I don't turn it off, but I put it on airplane mode regularly when I'm going to be in a low signal area where it will rapidly drain the battery trying to connect to towers, e.g. while backpacking.
I recently went on a trip to Europe where I had to swap out my regular SIM card for a European SIM card, then swap back when I returned. Changing the SIM card on my phone requires removing the battery, so, yes, I powered my phone off to do this.
Otherwise, I almost never power off my phone. I do switch it to airplane mode when I fly, and set it to silent when appropriate.
"Unfortunately, where you listed the example of 'badly behaving apps' as one of the sounds it does play, this shows that in many cases the only way to be sure that it will not play sounds is to turn the power off. That is the only way to know this will not happen."
The problem I described happened many times these last 6 days. I made extra sure it was on silent each time (it was). I was pretty sure anyhow since I pretty much perpetually leave it on silent.
Maybe it's a quirk of this particular model (iPhone 5), or some sort of bug, but it's definitely making the low battery sound while physical switch is set to mute.
Every night. I love not being oncall any more. I started out as a sysadmin, then Dir Ops, and now I'm a consultant/trainer. 15 years of on-call was enough.
Always set to silent. Never turn it off but I tend to not even take it with me most of the time. Important stuff never happens via mobile phone or social media anyway.
Well, I used it for a few years until experience showed that having a phone on you all the time does not actually provide any benefits, so it's mostly landline replacement indeed.
It mostly stays in my pocket, and is often set on silent. It is never in a room where I'm sleeping unless I am using its alarm function. I rarely think to turn it off, unless for some reason I've let the battery run low.
At the movies, while at work, international travel if going long periods w/o easy access to an outlet, and in some countries where I'm particularly worried about security concerns.
It's not very important to me. I live in a rural area with bad coverage, but more importantly--I own a computer, and I spend most of my day on it. I can't see the use for my phone when I'm sitting at my computer.
Do those of you who turn your phones off or leave them places not have spouses/children to be responsible for, aging parents/grandparents to help out with, or in generally want to be available for friends when they need anything or just want to grab a beer and catch up?
I very much want my child and anyone who may be charged with keeping them safe to be able to contact me 24/7. Too much can go wrong too fast to not be able to be there for those that I care about.
'Constantly being contactable' is something of an old person's gripe, because they grew up with being unreachable by default. I walked 30 mins to school when I was 8, and took day-long biking trips with my younger brother at 14 yo without having a phone.
Almost unheard of these days (depending on where you live).
Personally I never switch off my iphone or even set it silent, but after years of living an event-driven life I learned to ignore those interruptions.
Nope. It's a Nokia 130 or something with no internet stuff, and the only people who know the number are close friends who only call when it's really necessary.
I rarely turn it entirely off, since it takes an annoyingly long time to start back up again, but it stays in silent mode most of the time. I don't use email sync, either, and I leave location services disabled unless I'm about to launch an app for which I think location services would be useful. Basically I want the phone to sit there and do nothing until I decide I want something from it.
Always to fully silent, vibration off too. Watch is set to silent and vibrate, and I take it off between 6-8PM for family time. Do Not Disturb on the Watch is switched on when I go to sleep, so I can still track my sleep.
Mine's on silent 24/7, no vibration, but never off. Also, being a millennial woman with small pockets that don't fit my phone, I almost always have it in my hand so I can see anything I've missed every 15-20 minutes at least. I have all of my notifications for social media turned off.
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[ 3.4 ms ] story [ 102 ms ] threadOtherwise, I almost never power off my phone. I do switch it to airplane mode when I fly, and set it to silent when appropriate.
The only sound that plays is sound that you specifically asked for, like music or sound from a video, the alarm and sound from badly behaving apps.
"Unfortunately, where you listed the example of 'badly behaving apps' as one of the sounds it does play, this shows that in many cases the only way to be sure that it will not play sounds is to turn the power off. That is the only way to know this will not happen."
Maybe it's a quirk of this particular model (iPhone 5), or some sort of bug, but it's definitely making the low battery sound while physical switch is set to mute.
When I was on-call, and then got a weekend off, I turned it off. Someone always tried to call. But I'm not in that 24/6 space anymore.
I turn it off in flight, sometimes. Airplane mode otherwise.
Very rarely off completely.
Also, an incidental reboot happens because the battery runs out.
It's not very important to me. I live in a rural area with bad coverage, but more importantly--I own a computer, and I spend most of my day on it. I can't see the use for my phone when I'm sitting at my computer.
Do those of you who turn your phones off or leave them places not have spouses/children to be responsible for, aging parents/grandparents to help out with, or in generally want to be available for friends when they need anything or just want to grab a beer and catch up?
I very much want my child and anyone who may be charged with keeping them safe to be able to contact me 24/7. Too much can go wrong too fast to not be able to be there for those that I care about.
Almost unheard of these days (depending on where you live).
Personally I never switch off my iphone or even set it silent, but after years of living an event-driven life I learned to ignore those interruptions.
Good point about children: I dare not be incommunicado during the day.