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Bixby

Started Jan 31, 2020 | Discussions thread
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Bixby is back!

WryCuda wrote:

TonyGamble wrote:

It is a real pain and I have yet to find a way of stopping it taking over my camera.

I never use it and yet it keeps invading my attempts to keep things simple.

Bixby turned up after a large update, but seemed to require initialisation/agreements before it would become active, so it lurked to the left and could be ignored. The phone seemed to a bit unstable while Bixby lurked. I hear that it's now been pulled.

Now, after a recent update, it's gone away, and the phone is back to normal.

A newer update has reinstalled Bixby, which announced its presence by making my wife's phone "unstable". Well not really unstable, just anxious to have you enable all the features while it lurked among the other screens.

I was able to disable all the features, and make Bixby more or less go away. There were warnings that doing so might make some general features inoperable. Humbug!

I'll be getting a new phone for myself next week, and it won't be a Samsung.

Web searches revealed that most people hate Bixby, and there are multiple posts on disabling it. Not possible to delete Bixby absolutely.

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