Your phone's power, or side button as Samsung calls it, is probably one of the most-used buttons, though you might only be using to turn the display on and off. But it can do much more, from launching ...

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 ...

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 ...

Irene Okpanachi is a Features writer covering Android devices, laptops, portable projectors, VR headsets, software, and AI recorders for Android Police and Talk Android. She has five years' experience ...

Google is working on a new shortcut that’ll let you launch the default wallet app with a double press of the power button. Some code for this feature can be found in the latest Android beta and ...

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 ...

Samsung lets Galaxy phone users activate voice typing via the power button, and it’s available on older devices too. This could be useful if you think the voice typing icon is in an inconvenient place ...