Show us your Bixby Quick commands!

[j_hansen]

We should have this thread a sticky really, I haven't used bixby much yet but determined to give it a proper chance, everything you teach it and set up will follow you to future devices as well I guess and Bixby will only get better

 

[pdqgp]

I can't get Bixby to open Waze. I would love to use this app instead of Google maps which Bixby automatically uses if asked for directions to any location.

I had to pronounce it Wazy. Works now

 

[jmj227]

Bixby fixed a few things that have really bothered me about Nike Run Club app. I use command Nike to turn brightness to max and have screen stay on 10 mins. Nike off undies both settings. Pretty good stuff!

 

[Baby_Doc]

I had to pronounce it Wazy. Works now

Exactly what command did you give? Saying "open wazy" doesn't work for me.

 

[Lyspaere]

Exactly what command did you give? Saying "open wazy" doesn't work for me.

I just tried "Open the Waze app", & it worked straight away

 

[nuangel2]

I can't get Bixby to open Waze. I prefer this to Google maps

 

[nuangel2]

Using wazy I got it to open Waze but ask for directions and it opens and uses Google maps. If I tap red Mike it opens Google assistant but will give directions using Waze.

 

[km04]

Is it possible to create a quick command to send a predetermined text?

 

[Gray Area]

Is it possible to create a quick command to send a predetermined text?

I would think so, you would probably have to choose the recipient though.

 

[Isaiah Peterson]

I just tried "Open the Waze app", & it worked straight away

This is what works for me as well. For some reason if you just say "open waze" it interprets that as "open ways" and doesn't know what to do with that. "Open Waze App" almost always works though.

 

[Disk4mat]

You could say open Waze then using the teach me option edit the word Waze to read Waze app. After that the open Waze command will execute as open Waze app.

 

[Methos1979]

I've decided to give Bixby another chance. I have a couple questions about the Quick Commands: Do they launch from just the command itself or only after you enable Bixby by saying Hi Bixby first? In other words, would have to say, "Hi Bixby" wait for it to come on and then say "Goodnight Bixby" to get that quick command to run? How about if the phone is in lock screen? Also, does Bixby allow you to reboot the phone from a quick command? I like to reboot my phone daily in the morning while still on the charger to free up all the phone's resources. I envision a quick command that does something like this:

From the charge station/lock screen:

"Good morning Bixby" does the following:

Turns off Do Not Disturb
Reads today weather
Opens calendar, reads any days appointments
Opens Reminders, reads any reminders
Reboots phone

Is this doable?

 

[Disk4mat]

You can press and hold the Bixby button to bypass saying "Hi Bixby". I looked up the command for restarting the phone and its "restart my phone".

You can also initiate Bixby from the lock screen by either method mentioned.

 

[Gareee]

Is there a way to customize a command to not have a vocal reply? In finding "closer all" to close all my running apps very handy, but I'd like it to close them and not talk me that it did.

 

[Methos1979]

You can press and hold the Bixby button to bypass saying "Hi Bixby". I looked up the command for restarting the phone and its "restart my phone".

You can also initiate Bixby from the lock screen by either method mentioned.

Pressing/holding the Bixby button to me defeats the purpose of using Bixby. If the phone is already in my hand I'm going to just do it manually. That said, I have been experimenting and you do need to initiate quick commands with a "Hi Bixby" first which makes sense otherwise you'd have your actions launching every time it hears or thinks it's hear you say the command.

I have created the quick command as written above and tested it and it seems to work well. I might change the command vocal around so I'm not saying Bixby twice. One question, is there a way to get the phone to pause between the calendar and weather and reboot commands to give me more time to view appointments and weather? Something like 'pause tens seconds'?

 

[boltsbearsjosh]

The issue Bixby is having is so many people just think it's another Google assistant, and it's not. It's not even really close. Google assistant to me is more akin to what Siri and Alexa bring to the table, while Bixby (while it CAN do some of those things as well) is more suited to perform voice activated phone tasks. I think this confuses a lot of people who just think "isn't that what siri does?" And like I said yes Bixby CAN do those things too, but imo if I was going to use voice assistance for looking up information on the web, then I find Google assistant to be far superior. Bixby has a dedicated button for a reason and I don't think Sammy did a great job at selling how useful that button actually could be.

 

[Gray Area]

Pressing/holding the Bixby button to me defeats the purpose of using Bixby. If the phone is already in my hand I'm going to just do it manually. That said, I have been experimenting and you do need to initiate quick commands with a "Hi Bixby" first which makes sense otherwise you'd have your actions launching every time it hears or thinks it's hear you say the command.

I have created the quick command as written above and tested it and it seems to work well. I might change the command vocal around so I'm not saying Bixby twice. One question, is there a way to get the phone to pause between the calendar and weather and reboot commands to give me more time to view appointments and weather? Something like 'pause tens seconds'?

I havn't found a way to pause it, but this is something I'm hoping will come in 2.0. When I do my phone optimization command Bixby goes through all the tasks so fast sometimes it doesn't finish doing 1 task before going to the next task. Having a pause or at least wait until a task is complete is needed badly.

 

[Methos1979]

I havn't found a way to pause it, but this is something I'm hoping will come in 2.0. When I do my phone optimization command Bixby goes through all the tasks so fast sometimes it doesn't finish doing 1 task before going to the next task. Having a pause or at least wait until a task is complete is needed badly.

Yes, after several failed attempts it became clear that I couldn't get it to pause. I'm afraid for my purposes, Bixby is still too in its infancy to be useful. Anything I want Bixby to do it automated phone control things I can do with Llama or Tasker automatically, instantly and behind the scenes. Most of the people I see here that are loving Bixby are kind of new to that whole automated programming and think that voice activated phone control is the bomb. I can see it being useful to car hands free usage for texting and what not but other than that not much else. Maybe after some more upgrades. I'll check back after 2.0 lands.

 

[Gray Area]

Useful commands

https://youtu.be/kAaA9w_VY_8

 

[Gray Area]

Hey Bixby do a Halloween rap!