4 Ways To Turn Off The Flashlight On iPhone
Suppose in the middle of the night, you hear some noise coming from the kitchen. This frightens you that who at night wants something from the kitchen. Mustering up all the courage you take your phone, get to the flashlight on your iPhone, and turn it on. After turning on the flashlight you go to the kitchen. But to your surprise, you find your cat there who’s trying to get her favorite pet food from the cabin. Upon seeing this, you get relieved. Turning the flashlight on was a simple task for you and you did it with fear and curiosity to check who was in the kitchen. But now you want to turn it off without wasting any time. Because you have to sleep and don’t want your sleep to be ruined anymore. So here are the simplest of ways to turn off the flashlight on your iPhone.
Use Siri to turn off the flashlight on iPhone.
Siri can be very handy when it comes to doing small tasks like turning the flashlight off in a quick way.
- If you have enabled the “Hey Siri” on your iPhone then you would have to simply say,” Hey Siri, turn off my flashlight.” By doing so, it will turn off the flashlight. See how in this simple step you can have your flashlight turned off without wasting further time.
You will also get a confirmatory message from Siri, telling you that the job has been done by it.
- If you somehow haven’t enabled the “Hey Siri” feature don’t need to worry! You still can access the feature to turn the flashlight off. It will require a little extra effort of pushing the home button or side button. When you will push any of these buttons, you will get access to Siri. Here you can say, ”Turn the flashlight off” or “Shut off the flashlight” and the flashlight will be turned off. Here you will get the same confirmatory message from Siri telling you the flashlight has been turned off.
Use the control center to turn off the flashlight on iPhone.
The people who consider not using Siri in their daily life can use the control center for turning the flashlight off. This can be executed in 2 simple steps. You will first have to access the control center and then you have to turn it off there. In different models of iPhones, there are different ways to access the control center.
1. In older models of iPhone like iPhone 7 plus etc.
You have to swipe up the home screen to access the control center. After that, you can find the icon of the flashlight there and turn the flashlight off. In these 2 steps, you can have your flashlight shut off.
2. In new models of iPhone like iPhone 8, X, 11, etc.
If you have a new model like Apple iPhone 11 then you can follow this simple process to how to turn off the flashlight on iPhone 11. First, go to the home screen of your iPhone 11, then swipe down. By doing so you will get the control center in front of you, from here you can select the flashlight icon and have the flashlight turned off.
Use the Camera to turn off the flashlight.
Suppose you are in the concert and there you have to turn the flashlight on after the performance now you have to turn the flashlight off or your battery will be drained. In the crowd, you don’t consider unlocking your phone or seeing it for a longer time, to turn the flashlight off you simply turn the camera on, and then the flashlight will be turned off. By doing this simple step you can turn it off.
Use the lock screen to turn off the flashlight.
You were searching for some old documents in the archive room with your colleagues where you have to turn on the flashlight as there’s darkness in the room. After turning on the flashlight, you searched for the documents and found them. Now you are coming from the room in which you have to turn the flashlight off. You don’t have to want to unlock your phone and go to the control center to do the task. You simply turn it off from the lock screen of your iPhone. Yes, the last and the simplest way to turn it off on the iPhone is by turning it off from the lock screen. But this handy feature comes with only the iPhone X series. Therefore, if you are a person who has iPhone X, XS, XR, etc you can have access to this cool feature,
Remove the flashlight from the lock screen.
If you are a Siri user or have the habit of using a flashlight from the control center, then the flashlight icon on the lock screen will be of no use to you. Moreover, having the flashlight icon on your lock screen can be very irritating as with minor touches it gets turned on and ultimately the battery will be drained out. To your surprise, there is no such feature to help you in this regard. Having a flashlight and camera on the lock screen is the default feature of the iPhone X series and it can not be removed from there. But you can do the other way around, simply turn off the “raise to wake” feature. You can do it in the following steps,
- Launching the settings.
- Then going to the display and brightness
- Here you can turn the raise to wake feature off.
By doing so, you can have the raise-to-wake feature turned off, and then you won’t be able to access the flashlight from the lock screen.
Adding flashlight in the control center.
Sometimes you don’t have the flashlight icon in the control center. Don’t need to worry you can simply add it by following these simple steps.
- Launch the settings.
- Find the control center there.
- After finding it click on it
- Now find the flashlight option there.
- Now press the green button and your flashlight has been added to the control center.
In the end, by following these simple and cool steps you can have your flashlight turned off on your iPhone.
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