How To Give Complete Control To Google Assistant And Remove Bixby On Samsung S8

How to remap Bixby to Google Assistant on the Samsung Galaxy S10, Annotation 9, and other 1 UI devices

At Samsung Unpacked, Samsung appear their new Samsung Galaxy S10 serial and Milky way Fold. After the printing discovered a new option in Bixby, Samsung confirmed that the button would be natively remappable. With an update released to the Bixby app on older One UI devices today, this is finally possible. However, it wasn't all adept news. Samsung is limiting the apps you can launch with the button. That means the Bixby button can't natively launch Google Assistant, but nosotros have a solution.

Samsung blacklisted other assistant apps from existence able to exist used past the button. That includes Amazon Alexa and Microsoft Cortana along with Google Assistant. Nosotros were able to get around this by using a Tasker script and exporting information technology equally an APK. This means all you need to do is install the app, select it in the settings, and cull Google when yous press the button.

This app also supports more than than just Google Assistant. We were able to besides launch the Cortana app, but it doesn't work with Amazon Alexa. In theory, whatsoever app that supports answering vocalization commands can exist remapped to the push with this method. Any phone that supports Bixby button remapping, including the Galaxy S10/S10+/S10e, Galaxy S9/S9+, and the Galaxy Note ix and Galaxy Notation 8 will support using Assistant.

Remap Bixby with Bixby Button Assistant Remapper

Download the Bixby Button Assistant Remapper APK
Install the app
Open up Bixby Voice Settings
Select Bixby key
Cull Double press to open Bixby
Select Utilise unmarried printing
Toggle information technology on and tap the gear icon to choose an app
Detect Bixby Button Assistant Remapper and select it
Press the physical Bixby button and select the assistant app you want to utilize (click ever so it doesn't ask every fourth dimension)
That's it!

It is also possible to do this without the required app by setting up a Bixby quick command. Y'all but ready a quick control to "open assistant." I would recommend the app method, though. In my testing of the quick command, information technology wasn't equally fast and it simply worked effectually 20% of the time. Other users have reported very reliable results, then your mileage may vary.

Remap Bixby to Google Banana with Quick Commands

Open up Bixby Voice
Get to Quick Commands in the Bixby dropdown menu
Create a new Quick Command and phone call it "Assistant"
Set Quick command word or phrase to "assistant"
Select"Type a control"
In this setting, type "open banana"
Save this Quick Command
Go to Bixby Vocalisation Settings
Select Bixby Fundamental
Select Double press to open Bixby
Select Quick Control
Go to Quick Command options and select "Assistant"
That's it!

It's overnice that Samsung is finally letting users remap the button to something else on the Galaxy S10, Galaxy Annotation 9, and other Ane UI devices. While yous tin't fully disable Bixby, you tin relegate it to a double-press and put your preferred app to the forefront. Hopefully, Samsung doesn't do anything in the future to suspension this workaround.