Android 16 finally unlocked functionality that's been common on Samsung's One UI for a while now. I'm referring to the ability to customize what a double-press of the power button does, which, with ...

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 ...

The Google Wallet app can now be opened with a new shortcut in Android 16 Beta 2. The new method means the Quick Settings button is no longer the fastest way, though it might come as an unnatural ...

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 ...

I bought my first almost-smartphone — a Nokia 6610 — in 2002, and even back then, mobile phones had a wonderful, intuitive, simple technology to engage or disengage with them called a power button.