Starting or powering down your smartphone can be incredibly frustrating when the power button has broken. Fortunately, there are a few easy hacks that you can implement in order to restart the phone ...

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 ...

I don’t want to talk to Siri, Google, or Bixby. Please just make the power button do what it’s supposed to do. I don’t want to talk to Siri, Google, or Bixby. Please just make the power button do what ...

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 ...

Android phones and tablets come in all shapes and sizes, and they're often among the best smartphones on the market. However, even the best tech still runs into issues sometimes. A reboot is usually ...

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Depending on which iPhone you have, your smartphone will have two volume buttons, a side button, a Ring/Silent switch, or an Action button, and if it's an iPhone SE or older iPhone, a Home button.