How to remove Bixby Home page in Galaxy S8 and S8+ home screen?

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• Or just download great mini app bxActions from Google store https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jamworks.bxactions.

• Not sure why we would want every interaction with our phone sent to South Korea for analysis. I completely disabled Bixby and setup the button to work with the camera instead. Bixby is not useful.

• I followed the steps and my problem still exists

  • What's the problem? If you hide the Bixby home page, it should not show in your home screen.

    Of course, you will still see the page if you press the Bixby button. You cannot disable the hardware button.

• Can you give details on how you set up the Bixby button to work with the camera?

  • We are preparing the guide.

    Bixby button is for you to launch Bixby home. In camera app, you should find the Bixby button already. You don't need Bixby button. You may check this guide on camera app (Bixby vision button is marked as 6) https://gadgetguideonline.com/s8/how-to-use-galaxy-s8-camera-app/

• Hate the bixby app that appears on my S8 plus ..GET RID OF IT .....it is so annoying

  • You cannot remove Bixby from Galaxy S8 and S8+. It's deeply integrated into the phone. Your only choice is not to use it.

• If I had known of the Bixby app, even the name makes me want to scream, I would not have bought the phone. It has no point and performs no useful function whatsoever.

  • You can just not to use it.

• You said you can remove the Bixby page but you don't give us instructions for that. You're only telling us how to shut Bixby off.

  • This guide only shows you how to remove or hide Bixby home screen from Galaxy S8 home screen. You cannot remove Bixby, you cannot shut Bixby off. The only solution of removing Bixby is not to use Samsung phones. Bixby is integrated deeply in S8 and S8+.

• How about epoxy or glue on the button so it cannot depress if hit by mistake?

  • You can check local handphone repair shop. But it will void your warranty.

• Is there a way to use Google Voice in lieu of this POS voice that's on there now?

  • No, you cannot change the voice engine for Bixby.

    You can use Google Assistant if you want. Just hold home button.

    • I don't really want to do anything with Biggs me I just won't use it but for instance this text that I am Dictating is just Terrible. I can use Google for text messaging But not for Facebook or messaging on Facebook And will do something about it.

    • By The way thank you for your reply

• I used Bixby remapper, it's an app in the play store, slowed me to map the button to any app, I put it on camera, works great, you just can't use Bixby at all or it will revert or something, but I don't care because I never would use it anyway.

• I HATE bixby it was a bad idea and to try and force it on people makes me think about the Terminator. It should be optional and completely removable. Samsung should just do them and forget about keeping up with Alexa and Siri

• hi,

  i fully agree with you.

  plase let us know how to disable the bixby button, how to remove bixby sw from s8, how to re-configure the left button to start any other application than bixby.

  thx!
  Akos

  • Don't use Samsung phones. Bixby will come to more Samsung phones with deeper integration. This means it's almost impossible to disable Bixby without breaking other features.

    • Ha ha ha ... so for you Bixby would be reason not to use best tech and overall phones which are Samsung? :-) Never been so satisfied with any phone as with my current S8. Do not like Bixby, have disabled with app, from time to time come back ... but at the end it is not so bad at all once you get used to it. Now I have enabled Bixby, will see after some time. But have have disabled dedicated key which is - IMO - completely silly decision and on the very wrong spot.

• ahoi,

  this is an online petition for change the mandatory bigsby towards samsung company.

  https://www.change.org/p/samsung-disable-bixby-samsung-galaxy-s8?recruiter=769993960&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=copylink&utm_campaign=share_petition&utm_term=share_email_responsive

  please join and share!

• Changed from Bixby home to Google now... all my apps disappeared.. I still get all my notifications, the apps say in play store that they are on the phone but there is nothing in home screens or the full app nor comes up when I search in search for apps... how do I get them back? It's note 8 btw

  • What did you do when you changed from Bixby to Googe Now? Did you change to Google Now launcher? Or did you use some apps to change the function?

• My home screen and Bixby is not given me a button to remove it saying update or cancel now what do I do my email REMOVED

  • Can you share a screenshot in our Facebook page so that others can see what screen you are referring to.

• Bixby is the worst app ever for any of my phones
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• I agree with all the people who complain about being forced to see this stupid Bixby crap. I DO NOT NEED SOME SOFTWARE TO TELL ME WHAT TO DO! I am an intelligent human being, and sick and tired of people trying to f...ing help me like I am a total moron. Because, that's what I feel they are doing these days: trying to dumb us down so much, we will swallow any crap they feed us. GRRRR!!!

• PS: I bought this S8+ phone because it got the highest rating in Consumer Reports. But they failed to take a few points away for this huge design mistake. Had I known this I would have looked at another phone. Next time I will check and make sure to avoid any phone with this particularly idiotic feature.

• Hate it. I have force stopped the app over & over. It just comes back like a bad dream. Love the phone.... Hate the demi-god approach to phone. Let me chose what I want help with.

• You can get used to a nail stuck through your foot, too, if it's there long enough. Dopey fan boy ...

• Maybe we can get Kim Jong Un to drop one of his crappy missiles on the whole Samsung group who thought Bixby was a great idea to force on people .. this has got to be the worst, most irritating application ever conceived and wasted on an otherwise nicely done piece of hardware. I would NEVER have bought the phone had I understood this crap app was on it and couldn't be taken out.

• I followed the steps and I'm still having the same problem. It's draining my battery.

  • You cannot fully disable Bixby in S8. But if you don't set it up, it should not drain too much battery. If you really don't want to use it, you can try to clear data for Bixby in settings - apps. There are several Bixby related apps. You need to clear data for all of them.

• EASIEST FIX! Glue the stupid button on the new case you KNOW you are going to have to buy anyway. All of these solutions I read require you to ACTIVATE Bixby before you proceed. I am NOT activating it - to look at the permissions you have to give it - no thanks!

• This trick worked for awhile - all of a sudden this weekend the screen is back if you swipe! It is still turned off as above - but shows up again when swiping!!! Has this happened to anyone else? And do we have fix for it?

  • Are you sure it is turned off? When you are in other home screen panel, what's the leftmost screen panel indicator, dot or two lines?

• I don't see any dots at all? I am not sure where you are looking... :(

  • Hoem Screen indicator is marked as 4 in this guide.

• Got it - I think I figured it out!!! :)

• Bixby sucks

• LMAO Just LOVE, LOVE, LOVE Karla's solution!!!! LMAO

• LMAO Just LOVE, LOVE, LLLLLLOVE your solution!!! LMAO Now that's thinking outside the box.

• "It's deeply integrated into the OS" is what they said about Explorer in Windows XP-7, and yet it was still possible to remove with a few registry redirects.

  • The problem is that Samsung believes Bixby is their future. So they tried very hard to promote Bixby.

• I have a new S8 (replacement of broken phone) and know I want to disable Bixby button and Bixby Home page right away. You solution requires that I go to the Bixby page, which in turns requires that I first accept all of the Samsung permissions and enable Bixby. Ever read those permissions? They are invasive and intrusive. Give Samsung access to all my contacts? No way. Is there any way to disable the Bixby button without first accepting all the Samsung permissions? Is there no button control screen in Settings?

  • Yes, you need to enable Bixby to disable the button. For today's smartphones, you have to trust someone.