The humble power button has been a standard feature on phones since before they were smart. For most of that time, the button has been used for, you know, power. That changed when virtual assistants ...

Your phone's power, or side button as Samsung calls it, is probably one of the most-used buttons, though you might only be using to turn the display on and off. But it can do much more, from launching ...

The power button used to be the key to switch on or off your smartphone. However, device makers have taken more liberties with how this pusher controls our devices in recent years. Samsung and Google ...

Irene Okpanachi is a Features writer covering Android devices, laptops, portable projectors, VR headsets, software, and AI recorders for Android Police and Talk Android. She has five years' experience ...

Karandeep Singh Oberoi is a Durham College Journalism and Mass Media graduate who joined the Android Police team in April 2024, after serving as a full-time News Writer at Canadian publication ...

Google is toying with a new setting that would allow users to swap Android’s double-tap power button shortcut that currently opens the camera to instead open Google Wallet and other wallet apps, and ...

Samsung lets Galaxy phone users activate voice typing via the power button, and it’s available on older devices too. This could be useful if you think the voice typing icon is in an inconvenient place ...