topic Re: After update today, can't turn off phone in Galaxy S22

[Galaxy S22] Can't Turn off My Phone after Update

mwr1 — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 22:57:55 GMT

My S22 updated this morning. Settings says it's now running Android 15 and One UI 7.0. After the update, when I press and hold the lower button on the right side of the phone (which always turned off the phone), now I get an "Ask Gemini" window. I've held the button down for a LONG time and the phone still won't turn off. Has anyone else experienced this? If so, have you found a way to turn off your phone?

Re: After update today, can't turn off phone

LongHiker — Thu, 01 May 2025 20:03:40 GMT

Swipe down from the right side of the screen and click the power icon. You can then select Power off or Restart.

To change the side button to power off your phone, go to phone settings -> Advanced features -> Side button

Re: After update today, can't turn off phone

cooldude1 — Thu, 01 May 2025 20:45:50 GMT

To turn your phone off on one ui 7 you need to click volume down and power

Re: After update today, can't turn off phone

mwr1 — Thu, 01 May 2025 20:52:20 GMT

I liked this one best and it worked: phone settings -> Advanced features -> Side button Thanks!

Re: After update today, can't turn off phone

requa — Thu, 01 May 2025 21:54:35 GMT

Agreed, and thank you for pointing this option out. I have not warmed to using an AI assistant or any other digital assistant, but I do restart my phone occasionally. I made this change as well.

Re: After update today, can't turn off phone

officialguy — Thu, 01 May 2025 22:12:53 GMT

At this point, it's just faster to say "Bixby. Turn phone off"

Re: After update today, can't turn off phone

XJCAR — Fri, 02 May 2025 00:37:31 GMT

I'm still waiting for the update. You would think that unlocked devices purchased directly from Samsung would be 1st, but nope. I'm still glad to see that it's making is way, though.

Re: After update today, can't turn off phone

LongHiker — Fri, 02 May 2025 02:31:45 GMT

@XJCAR "You would think that unlocked devices purchased directly from Samsung would be 1st..."

The update still goes to your carrier and they must upload it to their update server before you can get it.

Re: Re: After update today, can't turn off phone

kennymarlin98 — Fri, 02 May 2025 10:56:59 GMT

I was about to ask the same thing. I'm on the US Factory Unlocked S22+(SM-S906U1) and still no update yet.

Re: After update today, can't turn off phone

mwr1 — Fri, 02 May 2025 15:47:46 GMT

Just a comment to say how much I HATE the new UI. For example, on the first screen you see it used to display the time as HH:MM the way we're used to seeing it. Now it displays HH and MM separately, the HH above the MM. And they actually paid someone to do that.

Re: Re: After update today, can't turn off phone

Manther304 — Tue, 06 May 2025 15:48:26 GMT

Ya,it's horrible. I assume they intentionally meant to ruin these phones to force people to upgrade.

Re: After update today, can't turn off phone

mwr1 — Wed, 07 May 2025 06:30:44 GMT

I found a way to change the clock format back to the way it was. It's in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbRkyPOaahk

Re: After update today, can't turn off phone

Piankhi — Thu, 08 May 2025 15:40:23 GMT

My Mom's phone got this update. The "Side button" settings page fails to load. Even after reboot. Samsung is making her want to stop using a cellphone entirely.

Re: After update today, can't turn off phone

LongHiker — Thu, 08 May 2025 16:11:09 GMT

@Piankhi Did you wipe the device cache partition after the update? I recommend that you do this after every device update. It wipes out incompatible or outdated cache information which might be incompatible after the update. It does not erase any user data nor applications.

To wipe the device cache partition:

1. Power off your device.
2. Power up while holding down the Volume up key and the Side key until the Samsung logo appears.
3. An Android recovery menu will appear.
4. Use the Volume down key to scroll down to Wipe cache partition.
5. Click the side key to select it.
6. Use the Volume down key to scroll down to Yes.
7. Click the side key to select it. The Cache will be wiped almost instantaneously.
8. Click the side key to select "Reboot system now"

Re: After update today, can't turn off phone

Members_E1kde4j — Sat, 10 May 2025 13:51:16 GMT

Thanks.