It will be there forever since it got stuck as a "offline" button. People go offline for many reasons and they look for a "plane" icon.
Since when did you see/use a diskette or a dot matrix printer? You use their icons.
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To be fair, printers today come in all shapes and sizes and don't necessarily look that different from the icons I see.
I use it ho properly disconnect from mobile network, if something not working with it on iPhone, disabling and enable mobile network did not do the trick, don’t know exactly why.
I use it ho properly disconnect from mobile network, if something not working with it on iPhone, disabling and enable mobile network did not do the trick, don’t know exactly why.
Because the cellular tower icon disables mobile data, but not the radios. You can tell because when you turn it off you’ll still see bars (if, you know, the radio is working).
Airplane mode on iOS disables cellular radios, but leaves WiFi and Bluetooth on. Your phone will sit there blazing (figuratively) as bright as the sun in its cellular radio spectrums trying to hit a tower when you’re 35,000 feet up, eating up your battery and potentially fucking with cell towers as you fly overhead, where WiFi and Bluetooth won’t. It also prevents potential interference from the 2G radio with the ILS the plane uses for landing (as I saw elsewhere from a pilot).
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The real reason to enable airplane mode is to avoid insane in plane roaming fees, I think Ethihad just did this to me!
They have to pay ManU player salaries somehow..
Back in the day airlines would charge you a premium to call from the plane.
300+ cellphones suddenly hogging an antenna as they roam by may be inconvenient for the carrier. Can you actully get reception up so high even?
If cellphones really did interfere with airplanes, there would've been a lot of crashes because of it, there's always a smart ass.
Every once in a while during a flight, I'll get an email or a text gets through after a brief connection with a tower. That or my time zone will update based on the tower is connected to.
Now the charge you a premium for wifi.
I’ve definitely gotten text messages at 35k feet on plenty of different occasions. Not a single issue with any systems on the plane from it.
The people who can decide whether to throw you off the plane are telling you that you have to put it in airplane mode. Seems fucked up that they would be basing that on a myth, but regardless, I want to stay on the plane.
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