Bixby And Impact on Battery

[Lepa79]

I've been using my S8 Plus for 2 days now and love how smooth and fluid it is. Battery has also been amazing.

I've been holding on activating Bixby in fear that it will either impact performance or battery life.

For folks who have Bixby enabled, any performance draw backs or negative battery impacts?

 

[Tim1954]

Suck it and see. Turn it on for a day and compare the drainage. We all use our devices differently, my battery life may be different. Far too many variables with battery life. Do your own tests and come back to tell us about it.
Welcome to the forums! The S8 is an amazing device, I love mine!
Bixby is blocked, I haven't bothered but it could be amusing...

 

[dpham00]

Shouldn't matter that much in normal usage but you can always disable it later if it causes a problem

 

[theelite1x87]

I've personally not even set it up. But I do have Google now/ Google Assistant going. Those don't seem to have any impact on this phone, o imagine bixby being about the same if enabled

 

[Choccy]

How do you get Google Assistant working fully? I've used ok Google but it's not the full assistant.

 

[theelite1x87]

I just hold down home button and Assistant pops up for me.

 

[Lepa79]

I've personally not even set it up. But I do have Google now/ Google Assistant going. Those don't seem to have any impact on this phone, o imagine bixby being about the same if enabled

Ya I have assistant on as well. Just wondering about Bixby.

 

[Choccy]

I just hold down home button and Assistant pops up for me.

Isn't that just normal ok Google though? it doesn't stay on to ask several questions etc like it's meant too?

 

[anon(238680)]

Isn't that just normal ok Google though? it doesn't stay on to ask several questions etc like it's meant too?

Depends on what you mean by "stay on". If you have "Ok Google" enabled then the phone is always monitoring to hear that phrase, which will bring up Google Assistant. Otherwise I believe Assistant is dormant. I don't think that is the case with Bixby though as it has a number of items that it monitors to keep you informed or whatever. As that monitoring is going on it can't help but use battery. That's why I didn't keep Google Now going as it gave me stuff I didn't care about and sucked the batt down. I don't foresee any difference with Bixby, other than it might be worse.

 

[Kalvin Kerns]

Depends on what you mean by "stay on". If you have "Ok Google" enabled then the phone is always monitoring to hear that phrase, which will bring up Google Assistant. Otherwise I believe Assistant is dormant. I don't think that is the case with Bixby though as it has a number of items that it monitors to keep you informed or whatever. As that monitoring is going on it can't help but use battery. That's why I didn't keep Google Now going as it gave me stuff I didn't care about and sucked the batt down. I don't foresee any difference with Bixby, other than it might be worse.

Disabled all things Bixby as it's not currently useful. No point having it on and monitoring stuff potentially eating battery.

 

[shaneontherocks]

Did you know you could go into settings, then apps, then click on Bixby. There it will show you the exact battery consumption it has used since last charged. Every app will tell you this! Love this addition.

 

[Lepa79]

I ended up enabling bixby few days back. Don't see it causing lag or battery drain. Don't see it useful either but I'll let it be as along as it is not harming anything. I'll give Samsung a chance to see where they are taking this. But I honestly believe it's waste of Samsung resources as Google Assistant is the future.