What is airplane mode on iPhone? Airplane mode is a setting that can be found on your iPhone and other portable devices that are capable of transmitting radio waves. By turning on airplane mode, you will turn off cellular network, Wi-Fi, and BlueTooth on your iPhone.

What can't and can you do when you turn on airplane mode on iphone

When you turn on airplane mode on your iPhone, you will disable cellular network, Wi-Fi and BlueTooth, which means:

  • 1. You can't make any phone call or receive phone calls from others.
  • 2. You can't text other people or receive any text from other people.
  • 3. You can't use cellular data.

But Wi-Fi and BlueTooth can be used after you turn on airplane mode on iPhone. While in airplane mode, you can still turn on Wi-Fi and BlueTooth. What you can't really use is cellular network.

After knowing the things we can and can't do when we turn on airplane mode on iPhone, we can use it to do something for us other than turning it on when we are asked to during a flight.

1. Turn on airplane mode when you don't want to be disturbed.

Airplane mode is a great way to get away from work and have some quality time with friends and family. Once you turn it on, you won't be disturbed by phone calls from work. It's nice to have a little alone time to spend with family or yourself once in a while. So when you feel like it, turn on airplane mode and get your mind off work for a while. While you would miss calls after turning on iPhone airplane mode, you will still receive messages sent to you after you turn airplane mode off.

2. Turn on airplane mode to save battery life.

When your iPhone is working, it's constantly communicating with cell towers for data connection, which slowly consumes battery life. If you turn on airplane mode iPhone will stop searching for signals and communicating with cell towers. If your iPhone's battery is dying and you need to make an important phone call later, you can turn on airplane mode for a while to save battery for the call.

3. Turn on airplane mode to prevent your kids from calling someone when playing with your phone.

A lot of parents will allow their kids to play games or watch videos on their iPhone. But kids might mess around with your phone and it's no surprise that they would accidentally call someone on your contacts list. To prevent such an embarrassing thing from happening, all you need to do is turn on airplane mode.

How to turn on iPhone airplane mode

On iPhone airplane mode can be easily turned on as iOS has a control center which contains a lot of shortcut keys of certain features.

Here's how to turn on iPhone airplane mode.

#1. Turn on iPhone airplane mode on Control Center

Swipe up from the bottom of the screen to open the Control Center, And you should see the airplane mode icon. Click on it to activate airplane mode and you should see an airplane mode icon in the upper left-hand corner of the screen.

#2. Turn on iPhone airplane mode in Settings

You can also turn on the iPhone airplane mode in Settings. Just open iPhone's Settings app and you should see the Airplane Mode option at the top. Tap on it to activate iPhone airplane mode and you would see the airplane mode icon in the upper left corner.

What is airplane mode on iPhone? It's a convenient feature that blocks your connection to the cellular network, make good use of it and it could be pretty helpful.