Shut Down Using Your iPhone 's Buttons Holding down your iPhone 13 model's Side button won't show you the Power Off menu. Instead, it will activate Siri or do absolutely nothing if you've disabled the Siri shortcut. So, to shut down and restart your iPhone using its hardware buttons, you have two options, as seen below. Remember that these will only shut off your iPhone , not restart it. See Options 6–8 below for how to restart your iPhone . Learn how to use the side button, volume buttons or Settings to turn your iPhone on or off . You can also force restart your iPhone if it's not working as expected. Learn how to switch off iPhone using buttons, Settings, Siri, or accessibility tools, plus force restart steps for frozen devices. How to turn off your iPhone using Settings There’s also a way to turn off your iPhone from the Settings app, in case the physical buttons on your iPhone aren’t working.