That leaves the sleep /
wake button as one of the few physical buttons on the phone, besides the volume.
He discovered in Apple's source code, presumably from the iOS 11 beta, that there is a gesture to invoke Siri by holding the iPhone 8 lock button or the Sleep /
Wake button as Apple officially calls it.
Not exact matches
(Granted, I left the transmission in comfort mode most of the time, so
as not to
wake the baby, but you shouldn't have to push a
button before you're allowed to briskly pass slower traffic.)
This
button doubles
as another way to
wake the e-reader, and can power down the unit entirely.
I rarely pushed the BlackBerry Z10's
wake / sleep
button as swiping up to unlock the device was a much faster alternative.
By default,
waking up the Z10 is done by swiping from the BlackBerry logo towards the top of the device, which BlackBerry touts
as being a major difference between its Z10 and other similar devices
as they require pushing a
button and then unlocking the phone.
The power /
wake button sits along the top left of the phone
as does one speaker and a headphone jack.
It's fine when held in landscape mode — the rear edges can be used
as a tactile guide — but it's annoying when I want to quickly
wake the tablet from sleep, but have to pick it up first to reach the back instead of just tapping a
button on its side.
The power
button doubles
as another way to
wake the e-reader, and it can serve to power down the unit entirely.
I remember that day pretty well — I'd pressed the «publish now»
button the night before and in the morning
as I
woke, I saw from Amazon that the book was available to buy.
As a rule, few exhibitions of this kind have been so unabashedly topical, with the exception of the 1993 Whitney Biennial, which, held in the
wake of the L.A. riots, had admission
buttons by Daniel J. Martinez that read «I CA N'T IMAGINE EVER WANTING TO BE WHITE.»
Hurricane Sandy has proven to be a
wake - up call about the potential dangers posed by climate change, and it's even possible — though by no means certain — that we won't just hit the snooze
button and go back to sleep
as the images of destruction in New York and New Jersey begin to fade.
None of these alternatives work
as simply
as having the power
button do the job, but it's disheartening to see that Indian users will have to
wake up their phones and launch the camera manually.
Another possibility is the use of the retention clip
as a
wake - up
button for the pen itself.
As you probably noticed from looking through Event Viewer logs, there are four primary hardware devices that can
wake your PC: mice, keyboards, network adapters, and power
buttons (or laptop lids if that's what you're using).
Again, HTC's placement of this key, which also
wakes the screen, makes less sense than if it was placed along the right edge, but the
buttons are solid and responsive, coated in the same polycarbonate white
as the unit — no easily - chipped silver paint.
There's nothing visible on the bottom bezel, though the lower portion of the Infinity Display acts
as a pressure sensitive home
button that can be used to
wake the unit and return to the home screen.
As a side note, I've never appreciated iOS 10's Raise to
Wake feature so much until I got my AirPods, since I can bring up the lock screen play / pause, forward, and rewind
buttons so easily, and leave Siri out of it.
The right side is the
wake / unlock
button, with the left side housing the volume up / down
buttons as well
as the mute switch.
It doesn't stream anything without the
wake word and it has a physical mute
button that electrically disconnects the microphone but,
as with all groundbreaking technology, there is no doubt we are entering new territory here.
Our unit features one green
button on the right that acted
as a power and
wake button.
As Apple has ditched the celebrated home
button in iPhone X, you need to use its sleep /
wake button, Volume Up and volume down
button to reboot iPhone X and iPhone 8.
(The Power
button is also known
as the Sleep /
Wake button — it's the
button that normally turns your device's screen on and off.)
As for Siri, there's a larger
button on the side to
wake her, or you could always just use «Hey Siri» to summon her with your voice.
It's fine when held in landscape mode — the rear edges can be used
as a tactile guide — but it's annoying when I want to quickly
wake the tablet from sleep, but have to pick it up first to reach the back instead of just tapping a
button on its side.
What you can do, if you sense that the security of your locked iPhone is about to be forcibly compromised, is quickly press the Side
button (also known
as the Sleep /
Wake button) to trigger SOS / Power Off.
Hold down the Home
button and the Sleep /
Wake button until the Apple logo appears (also known
as the lock
button), and follow the steps presented.
The option to smack the
button may make more sense for those who don't want to ask Google Assistant to shut off the alarm by voice
as soon
as they
wake up.
According to him, there are codes suggesting that payment authentication using Face ID would require the user to confirm the transaction by double clicking on the side
button or the sleep /
wake button of the iPhone X. Grossman also found a reference to Apple possibly bringing Face ID to future iPad and iPod touch models,
as per MacRumors.
Tap to
wake: Don't reach for the power
button, just double tap the display and it will
wake up, so long
as your device has the hardware to support it.
As far as controls are concerned, the screen offers touch functionality, but its two buttons on the side control the Gear Fit 2 Pro's main interface features: one for waking the wearable and jumping into the main app menu, and the other, which is designated as the «go back» butto
As far
as controls are concerned, the screen offers touch functionality, but its two buttons on the side control the Gear Fit 2 Pro's main interface features: one for waking the wearable and jumping into the main app menu, and the other, which is designated as the «go back» butto
as controls are concerned, the screen offers touch functionality, but its two
buttons on the side control the Gear Fit 2 Pro's main interface features: one for
waking the wearable and jumping into the main app menu, and the other, which is designated
as the «go back» butto
as the «go back»
button.
As well as the multi-touch touchpad there will also be physical controls on there too - a traditional volume rocker as well as a home button and another for waking up Sir
As well
as the multi-touch touchpad there will also be physical controls on there too - a traditional volume rocker as well as a home button and another for waking up Sir
as the multi-touch touchpad there will also be physical controls on there too - a traditional volume rocker
as well as a home button and another for waking up Sir
as well
as a home button and another for waking up Sir
as a home
button and another for
waking up Siri.
The crown
button, located at the 2 o'clock position, acts
as a home
button, also
waking and dimming the screen.
The double tap to
wake should solve most users» beef with the power
button located at the top of the Laser,
as one only needs to tap the screen twice to turn on the screen.
It also acts
as a faster way to disable the feature if you have already turned off Bixby Home (and the Bixby
button),
as otherwise, you would need to use Bixby Voice to be able to go into Bixby Home so you can disable voice
wake - up.
Naturally, this
wakes the device, but it can not be used
as a home
button; the only functionality it has while the phone is awake is to hold it to lock the device.
It's fine when held in landscape mode — the rear edges can be used
as a tactile guide — but it's annoying when I want to quickly
wake it from sleep, but have to pick it up first to reach the back instead of just tapping a
button on its side.
As a quick test, try making a note of the remaining standby and usage times, then tap the sleep /
wake button and wait 10 minutes.
Three slight bumps appear on the sides of the device, which are most likely the sleep and
wake button, volume rockers, and a dedicated Bixby key,
as found on the Galaxy S8 and S8 Plus.
Tapping the screen just
wakes up the iPhone,
as a Home
button is no longer available.