How many of you know about Bixby on Samsung Galaxy Smartphones? Have you ever wondered how to disable Bixby or have you ever tried searching on disabling Bixby on your Samsung smartphone? Some may be wondering what Bixby is?
People are looking for ways to disable Bixby ever since Samsung has announced the Galaxy S8 with this virtual assistant. This assistant helps you to make your most of the common task easy. But the problem here is people often accidentally press the Bixby Key at the side of the Samsung Galaxy S8, Galaxy S9, Note 8, and Note 9 and other Samsung variants including Bixby.
This article is about How to disable Bixby on Samsung Galaxy Smartphone. If you are looking for the solution on how to deal with this Bixby stuff then this article can help sort out the problem for you. Without any further delay let’s have a look.
What’s Inside?
- What is Bixby?
- Why People Disable Bixby?
- Section A: For Galaxy Note 10 and 10+
- How to disable Bixby Button?
- Remove Bixby from the home screen.
- Section B: For S8, S9, S10, Note 8, and Note 9
- Disable Bixby Button.
- How to remove Bixby Home from the home screen?
- Disable Bixby Voice.
What is Bixby?
Bixby is a virtual assistant by Samsung Electronics. Bixby is the voice-powered digital assistant introduced by Samsung on 20 March 2017. This feature was introduced on the Samsung Galaxy Smartphone S8, and S8+ as well as the Samsung Galaxy Tab. Besides these smartphones S9, S10, Note 8, Note 9, and Note 10 are some of the devices including Bixby. Furthermore, Bixby can also be found on Mid-range Samsung smartphones and tablets including Samsung Galaxy A30, A50, A70, A7, A8, J5, J7, J3, etc. Bixby can also be sideloaded on Galaxy devices running Android Nougat.
Why People Disable Bixby?
No doubt, Bixby helps you to accomplish most of the common tasks on your phone. But the problem is its placement. The placement of the Bixby button is right under the volume buttons opposite to the power button which often leads to the accidental presses that result in unintended Bixby launches. Bixby comes with four-mode Bixby Home, Bixby Vision, Bixby Voice, and Bixby Reminders.
Here we have divided the following article into the two-section, Section A and Section B. The first section will cover the process to disable Bixby on Galaxy Note 10 and 10+ while Section B covers the steps for S8, S9, S10, Note 8 and Note 9.
Section A: For Galaxy Note 10 and 10+
As mentioned above the Section A provides information on how to disable Bixby from Galaxy Note 10 and 10+, without further delay here’s how to do.
How to disable the Bixby Button?
Bixby is turned on by default in Galaxy Note 10. You can activate the Bixby voice with a long-press of the power button while double-pressing the power button activates the Bixby Home app. To disable both of this functionality follow these instructions below.
- Swipe down the Notifications Shade.
- Next, tap the Power button from the quick settings panel.
- Tap Side Key Settings.
- Now select Power off menu from Press and Hold
- To turn Bixby voice either select Quick launch camera or Open app from Double press
How to remove Bixby Home from the Home screen?
To remove Bixby Home from the Home screen follow the instruction below.
- Hold down the empty space for a while until the menu appears.
- Swipe left to find Bixby Home.
- Disable Bixby Home.
Section B: For S8, S9, S10, Note 8 and Note 9
As mentioned above, Section B contains information that helps the user to disable Bixby for S8, S9, S10, Note 8 and Note 9.
How to disable the Bixby Button?
As we discussed Bixby button is placed in an extremely inconvenient spot, right below the volume key which results in the accidental pressing of the buttons. It can be easily disabled and can be done in only a few steps. Here’s how to do it.
- Open Settings.
- Tap on Advanced features.
- Next, tap on Bixby Key.
- Select, Double press to open Bixby.
How to remove Bixby Home from the home screen?
By default, Bixby can be easily run from the home screen. Just you have to do is slide to the left panel. If you are thinking of removing Bixby from the home screen then here’s how to do.
- Hold down the empty space for a while until the menu appears.
- Swipe left to find Bixby Home.
- Disable Bixby Home.
How to disable Bixby Voice?
Bixby voice may be the most useful Bixby feature for most of the people. You can easily ask simple questions to your phone. For some people, Google Assistant can be much more useful and it is. So for such a scenario, you can turn off the Bixby Voice. To turn off Bixby’s voice follow the given instructions below.
- Swipe to the left-most home screen.
- Tap on the three-dot menu button.
- Tap settings.
- Scroll down to find Bixby Voice.
- Tap on the toggle to turn off Bixby Voice.
This is how you disable Bixby for your Samsung Galaxy Smartphones. Hope this solution helped in solving your confusion regarding Bixby and its functionalities. If you have any queries then feel free to comment below.
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