diff --git a/deltachat-ffi/src/lib.rs b/deltachat-ffi/src/lib.rs
index cf5ed81ea..04d039a5f 100644
--- a/deltachat-ffi/src/lib.rs
+++ b/deltachat-ffi/src/lib.rs
@@ -657,7 +657,7 @@ pub unsafe extern "C" fn dc_get_next_event(events: *mut dc_event_emitter_t) -> *
 #[no_mangle]
 pub unsafe extern "C" fn dc_stop_io(context: *mut dc_context_t) {
     if context.is_null() {
-        eprintln!("ignoring careless call to dc_shutdown()");
+        eprintln!("ignoring careless call to dc_stop_io()");
         return;
     }
     let ctx = &*context;
diff --git a/python/src/deltachat/account.py b/python/src/deltachat/account.py
index 3a895c292..4d2d13338 100644
--- a/python/src/deltachat/account.py
+++ b/python/src/deltachat/account.py
@@ -710,7 +710,7 @@ class Account(object):
         if self._event_thread.is_alive():
             self.log("WARN: event thread did not terminate yet, ignoring.")
 
-        self.log("remove dc_context references, making the Account unusuable")
+        self.log("remove dc_context references, making the Account unusable")
         self._dc_context = None
 
         self._shutdown_event.set()
diff --git a/src/context.rs b/src/context.rs
index 9286552be..f37341b5e 100644
--- a/src/context.rs
+++ b/src/context.rs
@@ -202,6 +202,11 @@ impl Context {
 
     /// Stops the IO scheduler.
     pub async fn stop_io(&self) {
+        // Sending an event wakes up event pollers (get_next_event)
+        // so the caller of stop_io() can arrange for proper termination.
+        // For this, the caller needs to instruct the event poller
+        // to terminate on receiving the next event and then call stop_io()
+        // which will emit the below event(s)
         info!(self, "stopping IO");
 
         if let Err(err) = self.inner.stop_io().await {