The image below is when Airplane Mode is turned off.
In the image below, the screenshot on top shows Airplane Mode on. You will know Airplane Mode is turned off when the airplane icon disappears from your taskbar. If your program is running correctly when you turn on Airplane Mode, you will receive a notification that your automation is running (see photo below), and Airplane Mode will turn off. Exit out of Shortcuts and turn on Airplane Mode. Let’s test it to make sure it is functioning correctly. Step 9: Click on Next at the top right corner, and we have finished creating our new Automation. Your screen should look like this before you move on to the next step.
We are taken to a new screen that describes all the steps that are taken. Step 8: Click ‘Next’ to save your new Automation. It should read like this “Turn Airplane Mode Off”. Click on the word “On” to toggle it to “Off”. Step 7: You will be taken back to the Actions tab, which is the “script” of your Automation. Step 6: Click on Set Airplane Mode to see this screen. There are many combinations and programs you can run from here, and for this purpose we will type Airplane in the Search Bar. Step 5: Click on Add Action to open the Search window. This will turn your Automation on when Airplane Mode is activated. Step 3: Click ‘Create Personal Automation’ and scroll down to Airplane Mode. Step 2: Open the “Shortcuts” App, and click on the “Automation” button in the bottom middle of the screen.
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If you’ve removed it, you can download it again. Once the aircraft is sufficiently high no ground based cell tower can receive any signal, so this prohibition mid-flight is effectively meaningless.Step 1: Open the Shortcuts app on your iPhone. There was no change to the rule on cellphone voice communication, which remained prohibited. An old phone's "airplane mode" may be too restrictive.
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Testing determined that wifi and bluetooth did not cause sufficient interference with ground based nav signals, so that prohibition was relaxed. What was considered "airplane mode" by the FAA changed in 2013. The airline gets its rules from the FAA/EASA. Regardless of any particular device the airline sets rules to ensure that no device:ġ) Interferes with navigation signals required by the aircraft, particularly at landingĢ) Confuses cellphone towers on the ground which expect radio signals in roughly a planar orientation near the ground What it does may not match the regulation in any particular geography as rules vary. You can choose to turn it off anytime in violation of the rules, so there is no difference there. "Airplane mode" is a convenience feature provided by the phone manufacturer. What is the point of disabling Bluetooth and WLAN if you're not prohibited from turning them on again? What is the point of even having airplane mode on devices that don't support mobile data in the first place? It doesn't actually do anything (but is presumably still required). At that point, airplane mode is just a pretty little icon that appears in your device's status bar. In most cases, you can turn both antennas back on after enabling airplane mode. the Nintendo Switch, most smart watches, and probably a truckload of other non-phone devices). I own multiple devices which only have Bluetooth and/or WLAN antennas (e.g. The obvious interpretation is that you can do whatever you want as long as your device is in airplane mode ("They said to put everything in airplane mode, and I did, so I complied with their instructions."). At the same time, most airlines clearly want you to turn on WLAN so that they can sell you internet access. "WLAN is fine, but keep Bluetooth off" or similar). During the safety briefing of every flight I remember in the recent past, they would say something along the lines of "You can use electronic devices as long as they're in airplane mode," or very rarely, "You need to switch your electronic devices completely off until we hit 10k feet, and then use them in airplane mode." But they don't tell you anything more specific in the safety briefing or on the information card (e.g. Asking the airline, as suggested in this answer, is useless. However, I can turn WLAN and Bluetooth back on again without disabling airplane mode. In particular, it disables mobile data (4G/LTE, or whatever it has roamed onto), WLAN (WiFi), and Bluetooth. On my (Android) phone, enabling airplane mode automatically disables all wireless antennas except for GPS and NFC (I assume the latter is either passive or way too low power for anyone to care about).