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What is Bixby? Learn everything about its features and tips
Bixby is a virtual assistant that learns, evolves, and adapts to you. It learns your routines, helps you set up reminders based on time and location, and is built into your favorite apps. Bixby is the Samsung intelligence assistant first introduced on the Galaxy S8 and S8+.
You can interact with Bixby using your voice, text, or taps. It’s deeply integrated into the phone, meaning that Bixby is able to carry out a lot of the tasks you do on your phone. The dedicated Bixby button on the left is a handy way to call up Bixby. A short press on the Bixby button takes you to the Bixby main page.
How to use Bixby:
- From a Home screen, press and hold the Side key.
TIP- You can also access Bixby from the Apps list.
Bixby Routines:
You can use Bixby to show you information or change device settings based on where you are and what you are doing.
- From Settings, tap Advanced features > Bixby Routines.
Bixby Vision:
Bixby is integrated with your Camera, Gallery, and Internet apps to give you a deeper
understanding of what you see. It provides contextual icons for translation, QR code
detection, landmark recognition, or shopping.
Camera:
Bixby Vision is available on the Camera viewfinder to help understand what you see.
- From Camera, tap More > Bixby Vision and follow the prompts.
Gallery:
Bixby Vision can be used on pictures and images saved in the Gallery app.
- From the Gallery, tap a picture to view it.
- Tap Bixby Vision and follow the prompts.
Internet:
Bixby Vision can help you find out more about an image you find in the Internet app.
- From the Internet, touch and hold an image until a pop-up menu is displayed.
- Tap Bixby Vision and follow the prompts.
Bixby service availability may vary depending on the country. It recognizes selected languages and certain accents/dialects. The user interface may change and differ by a device availability of Bixby features and content providers may vary depending on country/carrier/language/device model/OS version.
Samsung Account log-in and data network connection (Wi-Fi or data network) required. Bixby controls selected apps, other apps to be supported.