When you do what you describe you are not actually turning off the phone, you are restarting it. If you want to turn it off and you don't want to use the buttons, you can go to Settings > General > Shutdown and double tap. This also brings up the same menu as holding down say Volume Down and thew Side button, focus is most likely on Power Off, but just make sure of it because as I said, it's the same menu and it also includes the emergency call buton. Anyways, if you simultaneously press and hold volume down and the side button until the menu comes up, the only way you call emergency services would be if focus is on that button and you double tap without tchecking. I always swipe left until I get to the Power Off button and if it seems I am on Power Off already I may even swipe right once and back to the left to make sure. The screen when this menu comes up is laid out as follows:
At the very top you still have the status bar with the time, your cell signal, Wi-Fi and battery status on the right Just underneath that is where it says "Double Tap to the Power Off" button, for a sighted person it actually says "Slide to Power off" because instead of double tapping they do a left to right swipe. After this there is now something I realize I never heard before, it says literally the following "location.fill.radiowaves.left.and.right iPhone Findable After Power Off  Forward" I tapped on that to see what it would do and the following message pops up on the screen: iPhone remains findable after power off. Find My helps you located this iPhone when it is lost or stolen even after power off. The location is visible in Find My on your other devices and to people in family sharing you share location with. You can temporarily turn off Find My network and it will resume when this iPhone is powered on again. Then there is an OK button. What I don't know is whether tapping on this turns off the Find My after power off because the only thing you can do when you see the above message is tap the OK button and this takes you right back to the same Power Off screen, but this weird sounding and not very descriptive button is not read any differently by Voiceover. I will write to Apple Accessibility and ask for clarification regarding this. OK, back to the Power Off screen description: If you swipe right again you now come to the "Medical Id" button Another swipe right takes you to the "Emergency Call" button If you explore the screen instead of swiping right you will find that there is a bit of a gap between the first two buttons and these two which are pretty much right in the middle of the screen. Lastly, if you swipe right again from the Emergency Call button, you find a "Cancel" button and as the name implies, if you double tap here it will again close this screen and take you back to wherever you were before. That button is again after a gap and it's located near the bottom of the screen. All these buttons go right across most of the screen from left to right, i.e. you can touch your screen near the left side and drag your finger down and find them or you can touch the screen near the top on the right side or in the middle. You really shouldn't be that afraid, you are much more likely to accidently call emergency services if you press the side button too many times repeatedly, just pressing and holding a volume button and the side button won't do that if you are careful not to double tap afterwards without making sure you are not on the emergency call button. Best regards, Sieghard -----Original Message----- From: viphone@googlegroups.com <viphone@googlegroups.com> On Behalf Of Vicky Collins Sent: November 21, 2021 6:31 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: two questions, signing out of iCloud and turning off iPhone First, when reading the instructions for selling or giving away or whatever an old iPhone, before erasing the iPhone, one is also advised to sign out of iCloud, and I was wondering why since erasing the phone signs one out of iCloud, anyway? Second, in regards to turning off the iPhones without the home button, I know Apple talks about holding in one of the volume buttons and the side button for a few seconds. But being afraid of calling 911 by mistake, I've always pressed the volume up button and released it, pressed the volume down button and released it, then pressed the side button and released it and I have gotten the dialog to shut down the phone. 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