eli5: How does a phone/computer process the power button being pressed if it’s off?

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I tried google and all I got was “pressing the power button to turn it off won’t damage it anymore.”

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There’s a little bit of standby power in every device, as long as it’s plugged in.

Pressing the power button completes a circuit; that circuit uses the standby power to energize other circuits, which energizes still *other* circuits until the device is operating at full capacity again.

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