# Shutdown without touch screen

**URL:** <https://unity.neuraldsp.com/t/shutdown-without-touch-screen/19796>\
**Category:** Feature Requests\
**Created:** [October 9, 2025, 6:25pm UTC](https://unity.neuraldsp.com/t/shutdown-without-touch-screen/19796 "2025-10-09T18:25:35Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Lazzi](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/unity.neuraldsp.com/lazzi/32/9044_2.png) [@Lazzi](https://unity.neuraldsp.com/u/Lazzi)\
**Post date:** [October 9, 2025, 6:25pm UTC](https://unity.neuraldsp.com/t/shutdown-without-touch-screen/19796/1 "2025-10-09T18:25:35Z")

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It would be nice to be able to turn off the QC without using the touch screen, perhaps by holding down the power button. It would be very useful for those, like me, who use a plexiglass case. I know that support says you can unplug the power cord directly, but it never seemed like a good solution to me.

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**Author:** ![UglyBunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@UglyBunny](https://unity.neuraldsp.com/u/UglyBunny)\
**Post date:** [October 14, 2025, 12:04pm UTC](https://unity.neuraldsp.com/t/shutdown-without-touch-screen/19796/2 "2025-10-14T12:04:49Z")

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For the last year and a half, I just unplug it after practice or gigs…

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**Author:** ![Surefyre](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/unity.neuraldsp.com/surefyre/32/10957_2.png) [@Surefyre](https://unity.neuraldsp.com/u/Surefyre)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2026, 12:21pm UTC](https://unity.neuraldsp.com/t/shutdown-without-touch-screen/19796/3 "2026-08-29T12:21:05Z")

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Or just a message on the shutdown screen saying ‘press the power button again to shutdown’.

It could even have a user-definable behaviour to shutdown, sleep, restart, etc

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**Author:** ![Avelon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7ea924/32.png) [@Avelon](https://unity.neuraldsp.com/u/Avelon)\
**Post date:** [August 30, 2026, 11:11pm UTC](https://unity.neuraldsp.com/t/shutdown-without-touch-screen/19796/4 "2026-08-30T23:11:08Z")

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Yes I’d love that!

It would be really handy for people who have a screen protector on the QC… With a long press you wouldn’t have to remove the screen protector or unplug the unit (which apparently is bad for it and neural doesn’t recommend doing it)