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  • Apple says iOS 18 allows you to more easily turn the iPhone off

    From Wolf Greenblatt@21:1/5 to All on Thu Jun 13 15:20:16 2024
    https://9to5mac.com/2024/06/13/forget-how-to-turn-off-your-iphone-ios-18-now-offers-a-dedicated-power-button/

    One of the unfortunate results of the iPhone dropping the Home button is
    that turning your device off became more complicated than before.

    There's even an official support page to teach you how to do it. https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/turn-iphone-on-or-off-iph841379c3d/ios

    On older iPhones, you could just hold down the side button to see the power slider appear on screen. But in today's post-Home button era, the side
    button is now used to invoke Siri instead, so you have to hold both the
    side button and a volume button to power down.

    That small change broke years of muscle memory and wrought confusion, so
    much so that Apple is introducing a dedicated power button in iOS 18.

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  • From Alan Browne@21:1/5 to Wolf Greenblatt on Thu Jun 13 15:28:41 2024
    On 2024-06-13 15:20, Wolf Greenblatt wrote:
    https://9to5mac.com/2024/06/13/forget-how-to-turn-off-your-iphone-ios-18-now-offers-a-dedicated-power-button/

    One of the unfortunate results of the iPhone dropping the Home button is
    that turning your device off became more complicated than before.

    There's even an official support page to teach you how to do it. https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/turn-iphone-on-or-off-iph841379c3d/ios

    On older iPhones, you could just hold down the side button to see the power slider appear on screen. But in today's post-Home button era, the side
    button is now used to invoke Siri instead, so you have to hold both the
    side button and a volume button to power down.

    That small change broke years of muscle memory and wrought confusion, so

    Not like I turn my phone off so often that "muscle memory" for it is established.

    much so that Apple is introducing a dedicated power button in iOS 18.

    Cool that an iOS update will add physical buttons to older phones.
    Technology!

    --
    "It would be a measureless disaster if Russian barbarism overlaid
    the culture and independence of the ancient States of Europe."
    Winston Churchill

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  • From Tyrone@21:1/5 to All on Thu Jun 13 20:56:22 2024
    On Jun 13, 2024 at 3:20:16 PM EDT, "Wolf Greenblatt" <wolf@greenblatt.net> wrote:

    On older iPhones, you could just hold down the side button to see the power slider appear on screen. But in today's post-Home button era, the side
    button is now used to invoke Siri instead

    Only if you have "Press Side Button for Siri" enabled. On my phone the side button turns the screen on or off.

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