[joeblau]

You seem to be confused about that post. That only refers to turning off WiFi from Control Center. If you go into settings and turn off WiFi, it will actually turn the radio off. Separately, in Location and Privacy, you can disable location for your whole phone or on an App by App basis. Control Center WiFi is not tied to this.

[kevingrahl]

It is a massive step backwards though in my opinion, changing the functionality of the toggle in control center from disabling WiFi to just disconnecting the device.

A privacy conscious user now has to do 4 actions (Unlock, open Settings, WiFi, disabling it) instead of two (swipe up, disabling it) to disable the WiFi.

I doubt many normal users would notice the difference, maybe thinking the toggle has the same functionality as before thus thinking they won’t constantly broadcast their known WiFi networks and thereby the pretty accurate location of their frequently visited places.

Please correct me if I misunderstood something!

Edit: I meant standard as in: If no other option than SMS 2FA is available.

[joeblau]

You got it, you're right, and I agree.

I rarely go into Settings to disable WiFi, but it seems like I'll have to start doing that now.