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And siri instead of power down? How is that not more annoying than a dedicated bixby key that isn't in the place where you would expect a power button?

My brother literally couldn't figure out how to turn his phone off, how is this a two button combo???




Why would you dedicate a button to a function you hardly ever use???


Well, the button is already dedicated to turning off the screen and on previous iPhones, holding it down gave you the option to turn it off.

Now, holding it down brings up Siri, which now dedicates a button to a function I literally never use. I shutdown my phone at least once a month, whether that’s to do a simple restart, while at a no-phones event, or to save battery.

Now, you have to hold down the power button and the volume button to not only turn off the phone, but to access emergency SOS. If I’m in an emergency situation, I might not have the dexterity to do that with one hand or both hands free to do it with both. I have to use the latter considering how big the phones are now (iPhone X). My one hand is big enough to hold both buttons at the same time, but I need the other hand just to get the one in the right position.


I believe there is an additional SOS setting for pressing the ON\OFF button five times consecutively that has been around since at least my iPhone SE.


Not on the iPhone 8 and newer.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208076




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