# How to shutdown?

**URL:** <https://forum.webosose.org/t/how-to-shutdown/257>\
**Category:** UI/UX\
**Created:** [March 23, 2018, 7:06pm UTC](https://forum.webosose.org/t/how-to-shutdown/257 "2018-03-23T19:06:41Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![lhimo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ba0ec/32.png) [@lhimo](https://forum.webosose.org/u/lhimo)\
**Post date:** [March 23, 2018, 7:06pm UTC](https://forum.webosose.org/t/how-to-shutdown/257/1 "2018-03-23T19:06:41Z")

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Hi there, I was wondering how can I shutdown the raspberryPi… Is it safe to just cut the power off? Maybe there is already a better way I couldn’t find? Thanks!

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**Author:** ![Garredow](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/forum.webosose.org/garredow/32/60_2.png) [@Garredow](https://forum.webosose.org/u/Garredow)\
**Post date:** [March 23, 2018, 11:54pm UTC](https://forum.webosose.org/t/how-to-shutdown/257/2 "2018-03-23T23:54:45Z")

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I’ve just been yanking the power cord out, but if you want a more proper way you can SSH into the Raspberry Pi and type “poweroff” in the terminal.

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**Author:** ![Changhyeok](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/forum.webosose.org/changhyeok/32/247_2.png) [@Changhyeok](https://forum.webosose.org/u/Changhyeok)\
**Post date:** [March 24, 2018, 12:57am UTC](https://forum.webosose.org/t/how-to-shutdown/257/3 "2018-03-24T00:57:34Z")

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Sorry. There is no power off button in the UX.

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**Author:** ![JoBoHo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/59ef9b/32.png) [@JoBoHo](https://forum.webosose.org/u/JoBoHo)\
**Post date:** [April 6, 2018, 12:25pm UTC](https://forum.webosose.org/t/how-to-shutdown/257/4 "2018-04-06T12:25:53Z")

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Better question: will ‘yanking the cord’ cause problems? I.e. for LibreElec it’s no problem to just unplug it, but for Raspbian you can cause corruption if you don’t shutdown properly.

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**Author:** ![raste](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bbce88/32.png) [@raste](https://forum.webosose.org/u/raste)\
**Post date:** [April 6, 2018, 12:31pm UTC](https://forum.webosose.org/t/how-to-shutdown/257/5 "2018-04-06T12:31:00Z")

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Been doing it for 2 days in a row, no problem noticed so far

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**Author:** ![n-jay](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/forum.webosose.org/n-jay/32/126_2.png) [@n-jay](https://forum.webosose.org/u/n-jay)\
**Post date:** [June 21, 2018, 2:38pm UTC](https://forum.webosose.org/t/how-to-shutdown/257/6 "2018-06-21T14:38:32Z")

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I think yanking the power cord doesn't do much harm.  
I've worked on the Android Things platform as well and even on that there isn't any way to "shutdown" using the UI.