Phone manufacturers: please give us the power button back

Dec 24 2022 by The Verge

 
It’s time to fight the power. | Photo by Allison Johnson / The Verge

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...

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