{"id":1029299,"date":"2026-08-17T11:04:43","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T05:34:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1029299"},"modified":"2026-08-17T11:04:43","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T05:34:43","slug":"calls-ending-on-your-iphone-when-you-accidentally-press-the-side-button-heres-how-to-stop-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/17\/calls-ending-on-your-iphone-when-you-accidentally-press-the-side-button-heres-how-to-stop-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Calls ending on your iPhone when you accidentally press the side button: Here\u2019s how to stop it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Your iPhone can automatically end an active phone call if the side button is pressed. It is a handy default iOS feature that can sometimes cause accidental call disconnects and frustrations. The button provides a fast way to end a call without using the on-screen controls, but Apple has provided a way to turn this off in iOS 16. You can change the setting (under Accessibility) so that the side button locks your device instead of hanging up the call, which can help prevent accidental hang-ups during a conversation. The option is available on iPhones running iOS 16 or later and takes only a few steps to enable.<\/p>\n<p>How to stop the Side button from ending calls<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Your iPhone can automatically end an active phone call if the side button is pressed. It is a handy default iOS feature that can sometimes cause accidental call disconnects and frustrations. The button provides a fast way to end a call without using the on-screen controls, but Apple has provided a way to turn this off in iOS 16. You can change the setting (under Accessibility) so that the side button locks your device instead of hanging up the call, which can help prevent accidental hang-ups during a conversation. The option is available on iPhones running iOS 16 or later [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,88,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1029299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-times-of-india","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1029299"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1029300,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029299\/revisions\/1029300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1029299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1029299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1029299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}