off for that purpose. And that's for over 10 years. And my battery life is more than adequate.