{"id":9414,"date":"2017-09-20T09:45:08","date_gmt":"2017-09-20T17:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2017\/09\/20\/news-3187\/"},"modified":"2017-09-20T09:45:08","modified_gmt":"2017-09-20T17:45:08","slug":"news-3187","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2017\/09\/20\/news-3187\/","title":{"rendered":"Turning Off Wi-Fi and Bluetooth in iOS 11&#8217;s Control Center Doesn\u2019t Actually Turn Off Wi-Fi or Bluetooth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/video-images.vice.com\/articles\/59c29e247bda5c2fd26683e4\/lede\/1505927119320-4F984C73-1712-4F06-9C9F-9C2A7623D64B.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Credit to Author: Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai| Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2017 17:07:50 +0000<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> Turning off Bluetooth and Wi-Fi when you&#8217;re not using them on your smartphone has long been standard, common sense, advice. Unfortunately, with the iPhone&#8217;s new operating system iOS 11, turning them off is not as easy as it used to be.<\/p>\n<p> Now, when you toggle Bluetooth and Wi-Fi off from the iPhone&#8217;s Control Center\u2014the somewhat confusing menu that appears when you swipe up from the bottom of the phone\u2014it actually doesn&#8217;t completely turn them off. While that might sound like a bug, that&#8217;s actually what Apple intended in the new operating system. But security researchers warn that users might not realize this and, as a consequence, could leave Bluetooth and Wi-Fi on without noticing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__blockquote\"> <b> Read more: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/motherboard.vice.com\/en_us\/article\/bmv5a4\/the-motherboard-guide-to-not-getting-hacked\"><b> The Motherboard Guide to Not Getting Hacked<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p> &#8220;It is stupid,&#8221; Collin Mulliner, a security researcher who&#8217;s studied Bluetooth for years, told Motherboard in a Twitter chat. &#8220;It is not clear for the user.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> To be clear, and to be fair, this behavior is exactly what Apple wants. <a href=\"https:\/\/support.apple.com\/en-us\/HT208086\" target=\"_blank\">In its own documentation<\/a>, the company says that &#8220;in iOS 11 and later, when you toggle the Wi-Fi or Bluetooth buttons in Control Center, your device will immediately disconnect from Wi-Fi and Bluetooth accessories. Both Wi-Fi and Bluetooth will continue to be available.&#8221; That is because Apple wants the iPhone to be able to continue using AirDrop, AirPlay, Apple Pencil, Apple Watch, Location Services, and other features, according to the documentation. <\/p>\n<p> Motherboard tested this behavior on an iPhone with iOS 11 installed and verified that Bluetooth and Wi-Fi remain on in the settings after turning them off in the Control Center, as some users have started to notice.<\/p>\n<div data-iframely-id=\"gmpRAAi\" class=\"article__embed article__embed--iframely\">\n<div style=\"left: 0; width: 100%; height: 0; position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.2493%;\" data-iframely-smart-iframe=\"true\"><iframe  src= width=\"100%\" height=\"420\" frameborder=\"0\" ><\/iframe> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p> Andrea Barisani, a security researcher and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AndreaBarisani\/status\/910472717132091393\" target=\"_blank\">one of the first people to notice this change<\/a>, said in a Twitter direct message that the new user interface is not obvious at all and makes the user experience more &#8220;uncomfortable.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p> Turning off Bluetooth and Wi-Fi reduces your exposure to potential attacks to hardware, firmware and software, so &#8220;it&#8217;s good practice,&#8221; Barisani told me. Just last week, security researchers <a href=\"https:\/\/motherboard.vice.com\/en_us\/article\/nee8gz\/hackers-could-silently-hack-your-cellphone-and-computers-over-bluetooth\">revealed the existence of a series of bugs<\/a> in the way some operating systems implemented Bluetooth that allowed hackers to take over victim&#8217;s devices as long as the Bluetooth was on\u2014without needing to trick the user into clicking a malicious link or do anything at all. <\/p>\n<p> It&#8217;s worth mentioning that both Bluetooth and Wi-Fi will become active again when you toggle them off in the Control Center at 5 AM local time, according to Apple&#8217;s documentation. It&#8217;s unclear why that is, but just so you know. <\/p>\n<p> Apple did not immediately respond to a request for comment. <\/p>\n<p> The takeaway is that if you want to really and completely turn off Bluetooth and Wi-Fi on iOS11 you can&#8217;t do it from the Control Center anymore, you&#8217;ll have to do it through the Settings app.<\/p>\n<p> <b> <i> Get six of our favorite Motherboard stories every day <\/i><\/b><b> <i> <a href=\"http:\/\/motherboard.club\/\" target=\"_blank\">by signing up for our newsletter.<\/a><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/motherboard.vice.com\/en_us\/article\/evpz7a\/turn-off-wi-fi-and-bluetooth-apple-ios-11\" target=\"bwo\" >https:\/\/motherboard.vice.com\/en_us\/rss<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/video-images.vice.com\/articles\/59c29e247bda5c2fd26683e4\/lede\/1505927119320-4F984C73-1712-4F06-9C9F-9C2A7623D64B.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Credit to Author: Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai| Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2017 17:07:50 +0000<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>And it\u2019s a feature, not a bug.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[10643,13328,10378],"tags":[2211,11472,10480,14900,11721,8826,32,9581,11235],"class_list":["post-9414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-independent","category-motherboard","category-security","tag-apple","tag-bluetooth","tag-ios","tag-ios-11","tag-ipad","tag-iphone","tag-news","tag-tech-news","tag-wi-fi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9414\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}