Phone manufacturers: please give us the power button back

I will no longer be silent about the fact that every major phone manufacturer stole the power button from us.

The companies decided to get cute and make this a way to summon their digital assistant after long pressing the power button. I want these companies to return what they stole from us.

The logic is there. Existing buttons had to pick up the slack when physical buttons were axed. The power button was the new home of the Siri function. Since then, you have to press a number of buttons to turn your phone off. If you make the mistake of pressing the power button in order to turn your phone off, you will be listening to your voice as you curse about how the power button isn't working anymore. If you don't hold down the right button combination long enough, you'll have to take aScreenshot that you didn't want and will have to deleted later.

It is just as bad on phones made by both companies. A prompt to say sorry in Spanish was brought up by long pressing the power button on the phone. No, internet search engine. You should apologize. When I made the mistake of pressing the power button on the S22 phones, they all tried to set up Bixby. If you want to change it back to the power menu, you can do it at either of the two companies. The phone should be turned off when long-pressing the power button.

The button combination to turn your phone off isn't the same on every phone. You can get to shutdown options by pressing and holding the power and volume keys at the same time. It is a short press of the power and volume buttons. If you make a mistake by pressing the volume down key, you will take a picture of it and post it in your photo gallery. You have to hold the power button and volume down to use it.

Every phone has a different button combination that turns it off.

Most people only need to remember one of these combinations because they don't switch phones often. I'm aware of that. Most people don't turn their phone off. It is also fine. It is reasonable to ask for a power button that does the job it is named for. We all know what it's really for, so you can re-label it as the "sleep / wake button" or something else. We should agree on a standard combination of buttons to press if we can't have that.

I think it is up to us as individuals to save ourselves from the power-button chaos that my plea is in vain.

If you use an iPad, the best way to turn it off is to go to settings > accessibility > side button and select off under the "Press and hold to speak" option. Under the "Press and hold" option, you can choose to turn off the power on your phone. If you press and hold the power button, you'll be able to turn off the assistant.