• edric@lemm.ee
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    8 months ago

    Right, but the person I was replying to appears to be saying there is a toggle button that isn’t airplane mode to turn off the antenna, unless I’m misunderstanding.

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        8 months ago

        On iPhone the airplane toggle is the cellular toggle. It leaves all your other radios active.

        It also disables GPS but only because that doesn’t work anyway in a fast moving faraday cage without cell tower triangulation.

        If you want to disable wifi or bluetooth, those are separate toggles… and by default they just disconnect from your current wifi network and some of your bluetooth devices (your smart watch for example, will stay connected over bluetooth). The buttons are there to use if your wifi or bluetooth aren’t working properly, which can always be fixed by just disconnecting rather than disabling the radio entirely.

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          8 months ago

          Airplane mode is one button. Cellular is another button.

          Just pull up your control center and you should see.

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            8 months ago

            In iOS, the cell-tower-looking button is for data, it doesn’t disable all of your cellular radios. If you hold down the button in Control Center so it pops up the larger version with descriptions, you’ll see that it says “Cellular Data.”

            The Airplane Mode button disables your cellular radios but leaves WiFi and Bluetooth enabled. This is what you want for airplanes. Hence the name “Airplane Mode.”

            It’s been a couple years since I had an Android phone (rest in peace, OnePlus 7T Pro 5G, you were too good for this world) but I think to accomplish the same I had to enable airplane mode and then re-enable WiFi and Bluetooth, but I could be mistaken.

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        8 months ago

        Yes but the cellular toggle is for mobile data only. Turning it off won’t stop your phone from trying to connect to a network when there isn’t any (which drains the battery unnecessarily). Airplane mode turns off the antenna completely. The person I was replying to appears to say there is a button to do the latter without using airplane mode.

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        8 months ago

        Probably, but that’s android right? I’m not sure there is a similar control for IOS that isn’t airplane mode.