The power button does not work. Alternative iPhone shutdown

Every iPhone owner at least once in my life I wondered how to properly and safely turn off my iPhone. There are several answers to this question. Depending on the smartphone itself and its condition, the methods by which you can disable the device vary and each of them is completely valid and also absolutely safe for the phone in question. This article will discuss three options for rebooting the Apple device.

First, we will consider the option of turning off the iPhone when it is in normal mode functioning, works properly and responds to all commands.

Turning off the smartphone in normal state

To disable the device in question under these conditions, the subscriber will need to perform some actions, following the following sequence:

1. First of all, you need to press and hold the power button of the smartphone until the large buttons “Turn off” and “Cancel” appear on the screen.
2. After this, you need to touch the iPhone display in the left area of ​​the red “Turn Off” button, and then, without lifting your finger from the display, swipe the said key until the end of its right area. This gesture is called “Swipe”, and as a result of this, the iPhone will begin to turn off.
3. To turn the device back on, you need to wait until its screen goes completely dark, and then click on the “Power” button. This will make the phone start in normal mode.

Forced shutdown of the smartphone

It happens that the iPhone freezes and stops responding to any operations, movements, commands, or completely stops functioning. Under such circumstances, it can be rebooted in the following way:

1. First, you need to simultaneously hold down the “Home” and “Power” keys and hold them down for about 10 seconds. This will help turn off your iPhone completely.
2. To start the device again, sometimes it is enough to simply release the pressed keys, but if this does not happen, you need to briefly press the Power off button. The smartphone will begin to boot in normal mode.

The method in question provides the ability to turn off and restart the iPhone if a software failure occurs. For the benefit of your own smartphone, it is recommended to use this option Only if absolutely necessary, it is better to use other options for rebooting the Apple device.

The third, and at the same time final, method of turning off the iPhone is suitable only if the device is functioning absolutely properly and its display does not have any problems, despite the fact that the power button is out of order.

Disabling a gadget without using buttons

You can control your iPhone even without using any mechanical buttons. The developers took into account the fact that mechanical buttons can sometimes break, so they created a unique control through touching the display. To do this, the subscriber will need to enable a feature called “Assistive Touch”. Using this function, you can flexibly customize the control of the device using a variety of gestures, but “mechanics” are absolutely not needed for this.

Activation of the Assistive Touch service

1. First you need to go to “Settings”, then go to “General”, and then open “ Universal Access».
2. Then you need to scroll to the end of the page with universal access settings, and then, in the “Physiology and Motor Skills” section, click on the “Assistive Touch” line.
3. In the settings window that appears, the activation slider for the function in question must be moved to the on position. An almost transparent key will appear on the smartphone display.
4. Finally, you need to touch touch screen phone, this must be done within the boundaries of the mentioned button. The display will present you with a window with available opportunities activated service.

Turning off an Apple smartphone via Assistive Touch

To disable your iPhone using this function you must:

1. Click on the menu icon of the previously mentioned program.
2. In the menu for this service, click on the “Device” icon, and then long press on the “Screen lock” item. This should cause the "Shutdown" as well as "Cancel" buttons to appear.
3. Subsequent actions should be the same as in the case of normal switching on of the device. Swipe your finger to the right on the “Turn Off” button.
4. To start the device again without using the power button, it must be connected to the PC using a USB cable. As a result of this mobile device start in normal mode.

The methods discussed above provide the opportunity complete shutdown either rebooting the iPhone in normal mode when it freezes, or the power button is out of order. The final method, which involves using the Assistive Touch service, allows you to incredibly flexibly customize the management of your smartphone using various gestures. But for this you need a fully functioning touchpad, and the device should operate in normal mode, since the considered function does not work on a “frozen” device.

There are several options to solve this problem, here are some of them:

Can button using charging

Can the device

You can use the Assitive Touch function

Turn off the iPhone when the button is not working using a charger

1. Must be connected to USB charging cable. The cable must be the original one supplied with the . Next, the device is connected to the USB port of the computer.

2. Then you should wait until the screen lights up. If the battery charge is low, then you need to wait a little longer - up to several minutes. This time can be calculated in ten minutes.

3. After the screen lights up, you need to move the slider to unlock the iPhone. Before replacement, it is recommended to turn on the Assistive Touch function. (If you have a lock code, you must enter it before you can gain access to the device.)

How to reboot iPhone without a button

1. First, go to the “Settings” application, then click “General” and “Accessibility”.

2. The page with “universal access” in the settings scrolls to the end, to the “Physiology and Motor skills” section, where you should select the “Assistive Touch” item.

