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Re:iOS 11's Misleading "Off-Ish" Setting for Radios Is Bad f... by mtgx on Friday October 06, 2017 @02:53AM (#15414912)
Apparently the "security motivated" have to discover when Apple has completely changed how their apps and settings work, too.

Are the "security motivated" also expected to know if iMessage or FaceTime stopped using end-to-end encryption, too?

These things should be communicated. Also, all Apple had to do was make it a 3-toggle button instead of a 2-toggle one. Just keep the normal way of turning-off Wi-Fi and add a new one for Disconnect Wi-Fi, too. Nothing could be simpler. But no, Apple has to be "courageous" in pissing off a large portion of their users each time they do something, rather than implementing a UX change as simple as that without disturbing well learned UX behaviors for their users.

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Re:iOS 11's Misleading "Off-Ish" Setting for Radios Is Bad f... by dx034 on Friday October 06, 2017 @03:35AM (#15415036)
It was communicated, Apple has a page on that. It just wasn't a big part of the announcement. And the tech press covered it well enough so that it's hard to argue that users didn't know about it (at least those who are interested).
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