Re:Apple's best product is now privacy
by jaegerpicker on Friday September 14, 2018 @02:27PM
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I don't think you are doing it wrong but in 90% of the cases that's on the app developer. The OS usually doesn't ask for wifi randomly but many apps do. They check for connectivity and if wifi isn't available they prompt the user. It's not hard code to write but it shouldn't be used often. I'm actually writing similar code right now but for a pretty good reason, I'm working a feature that might use the presence of a wifi network to indicate proximity to an IoT device.
Re:Apple's best product is now privacy
by saagarjha on Friday September 14, 2018 @02:19PM
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Presumably, you're trying to do something that requires a network connection when it prompts you? If that's not a case the behavior is likely a bug.
Re:Apple's best product is now privacy
by colejohnson66 on Friday September 14, 2018 @08:22PM
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Under Settings > Wi-Fi, turn off “Ask to join networks”
There is no way to make the &%*#ing thing stop whining about lack of wifi - it literally waits until I'm trying to do something else to throw up a shitty dialog trying to annoy me into turning it on.
I turn connectivity off for a reason, and no, Apple does not know better in this instance. It is incredibly user-hostile and irritating, and I hope the engineer that wrote that code gets pink eye[2].
[1] I know, I'm a weirdo. Trying to explain how I'm Doing It Wrong will lead me to ignore you.
[2] I kid. It is really annoying, though.