Flight mode over night issue

The Black Oil · 02-11-2020 09:54AM #1

I've a 6s running iOS 14.1. I put it into flight mode at about 10pm. Often when the alarm goes off the wifi seems to either come on or has been on which I don't want first thing. It starts bringing in new emails too. Sometimes lose about 10% of battery.

Occasionally, I turn flight mode, the alarm goes off and the battery is 100%, bu that's rare. I'm not sure if the phone is detecting that I'm picking it up whilst I look at the alarm and therefore turning wifi on, or simply turning it on by itself over night. I'm definitely not leaving wifi on with flight mode...it's confusing.

I've had this niggle since iOS 13 at least.

Gregor Samsa · 02-11-2020 10:19AM

Are you setting flight mode in Control Centre, or in Settings?

If you’re doing it in Control Centre, those settings are only temporary. WiFi automatically comes back on under various circumstances, including at 5am. Which would explain why your WiFi is back on in the morning.

https://support.apple.com/en-ie/HT208086

Settings in the Settings app are permanent until you set them to something else.

Gregor Samsa · 02-11-2020 11:12AM

If you're turning off WiFi so you're not disturbed by notifications overnight, you could use "Do Not Disturb" in Settings: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204321

You can set an automatic schedule for it to come on and go off at different times, and allow calls from specific numbers that you might want to be able to contact you in an emergency. Your emails and other messages will still come in, just silently while Do Not Disturb is on. If you're doing it to save battery, it won't help, though.

ED E · 06-11-2020 09:31AM

Gregor Samsa wrote: »

If you’re doing it in Control Centre, those settings are only temporary.

Cupertino: Users are idiots who dont know what they want.

rizzee · 06-11-2020 10:14AM

I've just got back to iOS recently so a simple question (sorry!): when I toggle Wi-Fi / BT in the Control Centre and it says it will come back on the next day, does this mean strictly at midnight?

I tend to leave the phone in airplane mode, DND on, and Battery Low mode overnight weekdays (through the quick controls/control centre), just so the alarms will go off in the morning and to conserve power when not charging overnight.

Gregor Samsa · 06-11-2020 10:28AM

rizzee wrote: »

I've just got back to iOS recently so a simple question (sorry!): when I toggle Wi-Fi / BT in the Control Centre and it says it will come back on the next day, does this mean strictly at midnight?

No, the come back on at 5 AM local time the following day

https://support.apple.com/en-ie/HT208086

rizzee · 06-11-2020 10:30AM

Gregor Samsa wrote: »

No, the come back on at 5 AM local time the following day

https://support.apple.com/en-ie/HT208086

Very helpful, thank you!

Eire Go Brach · 06-11-2020 01:10PM

You say you have a 6s could It be your battery?
Just something to add. I run a shortcut for when I go to bed that runs all these plus more. Might be so time to try. You can also set sleep up to turn on DND at a certain time.

The Black Oil · 08-11-2020 11:59AM

Gregor Samsa wrote: »

Are you setting flight mode in Control Centre, or in Settings?

If you’re doing it in Control Centre, those settings are only temporary. WiFi automatically comes back on under various circumstances, including at 5am. Which would explain why your WiFi is back on in the morning.

https://support.apple.com/en-ie/HT208086

Settings in the Settings app are permanent until you set them to something else.

Historically, Control Centre from the home screen, yeah. When I go to Settings - Settings - Control Centre I don't see anything there to play around with the WiFi.

Eire Go Brach wrote: »

You say you have a 6s could It be your battery?
Just something to add. I run a shortcut for when I go to bed that runs all these plus more. Might be so time to try. You can also set sleep up to turn on DND at a certain time.

Don't think so, I hope not. I had a 5s before and the battery lasted about 2 years, iirc. This is about 18 month olds.

I'm trying DND 10pm-7am.

I've gotten out of the habit of looking at my phones first thing in the morning, try to leave them in flight mode until I've done a few body stretches and make porridge. Going well, so far.

Gregor Samsa · 08-11-2020 12:25PM

The Black Oil wrote: »

Historically, Control Centre from the home screen, yeah. When I go to Settings - Settings - Control Centre I don't see anything there to play around with the WiFi.

Just Settings > WiFi is the one that will permanently disable Wi-Fi until you choose to turn it back in again. Same goes for Airplane Mode, Bluetooth and Mobile Data. The toggles for all of these in Control Centre are temporary, the main ones accessible from the Settings screen are permanent.

Flight mode over night issue

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