How To Turn off an iPad
How To Turn off an iPad
When it comes to the time of completely turning off your iPad which also can help you with troubleshooting or saving your battery power—the process is not immediately obvious. Luckily, there are two ways that are easy to do it, and we will show you how.
Powering off vs. Sleeping
It is really important to understand the difference between when you are locking your iPad and when you are powering off your iPad completely. When you have pushed the side or the top button on your iPad once, you are only turning off the screen and you are putting your device into a “lock” or a “sleep” mode. This allows the iPad to still keep running, but it be using less battery life than if the screen were lit on all the time.
When you have powered off your iPad, the device will completely shut down, it turns off, and does not use any battery power at all.
How to Shut Down Your iPad Using The Hardware Buttons
You will notice that there is an hardware button. The hardware buttons is what you need to hold to shut down an iPad.
For you to quickly turn off your iPad using buttons on the device, you will need to perform just a slightly different button press maneuver all depending on the kind of iPad that you have.
1. On the iPads that is without a Home button: Simultaneously press the top button and also the volume up button or the down button until you see that the power-off slider appears on the screen.
2. On the iPads that is with a Home button: Simply press and hold the top button until the power-off slider appears.
3. When you can see the “Slide to Power Off” slider display on the screen, just place your finger on the white circle and then you swipe your finger to the right.
4. The Apple "Slide to Power Off" slider. Your iPad will start a quick shut down process and then the power will off completely.
How You Can Shut Down an iPad Using the Settings App
It is also possible for you to bring up the power off slider from within the Settings app, and no buttons necessary. This can come in handy only if your iPad’s top button or the volume buttons are broken.
1. First, to get started, launch Settings on your iPad by clicking on the gray gear icon.
2. Launch Settings App on an iPad
3. In Settings, click “General.”
4. In iPad Settings, click "General."
5. In “General,” scroll down getting to the bottom of the right column and click “Shut Down.”
6. In iPad General settings, click "Shut Down."
7. When the “Slide to Power Off” appears on your screen, just swipe the white circle to the right, and your iPad will be shut down completely.
8. On your iPad, simlply slide your finger to the right on the white circle to power off your device.
That is it. Now, you can finally relax or you can still immediately turn the iPad back on again.
How to Turn The iPad Back on Again
After you have turned off your iPad, you might still want to immediately start it back on if the reason you were restarting it is to fix an issue. Luckily, that is very easy to do. Just hold your iPad’s top button down for just a few moments until you see the Apple logo display in the middle of your screen. After that, you are ready to go. Enjoy!
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