Xbox controller turns off

Turn off your XBOX. Now turn on your XBOX AT the XBOX NOT with the controller, then turn on your controller.

Hi Gersonzao,

Thanks for reaching out to the forums. We understand you have question on turning console off. All three options you mentioned are good to turn the console off. Here is a

guide for further assistance.

ontroller

• To turn off your Xbox 360 console and Xbox 360 Wireless Controller, press and hold the
  Guide button  on the controller for three seconds. Next, select to turn off just the controller or the controller and the console. If you select the console, the console and all connected controllers are
  turned off.
• To turn off only the console, press the power button on the console.
  

Thanks,

Brad

You can simply press and hold the XBox icon button in the middle of the controller and it will give you three options: Turn Off Console, Turn Off Controller or Cancel. When you select Turn Off Controller, you may still get the 'Reconnect Controller' warning.

hi SnackPack83

unfortunately you cannot, the controller is set to ''always'' connect to the last synced device.

you will have to sync your controller every time you want to switch device

and turning off the controller by pressing and holding the Xbox button until it turn off is the intended way of turning it off without turning the Xbox off (when synced to an Xbox), or when synced to another device other then the Xbox

Usually if you plug the controller in, it will stay on. But if it's still turning off, it sounds like it's just turning off due to idle time where it naturally powers off if you haven't touched the controller in a few minutes. If you want to afk in a game,
what everyone does is place your character in the game in a position where you can press forward indefinitely (or any other direction) like maybe pushing your character up against a wall, and people use something else like a book or a rubber band to hold
the controller stick going forward (like walking into a wall, so nothing actually happens in your game) and they leave the controller like that. It keeps an action going, so your controller never idles out and turns off on you, but you can leave it afk if
you wish to. Just make sure that nothing you are afk'ing would be voilating any ToS, such as doing this in a Multi-Player game where people join a lobby and then go afk and not actually do anything to help their team, but rather just 'be there' to get XP etc.
Hope that helps!