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Newer iPads without the button - easy power down option.
I was fed up fiddling with the power button and volume control. Either the volume would shoot up or I would take yet another unwanted screenshot. So I had a look into it and found a YouTube video showing a much cleaner, quicker and easier option.
Settings - General - scroll to the bottom - Shut Down. And up there is the screen you want with the little cross ready to slide over 👍
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From "it just works" to "oops, where did the headphone jack go" to "you need a bloody video tutorial to be able to shut your ipad down", Apple just keeps breaking new ground with these amazing usability advances, don't they.
The goal is that you never shut the device down. They are pretty close to this now. I rarely ever shutdown my iPad and I abuse it constantly with beta software. The only time my iPhone ever gets shutdown is a reboot for system upgrade. That's a pretty major usability advance for a device like this if you ask me.
Does shutting it down not conserve the battery better than the standby mode?
Sure. Each to their own, I guess. Not being able to simply shut down my device, which I may have perfectly valid reasons for and which I could easily do in the past, is the exact opposite of advance*. For me, of course.
*Off-topic, but this reminds me of that legendary thread of old in the apple support forum, where some people were complaining that it was not possible to start up their mac without the start-up sound. The official reply was: you should not shut down your mac and then you don't need to restart it. That's apple in a nutshell for you.
To a degree and it depends a little bit on how long it is going to be shutdown. If it is a long time, then definitely yes. But, the power draw is minimal in standby and lots of work towards synching devices and assorted other tasks are handled then.
One of my favorite things about the iPhone is stuff like when I write a reply to someone in email on my Mac and then realize I need to text it to them on my phone. Select and copy on my Mac, wake up my phone from sleep, click paste, done. These things are enabled by the devices always being on. I walk in my house and the photos I took on my phone are synched to my Mac without waking up either device. Having everything being able to always be on makes all of this much more smooth.
My main point is that there are points to these design decisions. They aren't random. This kind of stuff is part of Apple. It goes all the way back to the way they laid out the box the original Mac came in and the icons they put on the box.
Ah right. Just wondering. I pretty much use the iPad for music & videos etc only.
Me too. If we had an alternative I would defect from Apple so fast....
I watch the space of available alternatives constantly. No one else is even close for music/audio related things. I hate the limitations and requirements that the App Store places on me, so I really want an alternative. I've given up on anyone else putting out something usable so I'm exploring how to make a little mobile platform that I can control from any tablet. But, then I won't have access to all of the great music apps on iOS. We are pretty much stuck.