If until recently you had an iPhone 6s in your hands, which you decided to exchange for an iPhone 11 or iPhone 12 , you may have been surprised to discover that the new device did not turn off as usual. That is, pressing the side button for a few seconds until the corresponding option appeared on the screen, which you then had to slide with your finger until the mobile phone turned off completely.
If it happened to you like me, and you spent a few minutes looking for a way to turn off the new version, looking like a beginner who had never used an iPhone before, you should know if it is not something isolated.
And it is that Apple has carried out important changes in the operation of the device over the past years, which includes, for example, the disappearance of the home button in most devices (not including the new iPhone SE 2020 , which still maintains it).
Luckily, turning off the iPhone 11 and 12 is easy and straightforward; As long as, of course, you know how to do it. We guide you step by step.
Turning off our iPhone 11 and 12 easily with the buttons
Although the side button does not work as before, this does not mean that it does not continue to be useful when turning off the mobile phone.
Not in vain, to turn it off it is necessary to press and hold both the right button and the up button or the volume down button simultaneously, without releasing them, since if we release them before time the terminal will make a capture of screen.
Once this is done, the screen will appear to be able to turn off the device. If this is our goal, we simply have to click on the Slide to turn off slider, which we will find at the top, proceeding to drag it to the right so that the screen and the phone turn off.
Of course, it is also possible to activate the SOS Emergency mode, by dragging the slider to the right. In case you don’t want to do anything, you just have to click on the Cancel button, or press any of the three buttons on the terminal.
Turning off our iPhone 11 and 12 from the Settings menu
Through the Settings menu it is also possible to turn off our phone. To do this, we must go to the Settings icon, General , and then it is necessary to slide through the screen to the bottom, where we will find the Shutdown button.
The shutdown screen will then display, including the slide button labeled Slide to Shutdown . If we want to turn it off, we simply slide our finger across the control to the right. The device will finally turn off after a few seconds.
