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> When a phone has wifi searching enabled, it is constantly sending out signals to attempt to connect to a network.

This is one thing with iPhone that infuriates me. Even if you "turn off" the WiFi it will always turn back on after a short time and connect to known networks. or if I change to another location with a known network it will automatically connect to it after turning the WiFi back on. For the life of me I can't find a way to keep it off consistently.

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I created custom shortcuts for actually turning off Bluetooth and Wifi, and use those exclusively instead of the dark pattern buttons in control center.

You can also turn them off in Settings. Also anytime a macOS or iOS update is applied, Apple turns back on Bluetooth even if it was turned off.

They want you to leave them on so their Find My network can function, regardless of what the user wants.

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