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On Apple's devices, you cannot disable that BLE broadcast. The same is true on the Pixel 8: https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/8/24123909/google-pixel-8-pro-offlin
by md_ 2y ago
On Apple's devices, you cannot disable that BLE broadcast. The same is true on the Pixel 8: https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/8/24123909/google-pixel-8-pro-offline-dead-battery-location-finding https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/8/24123909/google-pixel-8-pr.... That's the whole point of this design, and fundamentally different than just having some app ping a server once in a while so long as it has network access.
- extraduder_ire 2y agoEven if you turn on airplane mode on the device?
- md_ 2y agoBeats me. I can't find anything definitive on this. Since Apple devices continue to broadcast Find My signals even when powered off (as long as they have a little bit of battery left), I assume they continue to do so in airplane mode. It wouldn't do a lot of good if thieves could just turn off Bluetooth, right?
- idle_zealot 2y agoAirplane mode doesn't turn Bluetooth or Wifi off at all on recent OS versions of Android or iOS.
- master-lincoln 2y agoreally? Why did they even leave the feature in then?
- joseda-hg 2y agoIt turns off celular which is the main problem (Wifi is common enough in modern airplanes so I have to assume the interference risk is low, same for Bluetooth)
- grotorea 2y agoReally? What's airplane mode even for then?
- idle_zealot 2y agoIt disables cell data and calling.
- ranguna 2y agoWow that's a serious privacy concern
- md_ 2y agoMaybe? I dunno. The design of this is pretty clever: https://www.wired.com/story/apple-find-my-cryptography-bluetooth/ https://www.wired.com/story/apple-find-my-cryptography-bluet.... I presume somewhere you can turn this off for real, but the defaults seem sensible to me.