Turning Off Your iPad

The main difference between turning your iPad off and putting it to sleep is that turning the iPad off conserves its battery power. The drawback is that if you turn the iPad off, it takes a few seconds longer to start up again when you need it.

When an iPad is on, you can turn it off by following these steps:

  1. Hold down the Sleep/Wake button until a red "slide to power off" arrow button appears at the top of the screen.

  2. Slide the red arrow button to the right (or tap Cancel if you don't want to turn off your iPad after all).

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