Nope, not quite, Harvey.

Alan, Airplane mode does what you are supposed to do with cellular phones when on a plane.  It turns off all communications with the outside world--cellular, wireless, bluetooth in one fell swoop.  

If you want to preserve battery life and know you don't want to receive calls or text messages, just enable airplane mode.  
You can separately turn wireless (wifi) or bluetooth on and off to preserve battery life but leave your cellular connection on for receiving phone calls and text messages.

If you don't have unlimited data, or if you need to download large amounts of data, then you'll want to enable wireless.  Wireless will take priority over cellular for downloading data, updating your IOS or downloading apps.

Steve, K8SP
----- Original Message ----- 
From: Harvey Heagy 
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Sent: Sunday, May 24, 2015 12:00 PM
Subject: Re: I Phone 6 Plus question


I think it enables you to use the phone while on an airplane for texting and
possibly game playing, but not for phone calls.
Harvey

-----Original Message-----
From: For blind ham radio operators [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
On Behalf Of Alan R. Downing
Sent: Sunday, May 24, 2015 10:34 AM
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Subject: I Phone 6 Plus question

Can anyone tell me what the "airplane" toggle does?  It appears to default
to off.

 

Alan - N7MIT

 

 

 

 

Alan R. Downing

Phoenix, AZ