As weird as it sounds, we may get tired of using Bixby on our Samsung phone . Although, if you have never heard of it, you have never used it or you have not even heard of it, you have to know that it is the assistant that the Korean firm uses on its mobile devices. In short, it fulfills the function of Siri on Apple terminals or Google Assistant on other Android phones.
However, at a certain point, the fact that we receive continuous commercial notifications , that is, the advertising of a lifetime, can become quite annoying. Although it will be, for the most part, in the form of different promotions. Luckily, this feature can be completely disabled on any Korean brand phone. Although, we will give you more methods for you to deactivate the assistant of your Samsung phone from the root and so you do not have to suffer at any time for these ads.
Remove commercial advertising
This is one of those features that has been present in your Galaxy smartphones for years. In addition, a while ago, this functionality already had Spanish, so its use for many users was very useful, since we had a tool in the purest Siri style. However, it is not always in the interest of everyone with a Samsung Galaxy in their possession, and more so when it bombards us with commercial notifications.
Therefore, despite the fact that it has advanced significantly, for many users it is not a good assistant or they do not believe that it contributes anything that is essential to their mobile devices. Therefore, we will explain the first method that you will have at your disposal so that you do not be bothered with advertisements , promotions or purely commercial information that are completely unnecessary for us.
It is clear that the simple fact that any app notifies us of any issue is not annoying, the problem is that it only does it to offer us commercial offers, as is the case with Bixby. To deactivate this function of any Samsung Galaxy mobile you will have to follow these steps:
- Open Bixby on your phone (if you have the button configured, you can use it).
- Click on the three lines that will appear in the upper left part of your phone’s screen (in some versions of One UI you will have to click on the three dots that will appear on the top right).
- Click on the gear icon that will take us to its settings> All.
- Look for the Commercial notifications option and deactivate it on your smartphone.
These steps may vary depending on the One UI layer and the version of Android that you have installed on your mobile phone. Even so, the steps will still be fairly similar and easy to complete in just a few seconds. But, in general, the Commercial Notifications switch is disabled as standard. However, if in your case it bombards you with advertising, this will be the first method to remove the ads .
Are ads still showing?
If after disabling the previous function with which we will be able to eliminate mobile advertising through Bixby, the culprit in this case will be the terminal itself and not this tool. Basically, our phone also has an option that will allow us to completely disable all messages that are related to news, special offers and recommendations on Samsung products and services. To achieve this, you must follow these steps:
- Go into settings.
- Go to the Privacy section.
- Deactivate the option to Receive commercial information .
Deactivate its special button
With the previous steps we will get Bixby to stop showing us these commercial notifications. Although it is not the only way to end the voice assistant on your Samsung Galaxy phones. Of course, before using this method, we will have to log in with our Samsung account to be able to deactivate any aspect of this virtual assistant on our mobile device, although surely you are already logged in. Therefore, if you did not log in when you turned on your mobile, you can do so by pressing the Bixby button or swiping to the right on the home screen of your device.
And finally, enter your account credentials or create an account if you don’t have one. Once you have completed this step, it will be time to find out how you can completely disable the Bixby button. This has been present in all the devices of the Asian manufacturer for a couple of years, although for many it is of little use, and only annoying.
In fact, although many users are always looking to give it a useful use or even change the assistant of this signature to that of Google, the truth is that it does not end up convincing some people at any time. If this is your case, you will have to follow the following steps to get rid of the button:
- Access the settings.
- Enter the Advanced functions section.
- Click on the Function Button option .
- Choose another function instead of opening Bixby.
In order to use this wizard through the button that is assigned, it will be necessary that you choose to open other applications using this tool. That is, it will ask you to choose which application you want to open using this method. So yes or yes you are going to have to select another app that you have installed on your terminal. Or you can also go for the Camera Quick Start and the Off Menu, as shown in the picture above.
What about voice recognition?
Now it is the turn to say goodbye forever to the famous voice command ‘ Hi, Bixby ‘, that is, the voice recognition of the South Korean brand. Not only will it serve to get rid of the button, but it will also be essential that we remove it from its own settings so that it does not appear again at any time and thus prevent us from showing us any type of commercial information.
Once we follow the steps that we will explain later, it will be useless to try to invoke them using any voice command. Therefore, if you do not want to have this virtual assistant that can be very useful by giving you simple orders and instructions, you will have to carry out the following process on your smartphone:
- Search for the Bixby app on your Samsung terminal or invoke it with the command.
- Once inside, click on the three horizontal stripes (they could appear in the upper left or right part of the screen).
- Enter your Settings.
- Then, go to Voice Activation and disable the option to Activate with “Hi, Bixby”.
