[PopAlongKid]

My stove came with "convection bake" and "convection roast" settings on the oven. Then some time after purchase I was offered to download an "air fryer" mode, but I would have to enable the wifi connection on my stove and use a smartphone app, which I do not want to do. Am I really missing much? Can a full-size home oven also be an effective air-fryer?

[Eisenstein]

An air fryer is just a small convection oven and since I don't know how an update can make your oven smaller, it sounds like a gimmick to me.

[ghaff]

My guess is that it's some useless mode like microwave ovens have a zillion of but which are perfectly straightforward to simulate with the right temp/power and time settings.