iOS
Four Ways To Shut Off Your iPhone or iPad
Why so many different ways?
Yes, I suppose smashing it with a hammer might work, but let’s stick to non-destructive shutdowns. The first one I learned was to hold down the power button. That had to go away when Apple decided to have holding that button down call up Siri instead. I had to learn to hold the power button and then press the Volume Down, which was not easy.
With iOS 11, Apple added a Shutdown option to Settings->General. It’s way down at that bottom and in a different color, so many people have never noticed it. It took me a while, too.
In 2022, iOS 16 added Siri commands. You could say “Turn off my iPhone”, • “Shut down my iPhone”, “Shut down”, or “Turn off”.
In iOS 18.1 (in Beta as I write this, but coming soon), you can type to Siri by double tapping on the black bar at the bottom of your screen.
In iOS 18, Apple made a tiny addition to Control Center. It’s so small and so…