It is informative, but how often does the average person read this kind of information? Especially when they are set on doing something simple, such as turning off Bluetooth. What if you never use the settings menu, and only turn it off from the notification drawer? They never see that information. Not to mention that it’s such a small option (even though it’s a big paragraph) that they make it seem like they don’t want the user to disable it completely.
What they should do, is when the user disables Bluetooth the first time (anywhere on the phone), a pop up is at least shown to instruct the user that it is still scanning in the background. That way the user is informed. OR, hear me out, have background scanning disabled by default and prompt the user to enable it the first time they disable Bluetooth.
Honestly this is probably for the average user… Because Google doesn’t want to receive calls that XYZ (that uses Bluetooth) is broken from those that are tech illiterate in the general public and accidentally turned Bluetooth off.
My grandpa as an example would also not read your pop-up.
The general public is not concerned with disabling Bluetooth for more than a power saving or troubleshooting step… And even then, it’s going to be an accident more than a choice for a lot of people.
I think the primary motivation for this change is to keep bluetooth active on significant portion of android users so google’s upcoming “find my” network can take off. They don’t want people to permanently turn off bluetooth from the drawer because there is a chance that they forgot about it and won’t turn it on again, which is bad for their upcoming network. Adding popups to inform the users will increase the chance of users deciding to permanently deactivating bluetooth.
That might be a partial motivation for sure … but Bluetooth is used for so much these days (there’s not even a headphone jack, Bluetooth speakers are everywhere, etc) I have a hard time believing any significant portion of the general public is turning off Bluetooth for an extended period intentionally to begin with.
Let alone enough that it would be enough people to be a concern regarding their tracking network taking off.
How would you even call Google? The people that these hypothetical tech illiterate people are likely calling are their younger family members or their cellular provider. I doubt they even know that Google runs Android.
Google is not unreachable and they might not know that Google runs Android, but if they have a Google Pixel phone well, they could very well end up contacting Google for help.
The UI strings make it pretty clear this is an option the user can choose.
It is informative, but how often does the average person read this kind of information? Especially when they are set on doing something simple, such as turning off Bluetooth. What if you never use the settings menu, and only turn it off from the notification drawer? They never see that information. Not to mention that it’s such a small option (even though it’s a big paragraph) that they make it seem like they don’t want the user to disable it completely.
What they should do, is when the user disables Bluetooth the first time (anywhere on the phone), a pop up is at least shown to instruct the user that it is still scanning in the background. That way the user is informed. OR, hear me out, have background scanning disabled by default and prompt the user to enable it the first time they disable Bluetooth.
Honestly this is probably for the average user… Because Google doesn’t want to receive calls that XYZ (that uses Bluetooth) is broken from those that are tech illiterate in the general public and accidentally turned Bluetooth off.
My grandpa as an example would also not read your pop-up.
The general public is not concerned with disabling Bluetooth for more than a power saving or troubleshooting step… And even then, it’s going to be an accident more than a choice for a lot of people.
I think the primary motivation for this change is to keep bluetooth active on significant portion of android users so google’s upcoming “find my” network can take off. They don’t want people to permanently turn off bluetooth from the drawer because there is a chance that they forgot about it and won’t turn it on again, which is bad for their upcoming network. Adding popups to inform the users will increase the chance of users deciding to permanently deactivating bluetooth.
That might be a partial motivation for sure … but Bluetooth is used for so much these days (there’s not even a headphone jack, Bluetooth speakers are everywhere, etc) I have a hard time believing any significant portion of the general public is turning off Bluetooth for an extended period intentionally to begin with.
Let alone enough that it would be enough people to be a concern regarding their tracking network taking off.
How would you even call Google? The people that these hypothetical tech illiterate people are likely calling are their younger family members or their cellular provider. I doubt they even know that Google runs Android.
https://about.google/contact-google/
https://support.google.com/pixelphone/gethelp?sjid=16078898078062564317-NC
Google is not unreachable and they might not know that Google runs Android, but if they have a Google Pixel phone well, they could very well end up contacting Google for help.