Once, the power button on a smartphone turned the phone on and off, but an annoying trend is seeing the button repurposed for different duties.

Now, if you, like countless others have been using an Android phone for quite some time, you know that long-pressing the power button on your smartphone pops up the shutdown or restart options.

How to restart an iPhone that has a broken power button? As is the case with Android phones, there are a few tricks that apply to iPhones that can help you turn off the phone without a power ...

The Android power button is among the strongest pieces of design Google has ever produced. It's merely one key tucked along the side of my mobile device. The power button does many things. I use ...

The power button is a basic accessibility feature, but we need consistency in the Android world to define what it can and cannot do.

How 2014. Gravity Screen (Android) is a free app that relies on your phone's accelerometers and other sensors to give you a motion-powered alternative to the power button.