How to turn off flashlight
How to turn off flashlight. You just came back from a night out with your friends and realized that your torch/flashlight accidentally stayed on your mobile phone. You turned it on because you needed it before, but now you don’t need it anymore and you don’t know how to turn it off because you just changed phones.
In this tutorial, I will teach you how to do both regarding Android phones and iPhones. Too easy.
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How to turn off flashlight on Android
If you are wondering How to turn off flashlight on Android, first of all, you should know that the easiest and fastest solution of all is to act through the quick settings menu.
This is the section that allows you to enable and disable the most common phone functions, such as Wi-Fi or Bluetooth .
However, if you previously turned on the flashlight and now want to turn it off, swipe from the top to the bottom of the screen to open Android’s quick settings menu. Then turn off flashlight by pressing clearly the icon.
What I have just shown is a general procedure that is generally applicable to all major Android phone models. But in fact, in certain models, there are other additional procedures that make it possible to achieve the same goal.
For example in the Huawei terminal, you can turn off flashlight even with the screen locked. To do this, first press the on/off button on the phone, then with the screen on but locked, swipe up from the bottom, and finally press the flashlight icon which you will find in the menu shown below.
However, on other phone models, such as the Wiko & Huawei To disable the flashlight, you can also proceed through the standard application. Therefore, recognize the application torch/torch located on the home screen or in the drawer and touch to launch it. At this point, you just have to press the torch on/off button and that’s it.
If you prefer to disable the flashlight on Android using voice commands, you can, provided you have previously enabled google assistant.
With that said, contact the Android virtual assistant by pressing the home button or saying the command » OK Google » Then say it out loud » Turn off flashlight “.
On iPhone:
To turn off flashlight on iPhone there is more than one solution: if you previously enabled Control Center, you can simply act to disable it. Alternatively, you can also ask Siri to turn off flashlight with a voice command.
In the first case, as mentioned, to turn off flashlight on an iPhone, the simplest method of all is the one that requires acting through the Control Center, a panel that includes quick commands for the most frequently performed actions (enable/disable Wi-Fi, for example), including torch activation.
The next time you activate the torch, access this panel again, swipe up from the bottom (on iPhone 8 and earlier models), or swipe down from the top right corner (on iPhone X and later models). At this point, you just have to press the torch icon precisely in Control Center, to turn it off.
If you’re having trouble disabling the flashlight, you may have mistakenly deleted the Torch icon file in Control Center in iOS.
In this case, to restore it, tap on the settings app located on the home screen ( gear icon ), and on the next screen that appears, tap on the Control center item.
Now, press the words Customize check and press the (+) button, under the torch heading. This way, the torch icon will be visible again in the Control Center window of iOS and then you can press it, for a quick turn on and off.
Or, if you have Siri enabled, you can ask Apple’s voice assistant to turn off flashlight for you, using a voice command.
To do this, please contact me first. Siri by voice command Hey sir or by home key (on iPhone 8 and earlier) or side button (on iPhone 13 and later) then just say the command “Siri extinguish torch”.