Use of Samsung Bixby 🔥🔥🔥 (Everything You Need to Know)

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There is no doubt that Samsung Bixby, the artificially intelligent assistant found on the company’s flagship phones, is quite different from Apple’s Siri, Amazon’s Alexa, and Google Assistant. Samsung’s take attempts to anticipate your needs and serve up contextualized reminders. Bixby edits photos, sends messages, and composes emails on command. Anything you do on your phone via touch, you should be able to do via voice with Bixby. It can also control some smart home appliances and Internet of Things (IoT) devices, including smart fridges, TVs, and dozens of other Samsung devices.

Here’s how to set up Bixby, what’s new with Bixby, and everything you can do with it.

Getting Started with Bixby Voice

Pulling up Samsung Bixby and Bixby Voice couldn’t be easier. The Galaxy S10, S10 Plus, S10e, S9, Galaxy S9 Plus, Note 9, Galaxy S8, and Note 8 range all feature a dedicated Bixby button on the left side, just below the volume rocker. Tapping on it brings up Bixby Home, the assistant’s hub and setup screen.

If you’re using the Galaxy Note 10 range, then you may have noticed you don’t have a Bixby key. Don’t worry, it’s still easy to use Bixby. Just press-and-hold your power button and Bixby will pop-up.

Changing settings

There’s more to Bixby than a single app or screen though. Rather, the Galaxy S10 and S10 Plus ship with three incarnations of Samsung’s Assistant: Bixby Home, Bixby Vision, and Bixby Voice. Unfortunately, that means Bixby’s settings are spread across these different sections of Bixby. Here’s the general gist of which settings you’ll find where.

If you swipe right across your home screen to access Bixby Home you can access the settings for your interactive cards by tapping the three dots in the top-right and hitting Cards. From here, you can add the cards you want to see, or take away those you don’t. Tapping Settings via the same three-dot menu not only allows you change the email address your Bixby Home is tied to, but also allows you to change your content providers — specifically, it allows you to send location data to a couple of apps to provide customized and helpful data. At the moment, this is restricted to Uber and Fourspace — so you can see where you can check in, or how long it’ll take to get an Uber from your current location.

Bixby Voice houses most of the settings, and you can access it by tapping your Bixby Key, or by long-pressing your power button on the Note 10 range. Tap the three dots again and you’ll find a wealth of further options, including Tutorials, Quick commands, and Settings. Settings allows you to change everything from your voice style, to whether Bixby responds when your phone is locked. Quick commands allows you to tie actions and phrases together. For example, you could set the assistant to turn off all lights and set an alarm when you say the command “I’m going to bed.”

Crucially, it also contains options for changing the Bixby Key’s use. If you don’t like Bixby and you just want to get rid of it, you can remap the Bixby key. While you used to be able to disable the Bixby key, that’s not been possible since the One UI Android 9.0 Pie update, and Bixby-haters have been forced to relegate Samsung’s A.I. to a double-press of the key.

Bixby Voice

Bixby Voice is like Siri on steroids — in fact, it can rap insults at Siri in Korean. Not only that, but it’s built to adapt to a person’s manner of speaking — rather than the other way around. According to Samsung, the assistant will be able to understand “Show me today’s weather,” “What’s the weather like today?,” or “What’s the forecast today?” — all variations of the same command.

Once you’ve installed the software and completed Samsung’s Bixby Voice tutorial, you’re free to invoke the voice assistant at your leisure. You can activate it by saying, “Hey, Bixby” or by holding down the Bixby button while you talk. If you don’t want to look like you’re talking to your phone in public, you can talk to Bixby by holding your phone up to your ear, like a phone call.

Bixby can perform tasks like sending text messages via the Galaxy S10’s Messages app and responding to basic questions about the weather, upcoming meetings, sports scores, and movie showtimes. But that’s just the tip of the iceberg — the voice assistant also works across apps like the Galaxy S10’s dialer, settings menus, camera app, contacts list, and gallery.

In addition to the basics, Bixby can also handle complicated tasks like opening an app in a split-screen view, rotating misaligned photos, reminding you where you parked, playing videos on a nearby TV, and composing emails. It can gather all the photos you took last week into a new album labeled “Vacation” and share it with your friends, or take a selfie and text it to someone. And it can perform two-step actions like, “Open Uber and rate my driver 5 stars,” or “Open Instagram and post my most recent photo.”

There are also some pretty sweet hands-free functions via Bixby. For example, you can ask Bixby to “read out the latest messages,” and it’ll read you your texts or emails, assuming you use native Samsung apps. In short, Bixby allows you to use your voice to easily complete the most basic tasks on your phone.

Bixby Voice is also customizable — you can change the gender of the assistant on the fly, and it supports shortcuts: You can shorten the lengthy commands you use most often to a single word or phrase.

Samsung says Bixby supports more than 3,000 commands, including app-specific commands in Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Uber, Gmail, Google Maps, and more. The company is continually improving the app and adding addition third-party app support and more commands.

Bixby Home

Samsung calls Bixby Home a “social stream for your device,” and that’s more or less accurate. It’s a unified card-like interface of reminders, contextually relevant information, and social media updates — sort of like a cross between Google Now and HTC’s BlinkFeed.

Bixby Home can be customized to a degree. You can alter or pin cards by tapping the two lines in the upper-right corner of an individual Bixby Home card. If you want to get rid of a card, swipe it to the right and you can choose to hide it for now, dismiss it forever, or cancel your swipe.

Samsung’s default apps supply most of Bixby Home’s content. You’ll see a local weather forecast, activity stats from Samsung’s Health app, and local files in the Galaxy S9’s Music app. If you’ve linked your Google Calendar and Gmail to your Samsung device, then it’ll be able to pull data from those too.

The list of third-party services that support Bixby Home is growing. A Spotify card provides one-tap access to your playlists and music, and full support is on its way. CNN and Flipboard show trending news stories from around the web. Facebook, Foursquare, and Twitter show the latest updates from your social circles. Uber will show your recent rides.

It even works with Samsung’s SmartThings app to serve up buttons that control smart light bulbs and door locks, shortcuts to the apps you use most frequently, and more — all based on the time of day, your location, and other factors

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