Do you always think about what Airplane Mode does? Smartphones, mobile phones, laptops, and other devices come with Airplane Mode or Airline Flight Mode. You usually put your system in Airplane mode when you want to save your battery, make your system silent, Bluetooth off, and a lot of other stuff.

What is Airplane Mode?

When you open airplane mode on your smartphones, laptop, and similar devices. When you activate the airplane mode of your system, it stops all signal transmission from your devices.

We called it airplane mode because many airlines prohibit using smartphones or any wireless device on their aircraft because it interferes with the radio equipment in planes.

What is Airplane Mode and What does airplane mode do?

Airplane mode disables all wireless functions of your phone or laptop like:

• Cellular connections: You can’t able to do calls, send text messages or use mobile data to access the internet.
• Wi-Fi: Your wi-fi gets disconnected and you can’t manage to connect with new ones.
• Bluetooth: Your device’s Bluetooth get disconnected, which help you to get a connection with headphone, Watches, and many more devices.

What are the uses of Airplane Mode?

Save power supply life: Airplane mode enhance the battery life of your device, you get a long battery time to use your mobile in which you can take snap images, read documents, and do other tasks on your device which is bar better than totally switching off your smartphone.

Increase Charging: In Airplane mode, you can do rare things. All cellular connections, wi-fi, Bluetooth, and Gps get stopped which takes a very high amount of battery from your Phone while in airplane mode your battery doesn’t get loaded too much, hence charging faster.

Avoid distraction: Smartphone is very distractive things every minute there is a pop-up of Email, cell phone, SMS, Snapchat, Whatsapp group, and a lot of other things. There are many ways to deal with a lot of ways to deal with these issues, one of the ways is by turning the Airplane mode ON and it gives you huge advantages.

Make it child-friendly: If any child wants to play a game on your smartphone or laptop just turn on flight mode and handle it over. This will prevent him to get redirected or distracted to some suspicious sites on the internet through ads.

Make your system files secure because there is no more connection with the outer world, if a child sends any document, or images to anyone by mistake but it won’t until you turn off airplane mode.

Troubleshooting: If you face any issue with cellular connections or Wi-Fi then just toggle the airplane mode On and turn it back off again. It fixed your connectivity issue.

How to turn Airplane Mode ‘ON’ on Android?

Method 1: It is a quick way to turn on airplane mode on your android smartphone.

Step 1: Swipe the notification bar downwards.

Step 2: Now you can see the airplane icon.

Step 3: Tap on the airplane icon to enable it.

Step 4: Now you can see your Wi-Fi, Bluetooth gets OFF, and your cellular data get disconnected.

Method 2: By using Setting option

Step 1: Go to the settings option on your mobile.

Step 2: Now you can see the Airplane option or select connections/wireless & network.

Step 3: Now toggle or tap on the airplane option to enable it.

After enabling your data network, Wi-Fi, and other featured get off.

How to turn on Airplane Mode in iOS?

Method 1: Control Center

Step 1: Swap upward from the bottom of your screen.

Step 2: Now you can see the airplane icon, tap on it.

Method 2: Setting Menu

Step 1: Go to the settings option on your iPhone or iPad.

Step 2: As you enter settings, you can see the Airplane mode option right at the beginning.

How to open Airplane mode in Windows?

Method 1: Using Settings

Step 1: Go to settings, and click on Network & Internet section.

Step 2: Now you can see the Airplane mode option.

Step 3: Swipe the toggle to enable or disable the airplane mode option.

Method 2: Quick way

Step 1: You can see a lot of icons on the bottom-right of your window screen.

Step 2: Click on the world icon which also helps to connect with wi-fi.

Step 3: Now as it gets opened at the bottom you can see the “Airplane mode” option click on it to enable it.

Diable:

Step 1: In the bottom-right, you can see the airplane icon click on it and press the airplane mode button.

Step 2: Your airplane mode gets disabled.

How to turn Airplane Mode in Mac?

Mac doesn’t come with an inbuilt feature of Airplane Mode.

Step 1: Click on the System Preference option, then select the Network option under Internet & Wireless settings, on clicking you will come across a Network windows pop-up.

Step 2: Now, click on Location, a drop-down box will appear. Click on the plus sign (+) to edit and add a new location.

Step 3: Enter the name as ‘Airplane Mode‘ and click on Done to save.

Step 4: Choose the ‘Airplane Mode‘ option under location and click on each network in the list at the left of the window.

How to enable Wi-Fi and Bluetooth in Airplane Mode?

Nowadays, Airplanes also offer in-flight Wi-Fi when above 10,000 feet. As we click on the Airplane icon, our Airplane mode gets on so, you can re-enable Wi-Fi even after turning on Airplane mode but still, other radio signals are closed.

Conclusion

I hope now you know why airplane mode is available in your system as an inbuilt feature. If you know any other benefits of airplane mode then let us know in a comment section, and how often you use airplane mode and why?

FAQs on Airplane Mode

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