Once upon a time in tech, Android phones shipped with tactile, ribbed power buttons for convenient accessibility - then one ...

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.

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 Android power button is no longer the power button, but how do readers feel about this? Believe it or not, it's a hugely divisive topic.

I can see the case for it — it lowers the power button on particularly large phones, making it easier to tap with your thumb — but I find that it places the volume buttons too high up for comfort.

Tired of Bixby popping up whenever you press the power button on your Galaxy S24? It's an easy fix and we've got the video and step-by-step guide to prove it.

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

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.

As of Android Marshmallow, however, all Android phones can launch the camera with a double-tap of the power button (unless a manufacturer removed the feature for some reason).

Eventually, I discovered that I could double-press the power button to launch the camera on my Samsung phone. It also works on Google Pixel phones and other devices.