PSA: Turning off Wi-Fi or Bluetooth from Control Center in iOS 11 doesn’t actually turn them off

The shiny new iOS 11 went out to supported iDevices yesterday. So you’re probably already enjoying its many benefits, but here’s something you may not know: the behavior of the Wi-Fi and Bluetooth toggles in Control Center is confusing.

You swipe up from the bottom, Control Center appears, you tap the Wi-Fi icon, it dims / turns grey, and voila – you’ve turned off Wi-Fi, right? Wrong. And the same goes for Bluetooth.

It turns out that using Control Center to turn off Wi-Fi only results in your phone immediately disconnecting from any network you are connected to (and auto-join for…


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