Thanks. That’s really weird that it would connect automatically without me asking. The reason I didn’t want my phone connected was I don’t really trust strange wifi networks for sensitive internet usage so I wanted to keep my phone on cellular data for that. I think automatic connection should be an opt-in thing, but as it is, even opting out is not straightforward enough. I did your suggestion and so far so good. Also just leaving wifi off on my phone works, but shouldn’t have to do that.
Disabling wifi on your phone is the best answer. The problem with having opt-in and opt-out for literally everything is the preferences would look like a Boeing's dashboard. They kind of have to take an educated guess at what most people want.
I spoke too soon, my phone reconnected automatically. But it’s because I thought if I forgot the network on my phone then reconnected my iPad, it would stay forgotten on my phone. But that’s not the case, and probably not what you meant. I think you meant that was the way to forget the network on all my devices, which isn’t really what I wanted. I’d like my iPad to stay connected. So it looks like the only way is to turn off wifi on my phone.
Not every conceivable setting should be in the Settings app of course, but since Settings is probably the most utilitarian of apps, it doesn’t really need to be and really shouldn’t be overly minimalistic, as it needs to contain controls for any setting that a decent number of users might want to change. I think being able to change whether all your devices are forced to connect to a new network because one of your devices is connected is something a lot of people might want.
Ah forgot about that! That’s a better solution than turning off wifi completely. But still wish I could disable this behavior across the board.
I use either device for sensitive info when I’m on a trusted wifi network, but when using an untrusted wifi network, I keep one device on wifi (the iPad since it’s wifi only) then use cellular data with my other device for sensitive info.
