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How to Turn an iPhone Off

Looks like the best phone ever made has a big usability issue! An iPhone owner went on a cruise, and came home to a $4800 iPhone bill from AT&T. It turns out that he thought he turned the phone off when he hit the power button, but it was actually still on and checking email.

When you hit the power button once, it just turns the screen off. You have to do a long press to turn the phone off completely. Watch the video over at CNET by Tom Merritt.

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Actually a co-worker had a difficult time trying to turn off the phone before boarding a flight. They had to call another co-worker that had one to ask.

Yeah, that’s huge. I don’t understand why Apple implemented this extra power state into the iPhone…

I need some help trying to turn off my glitchy i phone off…its stuck in a mode where it shows the apple logo, and then it spams codes…i’m panicking right now because i was supposed to unlock it for someone >.< but now 300 dollars goes to waste! please help

[...] It bugs me that I am told to turn off my QC2s, when there are probably at least a half-dozen cellphones on board that aren’t turned off (either the passenger forgot or doesn’t know how to actually turn it off). Even the iPhone isn’t the easiest device to turn completely off. [...]