[walterbell]

> and this saves you from forgetting to turn it back on

Apple has since extended this helpful "innovation" to the power button, which no longer turns off iPhones, requiring a faraday bag to block WiFi/BT/UWB radios from communicating while iPhone is "powered off".

[Ferrotin]

Do you mean to say that “slide to power off” leaves Wi-Fi radios active?

[walterbell]

https://9to5mac.com/2021/06/07/ios-15-find-my-network-can-fi...

> With iOS 15, your iPhone is still traceable through the Find My network even when the device is powered off. It seems that with iOS 15, the phone is not really fully ‘powered off’, it stays in a low-power state and acts like an AirTag, allowing any nearby iOS device to pick up the Bluetooth signal and send back its location.

[radicality]

Afaik if you care about that, you should be able to fully turn off Find My integration?

The idea does have some benefit though. For example, if you enable “Express Transit” for Apple Pay and your phone runs out of battery, you still will be able to tap-to-pay for a subway / bus ride home. The payment NFC subsystem is also separate and has its own battery reserve.

[walterbell]

Apple could better describe the action that will be performed, e.g. "Slide to Suspend".

[NLPlatypus]

Try to turn off your iPhone. It says right on the screen it will be broadcasting its location even when it’s off.

[walterbell]

> broadcasting.. when it's off.

So, not off then.

[Ferrotin]

Oh my. Thanks.