the truth behind airplane mode

taha back for his annual video

“I look like this, and that means being your best behavior when you get on a flight” 💀

My first thought was "of course I need that, how else do I play mobile games?"

The main reason you should turn on airplane mode is that once you're above 10,000ft, you'll have effectively zero signal anyway, and your phone will start busting its ass looking for one which drains the battery faster than usual.

As cabin crew, it really doesn't make a difference, we tell people to put planes on airplane mode mostly so people pay more attention to PA's and our instructions, also it saves your phone battery. I've had a couple of times where I've left airplane mode off accidentally and it drains battery SO fast

See what I was always told was that leaving airplane mode off will just absolutely kill your battery because your phone is using so much electricity just screaming for a tower

Level 2 tech support agent at a mobile carrier here. It is still a really good tool for trying to re-establish the best connection to a nearby tower without powering your phone off and on entirely if you're in a weaker coverage area, and it's also great for testing technologies such as Wi-Fi Calling by making sure those calls aren't actually going over the cellular network. There's a few other cases too, such as when we update settings on your phone line internally and need you to force a reconnect that way to see if it corrected the issue. Troubleshooting could absolutely still be done without it, but having this setting on phones does make things quite a bit easier.

If you look at the current FAA regulation about airplane mode it basically says “enforce this because the FCC said to.” It has absolutely nothing to do with airplane safety and is completely because the FCC is worried about the impact on the cell network

the most wild thing about this video is that at some point a small simple calculator was $345. and this isn't even accounting for inflation. i wonder how much those $345 would be today

Ex Flight Attendant here and let me tell you this even the crew (pilots included) have forgotten to put their devices on Flight/Airplane mode ! its NOT a big deal with modern aircraft and modern devices. The issue with Aviation is that new rules and regulations can be put into place very fast but they take MUCH longer to be undone even if technology has moved on. The same is true about LAGS (Liquid Aerosols and Gels) and the restrictions around these post 9/11 there have been scanners that are able to reliably and accurately identify dangerous substances in liquids for years but the rules are only changing now (and it will be very slow to be widely deployed).

I was just gonna shout out the animation in the video but then I see Sabrina’s name in the credits?? So yeah shoutout for the great animation but also pls rest, you’re a workaholic

We truly need airplane mode so that we can throw our phone and watch it fly

would you believe me if I told you that when taha said "i definetely put my phone on airplane mode cause I look like this" my first thought was "a nerd! of course you turn on airplane mode" ?

Taha flipping between router (router) and router (rooter) during the Wifi section is triggering a problem I didn't know I had.

"clean my mac is safe, I promise" yeah, they have a really sketchy history and it's wild that they have to reassure people now

12:30am is my favourite upload time for uk viewers

Not to mention roaming uses a TON of battery and so it would probably be a bad idea to connect to conventional cellular from the air anyway. Also, I'm pretty sure (but not certain) that cell towers don't try to broadcast/recieve upwards because that would be a waste of power and money, so there's no guarantee of it working, especially at FL350.

"And I look like this, so I have to be on my best behaviour" Nah thats wild

Another good thing about airplane mode..roaming fees are $25 a hit. Airplanes sometimes fly over other countries and if you are not expecting roaming charges, you will not be prepared for them. It is like Canadians in Niagara Falls. The phones can connect with American towers instead and next thing you know, you have a $900 cellphone bill

Nobody and I can't stretch this enough noooooobody really needs Cleanmymac.