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 ...

There was once a time when it was obvious what the three buttons on the side of your phone did. One turned the volume up, one turned the volume down, and the final one turned the phone on and off. It ...

Android phones and tablets come in all shapes and sizes, and they're often among the best smartphones on the market. However, even the best tech still runs into issues sometimes. A reboot is usually ...

Restarting an Android device is easy: you press the power button in combination with either the volume up or down button, and tap Restart in the power menu. But what if one of those buttons isn't ...

Most people believe the power button on a smartphone is only meant to turn the device on or off. However, this small button is far more powerful than it seems. When configured properly, the power ...

The next-gen iPhone 15 Pro models may swap its physical volume and power buttons for solid state versions that use haptic feedback, analyst Min-Chi Kuo wrote in a tweet spotted by MacRumors. The ...

The iPhone's side button is pretty well-known as the power button, mainly because that's what people usually use it for: turning the iPhone on and off and locking and unlocking the device. When you ...

I think a lot about power buttons these days. With modern devices — especially smartphones — we don’t really use them as power buttons, because our phones are never really off. But that’s a ...

An Apple analyst has claimed that the iPhone 15 series could ditch physical volume and power buttons. Instead, the company might offer solid-state buttons akin to the iPhone 7’s home key. Apple is no ...

If you’re a long-time Android user, you’re used to long-pressing the power button to (logically) power your phone on or off. For a while, long-pressing the button while the phone was on also enabled ...

Kuo predicts this change will happen on the high-end iPhone models released in the second half of next year. “My latest survey indicates that the volume button and power button of two high-end iPhone ...