There are many reasons why you might need to turn off your iPhone, but the process varies depending on which model you have. Here we explain how to turn off any of the iPhone models What we currently have on the market.
Chances are you’d rather keep your phone on all day, iPhones don’t turn off. But sometimes we want to disconnect completely, or keep a safe battery percentage, because we don’t have any other way to do it, and although it’s a bit of a drastic method, it partly works.
Sometimes even the simple fact of turning off and on our iPhone solves some problem that we could be suffering, such as slow operation, frozen, excessive temperature or anything else.
Turning off a phone may sound easy and self-explanatory, but there are different ways to do it, depending on the iPhone model you have and the version of iOS the device is running. In addition, there are many types of users, with more or less knowledge of the devices of the boys from Cupertino.
iPhone beginners find in this device a very aerodynamic design, even more so in the iPhones released in recent years, since the designs that Apple continues to make are increasingly minimalist.
New devices don’t have buttons
Like many recent Android models, in the iPhone its users will not find many buttonsmost are now replaced with Face ID recognition and swipe gestures, and the existing buttons tend to have multiple usability options.
That means that new users with an iPhone model have many questions, and usually a common question: How do you turn off the iPhone if it doesn’t have a power button?
Locking our new iPhone and turning off the screen temporarily is very easy, it is an almost automated process by its users, but turning off the iPhone completely requires a little more effort, even more if you have never had an iPhone. In today’s article, I bring you this super simple tutorial, in which I will show you how to do it according to the iPhone model you have.
How to turn off new iPhone models
By newer iPhones, I mean any iPhone that doesn’t have a home button. Remember that the guys from Cupertino replaced said button several years ago with easy recognition, FACE ID. In fact, they began the change with the iPhone X, the device that brought about a change in the design of Apple mobile devices, and continues today with the iPhone 14.
Since current iPhone users are much more likely to own one of these Apple phones, whether they’re buying new, used, or refurbished iPhones, here are the steps to take.
It doesn’t matter what operating system you have on the iPhone you want to turn off, the method does not change depending on the iOS. Still, as always, we recommend updating your iPhone to the latest version of the operating system available, because it can always fix some problems, which we users are not aware of.
To turn off your iPhone follow these steps
- Hold your iPhone well so you can push buttons on both sides at the same time no problem. It doesn’t matter what mode the phone is in when you start the process, so you don’t need to unlock it to do it.
- Now you must press the button side which is in the right side and keep it pressed, and simultaneously press the button lower volume, that is found In the left sideand you should also keep it pressed.
- At this time we must wait for the shutdown screen to appear on the device. Now we will see some options available on the screen. We will can make an SOS call to the person that we have pre-established as our emergency contact, as well as cancel the shutdown process that we have started.
- On this screen, we are also shown at the top, the option we want, “Slide to turn off”. Simply now we will have to slide that button to the right to turn off the device.
- Unlike other screens on our iPhone, this one does not go blank depending on the configuration we have on the device, so you have all the time in the world to select one of the options available to you.
- Your iPhone will turn off. Give it time to burn out completely, as this can take up to 30 seconds, depending on what your iPhone is currently handling, processes, and apps you had open. This method saves power, if we need it at some point, like a trip, and can act as a soft reset for certain problems, as I said above.
- And our iPhone would already be turned off.
Another method to turn off iPhone
Now if you want to turn your device back on, you simply have to hold down the side button on the right side, and give iPhone time to boot up again and show the lock screen. This method is similar to that of iPads.
Another way to turn off that we have to turn off our iPhone is from the Settings section. For this we are going to Setting>General and look for the option To turn off.
This method takes a bit more time and steps, so there isn’t much reason to use it when you can access the physical buttons on most iPhone models which is much faster.
How to turn off older iPhones
If you have an older iPhone with a home button, turning it off is a bit different than the method above. This is how you do it:
- Hold down the side button on the right. You don’t need to hold down the volume button simultaneously.
- SOS slider appears and off. Swipe right on the slider to turn off iPhone.
How to turn off very old iPhone
- If you have an older iPhone, older than the iPhone 6 or the first generation iPhone SE, the button is on the top of the phone instead of on the side. But this is already for very very old models.