3. Opposite “Assistive Touch”, move the slider to the “on” position. A transparent button should appear on the screen.

4. Press the button (tap gesture). The available Assistive Touch options should then appear in the screen window.

How to turn off your iPhone using Assistive Touch

1. On the icon you need to “tap” the Assistive Touch function menu.

2. In the menu, “tap” the “device” icon, then on the “screen lock”, long “tap” until the “cancel” and “turn off” buttons appear.

3. Then, on the “turn off” button, “swipe to the right”, after which it starts to turn off.

4. To turn on the faulty button, connect the iPhone to the computer with a USB cable.

At least once, but every iPhone owner or any other iOS device encountered software glitches when the device stops responding to touching the screen and pressing the mechanical control buttons (Home and Power). What to do if iPhone freezes and refuses to obey basic commands? In today's instructions we will introduce you, dear readers, to 3 methods how to restart iPhone from any condition.

To begin with, let's assume that your iPhone is working in normal mode, it responds correctly to touches on the touch screen, obediently responds to commands using the Home and Power buttons, and you need to restart your iPhone in normal mode.

How to restart iPhone in normal mode?

1. Press and hold the iPhone's power off button(aka "Power") before the appearance large buttons « Turn off" and "Cancel";

1. Touch iPhone screen on the left side of the red button " Turn off» (slide to power off) and, without lifting your finger from the surface of the screen, swipe the button to its right border. This gesture is called " Swipe"(from the English Swipe - to carry out without taking it off). The iPhone will begin to turn off.
2. Wait until the device screen goes completely dark and briefly press the “Power” button. The company logo will appear on the display Apple and the iPhone will start booting normally.

Force restart iPhone

Depending on the model, the method forced reboot will vary.

All iPhones released before iPhone 7

For iPhone 6, 6 plus, 6s, 6s plus, 5, 5S, 5C, SE, 4S and all previously released ones, you need to press the Home and Power button:

1. Press and hold the Home and Power buttons at the same time throughout 10 seconds(approximately). iPhone display will go out completely.

1. Release both buttons. If after this the screen does not appear Apple logo, briefly press the power button. The iPhone will start booting normally.

iPhone 7 and later

On iPhones that were released after the iPhone 7, the Home button was made touch-sensitive. If the iOS operating system is frozen, then it will not respond to pressing the sensor. They made another way to perform an emergency reboot:

1. Press the Power button and Volume Down button at the same time. Don't let go and hold for about 6 seconds.

1. The iPhone will reboot. The Apple logo will appear. Then it will boot normally

Given method allows you to force restart your iPhone or iPad when a software glitch occurs. We advise you to use this procedure in case of emergency, and if you can get by with the remaining 2 methods, use them. Leave this one as a last resort.

Third and final method reboot iPhone effective only when normal operation iOS device when touch display responds to touch and the device performs the necessary operations, but the power button is damaged or not working.

How to reboot iPhone without a button?

Manage mobile devices from Apple and iPhone in particular, Can And without mechanical control buttons. The creators took into account, although the high, but still limited resource of mechanical controls, and in case the touch display of your iPhone has outlived the control buttons, the operations for which the “mechanics” were responsible can be performed using gestures.

To activate full control iPhone using touch, you need to enable the " Assistive Touch«. This function allows you to flexibly configure device control using gestures and completely replaces mechanical control buttons.

Activating Assistive Touch

1. Go to Settings -> Basic -> Universal Access;

1. Scroll to the bottom of the Accessibility Settings page and under Interaction select paragraph " Assistive Touch«;

1. In the next settings window, move the activation slider opposite “ Assistive Touch" to position " Included"(colored in green). A translucent button will appear on the iPhone screen.

1. Touch the iPhone touch screen within this button (this gesture is called “Tap”). A window will appear on the screen with available Assistive Touch options.

Video instruction “How to enable Assistive Touch in iOS”

Turn off iPhone using Assistive Touch

As part of this instruction, we will get acquainted with the method of turning off an iOS device without using the “Power” button using the Assistive Touch function.

1. « Tap» on icon menu Assistive Touch;

1. In the menu for this function " tap» by icon « Apparatus"and then long tap(touch the screen of the device and do not lift your finger) by " Screen lock» wait for the buttons to appear « Turn off" and "Cancel";

1. And then everything is as before turning off iPhone in normal mode, do " swipe right» by the button « Turn off". The device will begin to turn off;
2. How same him then turn on if the shutdown button is faulty? Just connect iPhone to computer using USB cable and it will turn on in normal mode.

Video instruction “How to restart an iPhone without a button”

A few words in conclusion

The methods described above allow you to completely turn off or restart your iPhone or iPad from any state, in normal mode, if the iPhone is frozen or the Power button is faulty. The last method, using the Assistive Touch function, allows you to configure the control of your iOS device using gestures with maximum flexibility, with one “BUT”, the touch panel must be working properly and the device must function in normal mode; Assistive Touch does not work on a frozen iPhone.

