The Samsung Galaxy S25, with the ability of One UI 7, enables you to customise the facet button to fit your wants. It could do way over simply flip in your display or open your digicam.

The place Is the Facet Button?

By the “facet button”, I imply the decrease button on the precise facet of your S25, under the bigger quantity button. It is in the identical place irrespective of whether or not you personal the bottom mannequin, Plus, or Extremely.

You may realize it because the “energy button”, since this was once the first perform of the button on older Samsung telephones. When you can remap it to that, the ability choices are simply accessible by the fast settings panel, which you get to by flattening from the top-right of your display (assuming you have not changed the S25’s default behavior).

What Does the Facet Button Do?

By default, the facet button has the next behaviors:

• Activate the cellphone should you press and maintain the button when the cellphone is off.
• Flip the display on or off should you press the button briefly.
• Open the digicam should you double press the button.
• Open Gemini should you press and maintain the button.

It is these latter two behaviors you could customise in your S25. Whereas older Samsung telephones operating One UI 6 provide some flexibility too, like the power to open a particular app with a double press, it is taken to the subsequent degree with One UI 7.

Merely put, One UI is Samung’s unique software program that gives options to your cellphone. Totally different variations help totally different options; on the time of writing, the Galaxy S25 is the one cellphone operating One UI 7, however some older gadgets might be up to date to that model sooner or later. To verify your model, go to Settings > About Telephone > Software program Info.

The way to Customise the Facet Button

To start customizing what your facet button does while you press it, open Settings and go to Superior Options > Facet Button. Right here, choose both “Double Press” or “Lengthy Press” to customise that motion.

Double Press

You have got the next choices for double press:

• Digicam
• Torch
• Magnifier
• Voice Recorder
• Samsung Seize
• Modes and Routines
• Apps

A few of these choices have a cog subsequent to them, which signifies you’ll be able to choose a particular performance.

You may faucet the “On” slider to disable the double press perform totally.

For instance, reasonably than solely with the ability to open the Digicam app in its default mode, you’ll be able to select “File Video”, “Take Portrait”, or “Take Selfie.” Or for Samsung Seize, you’ll be able to select between “AI Choose”, “Display screen Recorder”, or “Screenshots.”

The “Modes and Routines” possibility is very highly effective, since you’ll be able to stack a number of actions. For instance, you would bind the button to the Sleep routine and customise that to allow don’t disturb mode, activate the attention consolation defend, and switch off the All the time On Show.

Personally, I’ve gone for opening the digicam as a result of it means I can shortly take snaps and never miss a second.

Lengthy Press

The choices for an extended press are restricted in comparison with a double press. They’re:

• Digital Assistant
• Bixby
• Energy Off Menu

By default, the digital assistant is Google, although you’ll be able to change this to a different supplier if in case you have one put in.

Personally, I am a bit old-fashioned—I do not want fast entry to an AI assistant, so I’ve opted for the ability off menu, although I hardly ever want to make use of it. I hope One UI 7 evolves so I can bind the lengthy press to one thing else.

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I am actually happy with my Galaxy S25 and a part of that’s due to how versatile the software program is. I do not like having buttons on telephones you could’t do something useful with (I am taking a look at you, Bixby button), so it is nice that Samsung has made the facet button customizable with no need third-party apps.