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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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Restarting your iPhone is usually the quickest cure for everyday annoyances, from apps freezing up to network hiccups. In fact, you should probably be restarting your iPhone more often than you think.

Irene Okpanachi is a Features writer, covering mobile and PC guides that help you understand your devices. She has five years' experience in the Tech, E-commerce, and Food niches. Particularly, the ...

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.

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 ...