{"id":228623,"date":"2026-03-28T13:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T17:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/28\/android-killed-the-power-button-heres-how-to-take-it-back\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T14:45:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T18:45:09","slug":"android-killed-the-power-button-heres-how-to-take-it-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/28\/android-killed-the-power-button-heres-how-to-take-it-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Android killed the power button\u2014here&#8217;s how to take it back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.howtogeek.com\/android-killed-the-power-button-heres-how-to-take-it-back\/\">Android killed the power button\u2014here&#8217;s how to take it back<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.howtogeek.com\/android-killed-the-power-button-heres-how-to-take-it-back\/\">https:\/\/www.howtogeek.com\/android-killed-the-power-button-heres-how-to-take-it-back\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-28 13:30:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.howtogeek.com\">www.howtogeek.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The humble power button has been a standard feature on phones since before they were smart. For most of that time, the button has been used for, you know, power. That changed when virtual assistants arrived on Android phones\u2014you don\u2019t have to live with it.<\/p>\n<p>It wasn\u2019t until around 2019 that Android phones started messing with the long-time functionality of the power button. Up until that point, long-pressing the button would bring up familiar options to power off or restart the phone. Now, almost every Android device launches Gemini or some other virtual assistant instead. Let\u2019s fix that.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"why-did-this-happen\">\n                        Why did this happen?<br \/>\n               <\/h2>\n<h3 id=\"virtual-assistants-take-center-stage\">\n            Virtual assistants take center stage<br \/>\n    <\/h3>\n<p>        Credit:\u00a0Lucas Gouveia\/How-To Geek | Chayanit\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n<p>The Samsung Galaxy S20 series is largely responsible for the death of the power button as we knew it. After the previous three generations included a dedicated Bixby button, Samsung decided to co-opt the power button instead. Google and other manufacturers quickly followed suit in the following years.<\/p>\n<p>Long-pressing the power button on the Galaxy S20 activated Bixby instead of the power menu. Nowadays, the button launches Gemini on both Galaxy and Pixel devices by default. Samsung refers to it as the \u201cSide Button,\u201d but Google has never bothered calling it anything other than what we all know it as: the power button.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.howtogeek.com\/android-killed-the-power-button-heres-how-to-take-it-back\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Android killed the power button\u2014here&#8217;s how to take it back https:\/\/www.howtogeek.com\/android-killed-the-power-button-heres-how-to-take-it-back\/ Publish Date: 2026-03-28 13:30:00&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":228624,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static0.howtogeekimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/wm\/2026\/03\/pixel-10-side-view-with-power-button-circled.jpg?w=1600&h=900&fit=crop","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[70,72,86],"class_list":["post-228623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-android","tag-google","tag-pixel","tag-samsung"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228623"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228623"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":228625,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228623\/revisions\/228625"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}