Too bad iOS makes it very hard to disable bluetooth. Android was swipe+click, iOS it's swipe, two long presses, two clicks. Or you can type it, but that's obviously more clicks (though possibly faster).
I used to make the effort when I switched from Android, but I already gave up...
It makes sense for most people. When they want to turn those off they want to either disconnect from WiFi or disconnect from Bluetooth audio, and they don’t expect things like airdrop or their Apple Watch to stop working when they turn them off.
To be fair, the default behavior does exactly what I want: Disconnect me from a broken Wi-Fi network/Bluetooth headphone/speaker implementation that is hijacking my audio output, without breaking "Find My", Airdrop or Wi-Fi geolocation.
AirPods can stay connected, which is maybe unfair towards third-party vendors, but they also don't insist on connecting to all paired devices at once and usually pick the two wrong ones and steal audio from whoever in my home is using that device at the moment.
Annoyingly so it doesn't even always open on the expected screen, e.g. when opening "Wifi settings" from the network selection you might end up in notifications if it was the last screen you used. Not a consistent bug.
I’m trying this now and can’t figure this out. I’ve been trying for months now.
I’m adding a new action, I search toggle and Bluetooth and I’m not getting any actions to set Bluetooth. What am I doing wrong?
Edit:
Scratch that! I figured it out!
Realised I wanted a way to connect to a Bluetooth device (my flaky headphones don’t always connect, pain to dig into the settings every time)
The toggle in control centre does not disable Bluetooth. It disconnects Bluetooth until tomorrow. It even says that in control centre when you tap on the toggle.
Notice the difference in color when you do that. As the other comment pointed out, it only disconnects devices. Apple makes it hard for their users to disable bluetooth (or gps) so features like airtag work well.
You are sacrificing your battery life (and I guess privacy and security) for the ecosystem to work.
Google won't let you use GPS for maps without also turning on wifi for similar reasons I guess. It does make it more accurate but shouldn't be required.
Wasn’t there this thing that Google collected a list of SSIDs using their Google Maps cars, and that gave them “good enough” geolocation using passive WiFi scanning, which was much less battery intensive and faster than GPS?
I used to make the effort when I switched from Android, but I already gave up...