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 ...

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 ...

One UI 7 did a lot to bring Samsung’s phones up to a new standard, and some cool little features that usually fly under the radar are included in that. One UI 7 lets you change your power button ...

Is it a controversial design choice or a completely acceptable location for the new Mac mini power button? Credit: Apple The new Mac mini, powered by the M4 chipset, was announced last month. Not only ...

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 ...

Will was the Phones Editor at Android Police from August 2022 to May 2025, which usually meant his desk was covered in a dozen different smartphones at any given time. Prior to that, he was a news ...

Apple's decision to place the power button of the M4 Mac mini underneath has been questioned by users. In some cases, they've come up with their own "solutions" to the problem. Rather than at the rear ...

I don’t have any statistics on this, but most of the laptops that cross my desk have one thing in common: pressing the power button puts them to sleep (i.e. standby mode) instead of actually shutting ...

Rebooting your Android phone is often recommended as one of the ways to remove any temporary bottlenecks in the phone's performance, as it clears the memory, closes any unused apps running in the ...

Everyone knows you’re not supposed to use the power button to shut down your computer, right? You’re supposed to shut down from within Windows, by clicking the Start button, then Shut Down. Actually, ...