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 sigjuice on Friday October 06, 2017 @03:15AM (#15414983)

When you get on a plane, enabling Airplane Mode should turn off all the radios on an iPhone or iPad. You say flight mode doesn't work, so is this no longer the case?

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Re:iOS 11's Misleading "Off-Ish" Setting for Radios Is Bad f... by josteink on Friday October 06, 2017 @03:56AM (#15415108)

I believe flight mode actually works, but people with wifi-only devices have been conditioned to believe disabling wifi is sufficient.

And with Apple now being inconsistent about what a on/off toggle actually does... It's hard to tell what toggling flight-mode actually results in.

And if I were in the airline business, I would take an issue with that.

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Re:iOS 11's Misleading "Off-Ish" Setting for Radios Is Bad f... by sigjuice on Friday October 06, 2017 @04:13AM (#15415177)

I am actually quite surprised by this and to me it looks like people are just overcomplicating things. You get on a plane, you turn on Airplane Mode. Simple. It would never ever occur to me in a million years to turn on Airplane Mode on my phone, but then go ahead and just turn off the wifi on my iPad. Also, isn't Bluetooth also supposed to be off, which Airplane Mode would take care of?

EDIT: This is what Airplane Mode looks like https://i.imgur.com/mEMYdL6.jpg https://i.imgur.com/4L3uZmm.jpg

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Re:iOS 11's Misleading "Off-Ish" Setting for Radios Is Bad f... by evolve2017 on Friday October 06, 2017 @08:09AM (#15416121)

As an opposing viewpoint, turning off wifi is exactly what I used to do when boarding a plane - my bluetooth radio is always off.

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