If you, dear users, have any questions or difficulties in managing or setting touch control iPhone or iPad, contact us in the comments and we will try to help you as quickly as possible. Do you use Assistive function Touch and how?

Ruslan Panfilov writes to us

I've been using my 4 for over a year and a half now. There were no complaints, everything worked like a Swiss watch. However, just recently the lock key broke, and this added a little inconvenience. Although the phone's display only reacts to finger pressure, it lived its own life in the pocket of its pants - it went into different programs, called people and the like. And the iPhone battery drained much faster, since the phone was almost always with the display on. The auto-lock function helped a little in this situation, but waiting one minute for the phone to go into sleep mode was annoying, to put it mildly.

Of course, everyone understands that in such cases it is necessary to contact service center, but at that time I was at the dacha, and the nearest equipment repair service was 130 km away from me. And then one fine evening, a girl I know, who practically doesn’t understand iOS, explained to me how to lock the phone screen instantly, without any physical keys. At first I thought that a girl who doesn't understand anything about the operating room iOS system, can hardly teach a person who knows almost everything about Apple and its products, but I was wrong. All you need to do to lock your phone with a few taps is to activate the AssistiveTouch feature (Settings -> General -> Accessibility -> AssistiveTouch).

After this, a small button appears on the screen, which is located on top of the desktop and moves freely along all edges of the display. By pressing this key, the Assistive Touch menu opens, in which you can not only lock the phone, but also adjust the phone volume, press the Home button, and so on. And this is also very useful when the above physical buttons don't work.

Not a single device, even the most powerful and high-quality one, can work without periodic “glitches”. And yes, even Apple smartphones can freeze from time to time. But since this happens extremely rarely, users are often at a loss and don’t know what to do to resume working with the device.

Although you need to act here as usual - the equipment is frozen - reboot, but how can you reset a smartphone that does not respond to any actions? Apple has it all figured out! In this article we will tell you how to turn off your iPhone if it is frozen.

However, before we give instructions on how to turn off a frozen iPhone, we want to explain to you how to turn it off normally. Yes, most of you probably know perfectly well how to do this, but what if the article was opened by a beginner who is just getting acquainted with Apple technology? Our instructions will be very useful for such a person.

So, to turn off your i-smartphone you need to:

The picture illustrating the instructions shows an iPhone 4S, but all others Apple smartphones, you will find the indicated key in the same place. The only exceptions are the iPhone 6/6S and iPhone 7 models - these smartphones have the Power button located on the right side.

To now turn on the device, you just need to press the Power button and hold it until the familiar “apple” appears on the screen - this means that the boot process has begun, and you can release the button.

Well, now let's talk about how to turn off your iPhone if it is frozen and does not respond to any actions. In general, everything will be very simple here too:

How to turn off iPhone if one of the mechanical buttons does not work?

Unfortunately, gadgets tend not only to freeze, but also to break. Mechanical buttons- a particularly common problem with iPhones. Therefore, users are often faced with the question of how to turn on the iPhone 5S or any other, as well as turn it off or restart it if one of the buttons does not work. Well, we will tell you how to act in this situation.

The option “Assistive Touch” will help you turn off your iPhone without a button; to activate it:

And now, actually, how to turn off the device using this function. You probably noticed that after activating Assistive Touch, a gray translucent square with a bright white circle inside appeared on your screen? Great! Then:

Well, okay, how should the iPhone turn off if Home button or Power do not work, we figured it out, now how to turn it on.

It all depends on what's broken. If the Home button does not work, then turn on the gadget in the standard way by pressing the Power key, but in the case when the Power is broken, you will have to use in an exotic way- connect your iPhone to your PC with iTunes or charger, and then it will turn on automatically.

If both buttons do not work for you, this is a more serious problem. You won't be able to unlock the screen, which means you won't be able to access Assistive Touch. And you have only one way to turn off your smartphone - discharge it.

Well, as for the reboot, it won’t be possible to do it even with one broken button, and therefore, in order to return the gadget to normal operation, you will have to, again, discharge it “in the middle of nowhere” and then turn it on.

How to turn off iPhone if the screen does not work?

And one more situation that needs to be sorted out. What should I do if the sensor does not work, that is, the display does not react in any way to the shutdown swipe?

IN in this case You can turn off your smartphone only by discharging the battery, and you can restart and turn it on using the usual methods.

Let's summarize

Well, we've described everything possible methods turn on, turn off and restart your iPhone and hopefully you have found the right one for you! By the way, it is worth noting that the Assistive Touch option can be used not only to turn off the phone without a button, it opens up access to a lot of interesting and useful features, for example, to gesture control.