How To Get Rid Of Bixby S20

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1 feature you're guaranteed to notice on Samsung Galaxy phones is Bixby, its in-house AI assistant. Bixby isn't everyone'southward loving cup of tea, though, so you might have a hard time truly enjoying your new Galaxy handset if you aren't a fan. Lucky for you, afterwards post-obit just a few quick steps, you tin can disable Bixby altogether on your Samsung Milky way phone.

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How to disable the Bixby button on Galaxy S21, S20, Note ten, and Note twenty phones

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The Bixby button is placed right beneath the volume keys on the right side of Samsung's Galaxy S21, S20, and Annotation 20 phones and the left side of the Note x phones. It's also the power push button for those phones. Bixby is activated past long-pressing on that button, simply you may simply want it to be your power button. Hither's how to disable Bixby birthday on that button.

Swipe downward on the screen to bring upwardly the notifications menu, and and so tap on the ability icon on the top correct side of the screen.
Y'all should see the power carte popular up on the screen, along with the Side Key settings selection. Tap on it to keep.
You should see the settings, which include the Press and Hold options. There's a Wake Bixby setting that's on past default, but you tin tap on the Ability off menu selection instead to disable Bixby.

That's information technology! Now you can printing the side push to your centre's content, and information technology won't actuate Bixby. Feels good, doesn't information technology?

How to disable the Bixby button (sort of) on older Galaxy phones

If you own a Galaxy phone older than the S20 or Note 10 with Bixby installed, here's how to require a double press to activate Bixby on those handsets. It doesn't disable Bixby altogether, but it'south amend than naught. Samsung did allow users to disable Bixby on those phones at one point, just a software update has since eliminated that feature.

Note: Instructions for the rest of the article were put together using an older Samsung Galaxy S10 Plus running Android 11.

Open the Settings.
Scroll down and tap on the Advanced Features choice.
Tap on the Bixby Key option.
Finally, tap on the Double Press to open Bixby selection.
Yous tin also choice what a single printing does.

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How to disable the "Hi, Bixby" feature

For almost people, Bixby Vox is probably the most useful Bixby feature. It's an easy way to inquire your telephone a unproblematic question without first unlocking your phone. Some people aren't big fans of Bixby Voice — Google Assistant is much more useful in specific scenarios — and luckily, there's an easy way to disable it.

Open the Bixby app.
Tap the Hamburger carte button on the left side of the screen.
Striking the settings gear icon on the top of the screen.
Tap on the Voice Wake Upward option.
Toggle the Wake with "Howdy, Bixby" choice off. You can as well turn information technology on here, if it'due south off.

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Just sign out of your Samsung account!

You can ignore this section if yous happen to accept advantage of your Samsung account in whatever way. If, like me, y'all don't really apply Samsung'due south dedicated services, merely removing your Samsung account also stops Bixby from working! This is a simple solution that volition save you lot the headaches of finding specific settings and going through more than complex processes.

Get into the Settings app.
Tap on your name/e-mail on top.
Gyre down to the button and tap on Sign out.

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How to disable Samsung Free

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It'south hard to find a good reason to use Samsung Free (which replaced Bixby Domicile and Samsung Daily). Samsung Gratuitous is the vertically scrolling list of content that lives on your left-almost home screen. It'south the list of content that shows y'all "useful" things. The problem is most things it shows aren't that slap-up. If you agree with usa, here's how to get rid of it!

Long-printing on an empty area (somewhere with no icons or widgets) on your Milky way phone home screen to access your home screen settings. Yous tin also pinch inward with ii fingers to get to this screen.
Swipe over to the left-most dwelling house screen, where you'll notice Samsung Free.
Tap the toggle at the top of the screen to disable Samsung Free.

To re-enable Samsung Free, perform steps one and two again, so toggle the same Samsung Free selection on.

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