Nikynoo
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Thank you so much and also @Diddian . So, what point were the prosecution trying to make with the airplane mode?When my phone is on Airplane mode (which it is, almost all the time), it still has wifi. It still has GPS. And when my phone has no cellular, it still has GPS whether on airplane mode or not. This is true of my current iPhone and it was true of my last one as well.
There would be no way to use wifi on an airplane if it were true that it didn't allow wifi. And there would be no way for me to use maps when I'm in the mountains if it didn't use GPS separately.
GPS is completely separate from Airplane Mode and is not turned off by Airplane Mode. There are two other settings (maybe three) that you have to use to turn off GPS availability, and even then, it's not clear that the little blue dot on Google maps won't keep moving (a bit less smoothly) with those switches turned on.
There have been several cases here in California where phones that were on Airplane Mode and had location services off...still had Google tracking them as they committed crimes and that has led to bodies.
What exactly are people thinking that LE showed about Barry's movements around the backyard if he had it on airplane mode? The phone doesn't look like it went inside the house (much)...or we haven't been shown that if it did. So maybe Barry left his phone in one place once he was done shooting chipmunks.
ETA: Just put my phone in Airplane mode. I am still hooked up by bluetooth to my headphones, I still have wifi. Google maps is still accurately placing me. FindMyPhone still works (I could disable that separately) and the only thing that isn't working is...cellular.