Dear. Android – Leave. The. Power. Button. Alone

I hate my samsung phone with a passion i also had while hating my iphone before it.<p>The stupid thing keeps trying to get me killed, is unresponsive to the most obvious urgings, and insists upon joking around when i need some info NOW.<p>I also have issues with most map apps and using them for navigation. It seems that the UI designers for these things never consider difficulty in seeing the crucial details on a small screen at high velocities with small glances.<p>I need the remaining KM until that turn, in large numbers, Google.<p>At the end of the day, despite being an allegedly technical person, I find smart phones to be rather difficult to use for their intended purposes. I have had immense difficulty in answering phone calls with mysterious swipes that at least this horrid samsung willfully ignores, laughing at me in derision, no doubt.<p>I don&#x27;t get along with smart phones.

Despite the title, iPhones do this too as noted, and importantly it was a change made after removing the fingerprint reader. And of course in perfect Apple fashion you don&#x27;t get a choice. I hate it. I still fail to turn my phone off sometimes. But also I will probably eventually get used to it, and people who started using iPhones after the change won&#x27;t experience it as a change.

I don’t get this point of this article. Turning off your phone is an infrequent activity. Using a two button combo to accomplish this seems perfectly fine. It’s not like a two second hold is that inconvenient, and once you learn it in your phone… how often are you turning off other people’s phones?<p>Relegating the side button to only function as power off and nothing else is not a good default behavior, in my view. For power users, sure… let them configure it to do that, I guess.

Why waste an entire button to just be responsible for powering the device on or off? It&#x27;s not something I do very often at all and if can be repurposed as a functional button then I am all for it.<p>It&#x27;s especially helpful as an accessibility option.

Part of being a luddite who doesn&#x27;t discard perfectly good tech when newer and shinier gadgets come out is that I get surprised hearing about negative trends like this.<p>Really, the power button doesn&#x27;t work any more?

We really need a third operating system. One that applies common sense like: power means power, and direct have integrated ad tracking.

This is such an odd rant. My old Nokia occasionally restarted in my pocket somehow, I&#x27;m happy Android has found a better solution.<p>Besides, the power shortcut is the most used (and appreciated) function on my phone. I&#x27;m using it to quickly open the camera.

I have my Android phone&#x27;s power button set up to turn on&#x2F;off the flashlight feature with a double click. It&#x27;s immensely convenient. I have a low-end Samsung A23 5G.

HahahahhahahajajjajahahahahahBNnNnbn. The consumer speaks. You&#x27;ll get what you want if you&#x27;re upset, so keep it up. :)