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lkbmtoday at 1:37 AM2 repliesview on HN

Airplane mode doesn't turn off wifi or Bluetooth, though obviously you can do that in addition to airplane mode.


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Terrettatoday at 3:30 AM

Right, the airplane icon does not necessarily.

Settings for WiFi, turn off; settings for Bluetooth, turn off; does turn them off.

This change was the result of years of supporting people meaning to turn it off in one place or one day, then confused it didn't work at home or the next day.

So now airplane mode is a conditional off (the state machine across cellular, wifi, and bluetooth is pretty decent at doing a reasonable set of toggles), while the settings are off off.

The near field stuff seems to remain available; full shutdown turns that off too.

SamBamtoday at 2:17 AM

Is that an iPhone thing? On Android airplane mode turns off both Wi-Fi and Bluetooth.

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