Sometimes, physical buttons are the way to go.

Small side buttons can do more than you think—use these hidden shortcuts that make everyday tasks faster and easier.

It’s now possible to set your iPad’s volume buttons to reflect that you are holding the tablet in landscape rather than portrait. It’s an optional change, but one many iPad users have been asking for.

For all the software bells and whistles that iOS gives the iPhone, it's easy to take the simplest features—such as the volume buttons—for granted. Millions of iPhone users press these buttons every ...

When Huawei introduced the Mate 30 Pro, the virtual volume controls quickly became one of the more controversial aspects of the design and functionality, as they didn’t work well enough to be an ...

There is more to your iPhone's volume buttons than meets the eye. Users are going wild after recently finding the sound buttons activate eight features, like snapping photos, shooting videos and ...

Will was the Phones Editor at Android Police from August 2022 to May 2025, which usually meant his desk was covered in a dozen different smartphones at any given time. Prior to that, he was a news ...