Key Takeaways
- Entry the ability menu in your Samsung Galaxy telephone by way of the Fast Settings panel or a button mixture.
- Use the quantity down button and aspect button concurrently to show off or restart your telephone.
- Cease Bixby from being triggered when holding the aspect button by altering the settings within the energy menu.
If it has been a couple of years because you upgraded you Samsung Galaxy telephone, you might be in for a shock the primary time you attempt to flip it off or restart it holding within the aspect button. That shock? Samsung’s digital assistant, Bixby. For higher or worse, there are actually a number of methods to entry your Samsung telephone’s — be it a Galaxy S22, Galaxy S23 or the brand new Galaxy S24 — energy menu.
Beneath I am going to stroll you thru easy methods to entry the ability menu utilizing the Fast Settings panel, a hidden button mixture, and even present you easy methods to eliminate Bixby altogether. Or if the concept of studying a brand new technique looks like an excessive amount of work, you may at all times simply inform Bixby to show off or restart your telephone after you inevitably set off the assistant.
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The way to energy off your Galaxy telephone utilizing the Fast Settings panel
There is a fast and simple solution to entry your telephone’s energy controls by way of the Fast Settings panel. You simply must know the place to look. Listed below are the steps to search out it:
- When your telephone is unlocked, swipe down from the highest of the display to disclose the Fast Settings panel.
- On the prime of the display might be an influence button. Faucet it.
- Doing so will show a number of buttons, together with Energy off, Restart, Emergency name and Medical information.
- Faucet the icon for the motion you need to take. Then choose the icon once more when prompted.
There is a secret button mixture to show off or restart your Galaxy telephone
If you cannot entry the Fast Settings panel or hold forgetting it is there, you may nonetheless use the bodily buttons on the aspect of your Galaxy telephone to show it off or restart it. As a substitute of holding within the aspect button, which now launches Bixby, you have to maintain within the quantity down button and the aspect button on the identical time. The hot button is to not be too fast, as a brief press will take a screenshot. As a substitute, maintain them in till you see the ability menu.
The way to force-restart your Galaxy telephone
In case your telephone has crashed or turns into unresponsive, you need to use the identical button combo as above. Merely press-and-hold the aspect button and quantity down buttons for roughly 10 seconds. It is best to really feel slightly buzz and your telephone will reboot, with out the necessity to choose any software program buttons (which would not be doable on account of a crash).
Cease triggering Bixby when holding the aspect button
By default, a press-and-hold of the aspect button in your Samsung Galaxy telephone will set off Bixby, letting you discuss to and work together with Samsung’s digital assistant. If you do not need that or need to restore the ability choices that you just had obtainable on older Samsung units, that is doable too:
- Use one of many strategies outlined above — fast settings panel or the button mixture — to entry the ability menu.
- On the backside of the web page, faucet on Aspect button settings.
- Find the Press and maintain part and faucet on Energy off menu to ditch Bixby.
On this display you can even change what occurs whenever you double-press the aspect button, which by default is about to launch the digital camera app. Nonetheless, you may change it to open any app of your selecting.
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