Apple’s iOS 18 brings a new and more convenient way to shut down your iPhone — but it’s no more obvious than the existing options. Whether you’re packing the iPhone away or taking it to be repaired, here’s everything you can do.
Pressing and holding Volume Up and Power buttons on either side of the iPhone will bring up the shutdown screen
Pressing and holding Volume Up and Power buttons on either side of the iPhone will bring up the shutdown screen
There’s a significant difference between just putting an iPhone to sleep versus turning it off completely. The former is simple to do — you just tap the side or sleep/wake button on the right-hand side of the iPhone to put it to sleep.
Powering down the iPhone, by contrast, involves a short procedure to confirm that you want to switch off the device down completely. Beyond the different ways you can first initiate the shutdown, you must then always confirm it by swiping an on-screen slider from left to right.
