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 ...

Considering how often you likely need to use it, having a non-functioning power button on an iPad can feel extremely limiting. While tapping the screen or hitting the Home button can wake the device, ...

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.

Android 16 Beta 2 introduces a new “double press power button” menu. This menu lets you choose between launching the camera app or the default wallet app when double pressing the power button.

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 ...