iOS 11's Misleading "Off-Ish" Setting for Radios Is Bad for User Security

Re:iOS 11's Misleading "Off-Ish" Setting for Radios Is Bad f... by comex on Thursday October 05, 2017 @11:30PM (#15414224)

You can? On my phone, deep pressing on the 'block' in Control Center containing the Wi-Fi icon gets me to a submenu, which adds text labels to the existing toggles and adds two more toggles (AirDrop and Personal Hotspot). However, pressing the Wi-Fi button from that submenu seems to have the same effect as outside of it, and deep pressing it (as well as long pressing it) has no effect.

edit: but you can definitely turn them off through the Settings app.

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Re:iOS 11's Misleading "Off-Ish" Setting for Radios Is Bad f... by morganvachon on Friday October 06, 2017 @09:07AM (#15416467)

As I said elsewhere, I repeated the GP's claim without testing it myself, assuming good faith on his part. After testing I found it wasn't true. Unfortunately I can't edit my original comment now, so I've been apologizing throughout the thread.

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Re:iOS 11's Misleading "Off-Ish" Setting for Radios Is Bad f... by blub on Friday October 06, 2017 @02:11AM (#15414779)

I can't, it's complete bullshit as I don't even have any devices paired. The long press is useless, it does nothing.

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