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Disconnecting Nearby Wi-Fi Until Tomorrow On iPhone

iPhone devices receive the update to iOS 11.2. In the information it is declared about Apple Pay Cash to send, request and receive, improvement of stability and bugs fixes. One of the first things you will surely notice is that you cannot turn off Wi-Fi completely anymore. Tap on the Wi-Fi toggle in the Control Center and you will see the notification “Disconnecting Nearby Wi-Fi Until Tomorrow“:

When you tap the toggle for the first time after you installed the update you will see “Disconnecting Nearby Wi-Fi Until Tomorrow. The current Wi-Fi network and others nearby will be disconnected until tomorrow. Wi-Fi will continue to be available for AirDrop, Personal Hotspot, and location accuracy.”

The same goes to for Bluetooth. The module stays available for Apple Watch, Apple Pencil, Personal Hotspot, and Handoff: What Does This Mean?

If you see Disconnecting Nearby Wi-Fi Until Tomorrow (or Disconnecting Bluetooth Devices Until Tomorrow ) means that your Wi-Fi (or Bluetooth respectively) module will be turned off until 5:00 next morning local time. Besides that, you should be aware that wireless modules will be turned on again sooner if you reboot your device or move to another timezone.

How to Completely Turn Off Wi-Fi and Bluetooth on iPhone Running iOS of the Latest Version

If you wish to turn your WiFi and Bluetooth toggles and make them stay transparent instead of white color you need to turn off the modules using the Settings app:

Open Settings:
Go to Wi-Fi.
Turn it off using the toggle:
Go to Bluetooth and do the same. Ultimately you should see this in the Settings:

Actually, I don’t know for sure if the corresponding modules really switch off but the toggles will look like they did in iOS before 11.1 and earlier versions:

That’s all I know about this feature.

Adam Swift

Adam is a real tech maniac. He likes to spend time testing phones, tablets, laptops, as well as any other technical devices, and write practical manuals on their functions. He often sleeps all day, but always works at night. Adam bought his first computer in 1999, being an absolute beginner who never held a computer mouse in his hands. He began to study Windows, constantly experimented and often crashed the operating system. But six months later, he was able to reinstall Windows 98 from a scratch on his own, fix almost any software problem on a PC, he also did hardware upgrades and realized that computers, operating systems and programs are now his biggest passion. In addition, Adam has always been a big lover of phones. With the advent of smartphones with Android OS, he began to pick at them much more than in computers. Now Adam loves to study privacy issues in instant messengers, blocking unwanted calls and other nuances related to privacy and security on the network. You can follow him on Twitter: https://twitter.com/tunecomp

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