How does Apple privately find offline devices?

Re:How does Apple privately find offline devices? by berbec on Wednesday June 05, 2019 @06:14PM (#20109686)

It gets worse: if you turn off wifi/bluetooth in control center, it only disconnects, keeping the radio active.

1: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208086

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Re:How does Apple privately find offline devices? by judge2020 on Wednesday June 05, 2019 @06:24PM (#20109747)

As it says on the page, this is to make sure a bunch of things still work (eg. you wouldn't really thing you need to keep Bluetooth enabled to use the pencil). Maybe the toast text "disconnecting nearby Wi-Fi until tomorrow" could be a little clearer.

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Re:How does Apple privately find offline devices? by sixstringtheory on Wednesday June 05, 2019 @06:36PM (#20109829)

From day one I’ve wanted a way to disable the automatic-reenabling feature.

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Re:How does Apple privately find offline devices? by jey on Wednesday June 05, 2019 @07:26PM (#20110113)

Use airplane mode then enable each one individually?

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Re:How does Apple privately find offline devices? by SHAKEDECADE on Thursday June 06, 2019 @01:24AM (#20111833)

You can use shortcuts to disable and enable things.

I use one labled ‘Car’ that turns off wifi, enables cellular data and BLT for the stereo and terminates after it ensures my (non-DNS) VPN is on. The other, ‘Home’ turns off cellular data and BLT, wifi on and again ensures my VPN is still active.

Also if you’ve got anything newer than a iPhone 6, you can 3D touch the settings icon to a pop-up menu to Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, Cellular Data and the Battery sub-menus. From there it’s an extra tap or two to disable stuff completely.

Formatting is likely terrible, I mobile-phoned this in..

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