Well if you have the Find My Device functionality enabled, not being able to turn off Bluetooth (and WiFi) is a good thing, since a thief cannot disable location deriving and reporting features by turning them off.

I don’t think those are connected…or at least it would be silly for that to be the case. Say your laptop was stolen when your BT was off for some random reason - does that mean you won’t be able to find it?

Bluetooth is a fundamental part of the Find My and broader Location Services stack.

Low power devices like AirTag rely entirely on Bluetooth LE and the Find My network to determine their location.

Yes but does it matter if your BT is turned off _visually_? The device can still send data.

Besides, receiving consumes more power than sending, theoretically Apple can just shut off the receiving part and send intermittently (every 2 sec or so) and achieve very minimal power usage.

Again, this is just speculation, I’m genuinely interested in the details.

Surely the Bluetooth beacon/Find My Device workflow could be separated from the user accessible headphones use.

> Horrendous UX decisions by Apple.

Is there any OS that offers that by default? I don't remember ever seeing that on Windows or any linux distro I used.

Whether other OSs do by default is irrelevant. Are you saying that I just be content with the ability to turn off WiFi?

Besides, MacOS is cherished by many as a UX/UI masterpiece, yet there are many annoyances that need to be fixed by the user. For example window management is a big one, I simply haven’t been able to achieve the comfort of i3 on my work Mac. (tmux comes close, but I can’t run Firefox in there)

> a feature which is available for WiFi

I am not able to disable WiFi from the login screen.

I think it would be a horrendous decision to allow random people to do this.

All this is available on an iPhone, including wifi, cellular, bluetooth, airplane mode, hotspot and airdrop control.

But maybe that’s beside the point, I’m interested why you see this as a bad thing?