When you turn them off, they’re not actually off. This way stuff like emergency calls and alarms can go through. I miss old phones where you could just pop off the battery.
This is true. Apple’s excuse for it is that it’s used for FindMy and locking down a stolen device. So the Bluetooth and GPS and/or cellular radio still function with the device “off”.
When you turn them off, they’re not actually off. This way stuff like emergency calls and alarms can go through. I miss old phones where you could just pop off the battery.
Do you have actual source for this information? I couldn’t find anything suggesting this.
This is true. Apple’s excuse for it is that it’s used for FindMy and locking down a stolen device. So the Bluetooth and GPS and/or cellular radio still function with the device “off”.
https://www.macrumors.com/guide/ios-15-find-my/
You can turn those off when powering the phone down.
Luckily, draining an iphones battery is really easy.
Edit: though battery depleted devices can still be tracked for hours.