Why: Disconnecting Nearby Wi-Fi Until Tomorrow – iPhone Control Center
The latest iOS 11.2 now displays a notification message in Control Center when you toggle on or off Wireless. Disabling Wireless or Bluetooth in Control Center only disables these options until a condition is met mentioned below.
Disconnecting Nearby Wi-Fi Until Tomorrow
The current Wi-Fi network and others nearby will be disconnected until tomorrow.
Wi-Fi will continue to be available for AirDrop, Personal Hotspot, and location accuracy.
And also for Bluetooth…
Disconnecting Bluetooth Accessories Until Tomorrow
Currently connected accessories will be disconnected and other accessories will not connect.
Bluetooth will continue to be available for Apple Watch, Apple Pencil, Personal Hotspot, and Handoff.
Wi-Fi will remain disabled in Control Center until one of the following occurs:
*You re-enable Wi-Fi
*Move to a new location
*A new day 5:00am
*You reboot your iOS device
Bluetooth will remain disabled in Control Center until one of the following occurs:
*You re-enable Bluetooth
*A new day 5:00am
*You reboot your iOS device
In order to permanently disable Wi-Fi or Bluetooth, you must do so now in iOS settings.
Settings -> Wi-Fi -> Toggle Off
Settings -> Bluetooth -> Toggle Off
The new Control Center notification messages may seem confusing at first, but in reality you can still use Control Center to disable Wi-Fi or Bluetooth quickly if you still need to. If you need to disable Wi-Fi or Bluetooth permanently, do so in iOS settings.
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This is clearly so that Apple can access your wifi so that they are able to illegally use you ISP to auto-download their software updates without your consent. Even if you have auto-updates disabled they still automatically download their device-killing updates (sometimes up to 4GB large) to your device, so that if you accidentally hit the wrong button when their nagging “update available” pop-up comes on your screen (again these pop-ups occur even if you have auto updates disabled) it will instantly start updating against your will. Apple has turned into such a pathetic trash company, and I will NEVER purchase another Apple product for as long as I live.
This is just another example of Apple wanting to be all things to all people. When I turn off WiFi and Bluetooth, I want them to STAY off. Turning off until tomorrow stinks.
lol...thank you people-I am not alone in thinking this is absolutely STUPID!
Yet another unwanted worm infesting Apple software! Get rid of it!!!
I could not agree more with some of the others here. When I want wifi off, I want it off until I choose to turn it back on. Is it so difficult to include another button in Control Center to switch it off completely? This oversight is inexplicable.
I suspect this "feature" like the others (throttling CPU, auto-brightness that max-es screen's brightness out of nowhere) has been introduced to drain battery for older phones to force people to upgrade, look at the sales figures... not sure you are aware that DOJ and SEC are looking into allegations that these features have been introduced on purpose
Is there any way to make the disconnecting wifi nearby after tommarow butten work out??
This is totally RIDICILIOUS!!!!, especially when travel a lot and need my bluetooth to connect to my car so I can take calls when I am on the road, with out my bluetooth I am not able to be hand free and this causes a HUGE inconvenience. Apple really needs to rethink this!!!!! I ready to get rid of my
i-phone!!!!!
It’s not like we couldn’t just tap the icon in the control center to turn it back on again.......... I fail to see the logic behind this and other updates that have come recently. Apple is pushing customers away.
What kind of pathetic design is this? Are we all imbeciles that can't decide how to use our phone?
"Geniuses" - yeah, right.
This is so freaking stupid. I’m currently locked out from using my Bluetooth because I turned it off to save my battery. Now I can’t use it the rest of the day because of this new bullshit update. Thanks a lot Apple for another one of your bullshit updates
TERRIBLE, TERRIBLE, TERRIBLE IDEA! WHAT WERE THEY THINKING?!
If Apple starts working like Microsoft now, why would you even get an Apple product in the first place? This has been the third OS update in a very short period of time and EVERY new iteration of the Control Center is objectively worse than the previous one. I was seriously hoping that this new OS update would fix the problem of the Wifi reconnecting automatically for no particular reason when I had manually turned it off from the Control Center, but this new update now extends this inane feature to apparently the whole Control Center. What next? The flashlight turning on automatically when it gets dark outside or at 4AM every day?
I might be one of the few people who actually enjoys this feature.
Some of the wifi networks I use are not very reliable, so I disconnect whenever they're not working well, but I don't want to fully remove them either. I used to disable my wifi completely, but I'd often forget and then and be using my data when just at work or at home.
Very strange though, that Apple seems to focus their attention to such a minor group of people that would enjoy this, and not even allowing others to disable this feature.
That defeats the purpose of even having the control center. The whole point of it is to save us the steps of going to settings but, if pressing the shortcuts doesn’t actually turn off the items you are selecting to turn off, then it’s just a wastes of time and effort. We are capable of committing to our decisions. If we want something off, we select off, and we want it to remain that way until WE say so, not some BS auto back on feature. With this “shortcut” we have to re-shut off items everyday, that is stupid. Hey Apple, we are not stupid robots, we are capable of making our own decisions about the on/off status of our phones’ features. We don’t need the phone to automatically turn s**t back on at 5am! Get this, if something is set on or off, it’s because I f***ing want it that way, and if I didn’t, I would manually make the change. I am in control here, and f*** you for trying to micromanage us. Bring back the mentality of Steve Jobs because you are quickly losing your grip on the market to Google. They are already making phones and computers, and their maps, mail, notes, and data storage all surpass Apple’s versions of the same. Keep this BS up, and you will see your demise real soon.
This was a terrible idea. Also when I try to reconnect to my WiFi it says there is no internet connection try restarting the router and modem. Seriously there is nothing wrong with the connection my computer has WiFi just fine. Seriously WTF.
this sucks. building up their own location database instead of putting users first. and now trying to explain it with this ridiculous message. apple has lost their edge.
When I want things turned off I want them turned off. This is an awful idea
Who In the hell at Apple actually thought this was a good idea
y tho is the question. its so bad
I like To turn off my cellular data and use WiFi for my shoes and stuff. This sucks so bad.