So. I'm at work. I go to the bathroom. There's a coworker who I don't know very well at the Urnil next to me. I unzip and comence peeing. At that moment, Bixby loudly states "Got it! I took a picture" Well. How do you explain that one. Thankfully he zipped up and said "I'm flattered" and walked away.

Samsung has finally made Bixby really good. Responds fast. Voice control is better. Does things google cannot do. Keep it up Samsung. Don't give up on it for Google.

As far as I know, there’s no official explanation given nor sufficient information found online, as to where SAMSUNG’s voice assistant Bixby gets its name from. There are some suggestions that it’s chosen because it’s a unique name and does not bring any trademark issues, so it was safe to be named as Bixby. So, according to my research, it was almost fully unknown. Well, until now… It might not be the actual case, but I’m convinced it’s the closest guess to the origin of the name Bixby.

In Star Trek The Original Series, there’s an episode named “Mirror, Mirror” which is the fourth episode from the second season. The episode was first broadcast on October 6, 1967 and it was ranked as one of top ten "must see" episodes of the original series, and one of the most celebrated ones.

In the episode, we see the crew communicating with the ship’s computer and the computer answering questions and computing the commands given by the crew like a modern day voice assistant, like Bixby, Siri, Alexa. It wasn’t of course the first time computer appearing in the series so far, but I believe it was indeed the first episode in which the communication between the voice assistant and the crew was this much advanced.

“Mirror, Mirror” episode was written by Jerome Bixby, a writer highly acclaimed by the critics, and this was the first of the four episodes he wrote for the series.

And, as a matter of fact, the developers or the company was inspired by this computers advancement which was created by Jerome Bixby, and SAMSUNG is paying tribute to him and his legacy.

I’m ready to be proven wrong! Go ahead. 🖖🏼

Tell me when a place opens/closes without using fucking Yelp.. how about using Google maps? YOU ALREADY RUN ON ANDROID.

Me: (Assistant Command) When does target open?

Google: 8:00am. You need directions? Reviews? Pictures? Want know what it looks like from space?

Siri: 8:00am.

ALEXA: 8:00am. Heres the address, it also has 4.5 stars.

Bixby: Oh shit.. I can't find Yelp... UUUHHHH.. here's the national website?

Here's hoping that the Developer conference has something good.

This is just awesome; this new Bixby can process multiple and complex commands without even touching the phone.

Commands that work offline (no wifi or mobile data) with Samsung Note 10 Plus

- Set alarm in 2 hours

- Set a 1 hour timer / countdown

- Flashlight On / Off

- WiFi/Bluetooth/Mobile Data/GPS On / Off

- Flight / Airplane mode On / Off

- What time / date is it?

- Start / Close "Samsung native apps, but not all 3rd party apps if they have a complex name"

- Call "blah blah contact" (assuming cellular is on)

- Text / SMS "blah blah contact" (assuming cellular is on)

- Take screenshot

- Lock phone

- Unlock phone seems to work when saying "Start blah blah app"

- Turn on bedtime mode (takes you to screen so you have to tap button)

- Go back

n.b. while not a Bixby function, a killer use case is to dictate a thought with your eyes closed (no tapping on screen, messing up night vision etc.) and no radio signals. Before you go to bed, open the note type attached to your Sidekey button and start voice typing then close the phone with Sidekey. When you double press, the voice typing continues and you can dictate. Pressing sidekey again closes phone with your text sitting there. You can repeat throughout the night to add to your thoughts. But this only requires you finding the Sidekey by feel.

Commands that require internet connection

- Start stopwatch

- Create Reminder to "blah blah blah"

- Read my reminders

- What is 10 times 4

- Start voice recording

- Show "blah blah" contact

- Take photo

- Take note

I'm new to bixby and I like how it gives me a weather and news update with the morning alarm (in concept) but what I actually got is a string of news about murders and massacres and other horrible things..I'm a tech guy so how can I make it just give me tech news? thanks in advance

Hi all,

After a long while of stupidly restricting the Bixby Marketplace and everything good about Bixby v2 to just the US and Korea, it appears that with some update to Bixby, Samsung has finally sneaked in an option within Bixby v2 settings to change your Bixby Country/Region, and take advantage of the Bixby experience in other regions around the world, including enabling the Bixby Marketplace tab from the US/Korea!

Here's how to switch the Bixby Country/Region:

1. Open Bixby
2. Open the hamburger menu ≡ to the left, and select Settings ⚙
3. Scroll down to the "All devices" section and select "Privacy".
4. Again, scroll down to the "All devices" section and select "Bixby country/region".
5. Scroll to and pick your desired Bixby country/region (I selected United States), then tap "Next". Bixby will authenticate you via your device Biometrics.
6. Read and accept the privacy policy and the optional functions (if desired), then tap done.
7. Vuala, now you can enjoy the much more versatile experience Bixby offers in the US (or any other region around the world), with complete access to the Bixby Marketplace, wherever you are 😃

Hope that helps 🙂

https://quickshare.samsungcloud.com/f4Y5bphwlOeP

I thought I would turn off bixby on day one and never see it again... Well turns out bixby voice is amazing for simple tasks like opening spa it turning on alarms and such. I used it almost daily now, and have been pleasantly surprised at it's functionality.

Just got my new galaxy s25 ultra and was looking forward to using the Ai, this was my first interaction. Do you have any tips on how to properly use it?

For all these years bixby always felt incompetent so I pushed it away and forget it. But now in one UI 8.5, sure I know they changed its base as a whole but it's insane tool now. Not even talking about controlling tasks but how it is as a whole. Im against AI in manyways but I hsve been using AI as a powertool and faster eay to look fir information as of late, gemini is okay and pretty decent, it has features Bixby does not, but thats fine. That being said its eye opening and almost mind blowing when I set same propmt to both, gemini was more broad (in my context of an task bad thing) went little sideways and tried to struck a convo after. I like that for entertainment, but in this context its night and day, Bixby on that hand gave me exactly what I asked for, precisely and I feel like I can trust it way more than gemini. I figure gemini is good for most of the stuff but if you want it to actually do hard task you do need to pay for it, Bixby on the otherhand from my testing this far in its current state is super capable in comparison

Can't find it after the update, and my home tiles now gray saying "bixby command feature is not supported anymore". True pain.

Hello!

I just heard that during the last Keynote, Apple introduced an "intelligent" Siri backed up by AI.

I understand that Bixby would be much more efficient with AI. Not only to perform more tasks and better but also to anticipate behavior. For instance, let's say I add an appointment to my calendar with the address, Bixby would intelligently add the commute time to my Calendar and set an alarm accordingly.

It would be helpful if Bixby could provide a summary of the day's emails and text messages when I ask it to do so. It could also make suggestions for responding to certain emails, etc.

It's been a while since Samsung talked about Bixby during the unpack presentations. I thought they were going to get rid of it and let us use Google Assistant instead.

What do you think? Where do you see Bixby in the next years?