This is a huge security, privacy and battery-drain nightmare.
Unassociated Wi-Fi chips constantly broadcast their MAC addresses allowing customer targeting and broadcast their previously associated SSIDs, allowing tracking of people when combined with SSID location databases like SkyHook.
Unassociated Bluetooth is also a privacy and security attack surface.
Finally, it's going to drain the already undersized iPhone batteries even more by not putting chips into powersave modes.
Apple smh fail, fail and fail... they really jumped the shark on this one. I hope this changes but I'll be skipping iOS updates for now and will skip future iPhones if this doesn't change, in addition to already skipping future MacBook Pros because of their horrendous unrepairability and unupgradability.
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Unassociated Bluetooth is also a privacy and security attack surface.
Finally, it's going to drain the already undersized iPhone batteries even more by not putting chips into powersave modes.
Apple smh fail, fail and fail... they really jumped the shark on this one. I hope this changes but I'll be skipping iOS updates for now and will skip future iPhones if this doesn't change, in addition to already skipping future MacBook Pros because of their horrendous unrepairability and unupgradability.