Back with the Galax y S8, Samsung used to have a side button dedicated to Bixby. Recently, the smartphone maker has ditched the dedicated button to usurp the power button's role by defaulting to ...

I recently found a few strings in the Samsung Keyboard app that suggested the ability to activate voice dictation via the power button. It turns out this feature and the strings aren’t actually ...

Because of this, the power button is now known as the “side” button. If you want to turn off the Samsung Galaxy S24, you will need to use a button combination, instead.

When Samsung launched the Galaxy S25 series in January, it also added Gemini as the default AI assistant when long-pressing the power button, with its own Bixby assistant taking a back seat.