169470786 story An anonymous reader shares a column:
Every major phone manufacturer is guilty of a serious crime, and I won't be quiet about it any longer: they stole the power button from us. Apple, Google, Samsung: guilty, guilty, guilty. Long-pressing the power button used to bring up an option to turn your phone off, but then these companies decided to get cute and make this a shortcut to summon their digital assistant. This is bad and wrong, and I'm politely demanding that these companies return what they took from us. Look, I get the logic. When phone screens got bigger, physical buttons like Apple's home button were axed, and existing buttons had to pick up the slack. In the iPhone X, Apple re-homed the Siri function to the power button. Since then, turning your iPhone off has required pressing a combination of buttons. If you make the fatal mistake of long-pressing the power button in hopes of turning your phone off, Siri will start listening to you as you curse about how the power button doesn't work how it should anymore. And woe to you if you don't hold down the right button combination long enough -- you'll take a screenshot that you didn't want and will have to delete later. It's just as bad on Samsung and Google phones. 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, but if you want a side key option, you can. 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. The volume up key and power button can be pressed on a phone. If you don't press the volume down key, you'll get a screen shot, which will make you feel stupid when you see it. You have to hold the power button and volume down to use it.
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