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Re:iOS 11's Misleading "Off-Ish" Setting for Radios Is Bad f... by zaroth on Friday October 06, 2017 @01:56AM (#15414730)
My thought was the WiFi icon should turn into a progress indicator to show that its snoozing, maybe like how apps show they are installing by graying it out in a circular sweep.
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Re:iOS 11's Misleading "Off-Ish" Setting for Radios Is Bad f... by function_seven on Friday October 06, 2017 @02:15AM (#15414793)
That would make me think it's trying to connect. I don't think motion would be appropriate for the intermediate state of a tri-state indicator.

Maybe a lighter shade of blue? Or a white background with the icon colored vivid blue?

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Re:iOS 11's Misleading "Off-Ish" Setting for Radios Is Bad f... by MBCook on Friday October 06, 2017 @10:41AM (#15417123)
They actually have a way to show this. If you play around with the other buttons and modes they seem to use colored for on/connected, grey for on/disconnected, and grey with a line through it for radio off.
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Re:iOS 11's Misleading "Off-Ish" Setting for Radios Is Bad f... by badwolf on Friday October 06, 2017 @11:22AM (#15417484)
If you put your iPhone in "Airplane" mode, the wifi shows "OFF" (with a slash through it) vs toggling the wifi button just grays it out and shows "not connected"

Seems fine for me /shrug

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Re:iOS 11's Misleading "Off-Ish" Setting for Radios Is Bad f... by KozmoNau7 on Friday October 06, 2017 @05:51AM (#15415553)
Grey out the icon, and add a "zzz" indicator to it?
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