How are they supposed to know “Bluetooth Off” means “Only some amount of Bluetooth is off”?
When bluetooth is on, the icon is blue. When connecting is off, the icon is white. When bluetooth is fully off, the icon is grey. The same goes for wifi. It even gives you a
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Thanks, I never used an Apple Product, so I didn’t have the contextual infromation!
To me it sounded like a binary state (on/off), as I know it from most phones I’ve seen.
I still think it’s unfair to blame the user. Apple design is not as consistent or as intuitive as touted. Their UI still has lots of hidden features, inconsistent behavior and strange decisions.
Before the iOS overhaul, you went Settings>Bluetooth>Toggle to turn off BT. That still works like it did before. But what most people do now is just swipe from the top-right and tap the shortcut.
Perhaps, they added, Apple could add a warning message when using the Control Panel toggles that alerts the user that tapping on its Bluetooth icon doesn’t completely shut off Bluetooth and their iPhone can still interact with proximity-activated beacons, such as Bochs’ contraption.
So they are saying “off” isn’t really off if you do it in the control center, you have so go into settings to completely turn it off.
I don’t know if it turns itself black on (blue) when something is trying to connect.
When bluetooth is on, the icon is blue. When connecting is off, the icon is white. When bluetooth is fully off, the icon is grey. The same goes for wifi. It even gives you a
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That’s not new.
Thanks, I never used an Apple Product, so I didn’t have the contextual infromation!
To me it sounded like a binary state (on/off), as I know it from most phones I’ve seen.
I still think it’s unfair to blame the user. Apple design is not as consistent or as intuitive as touted. Their UI still has lots of hidden features, inconsistent behavior and strange decisions.
Just had to use my wife’s iphone and felt like a moron trying to navigate it.
I don’t know the gestures, the last iOS device I supported still had that center home button.
It wasn’t always like this. It started somewhere around the iPhone X I think. It used to actually turn off wifi/bt in the menu.
Before the iOS overhaul, you went Settings>Bluetooth>Toggle to turn off BT. That still works like it did before. But what most people do now is just swipe from the top-right and tap the shortcut.
Yea the control center used to turn them off. Apple changed it to “disconnect until tomorrow” in iOS 11. So iOS 7-10 it functioned fine.
I don’t know if it turns itself black on (blue) when something is trying to connect.