Bixby

Just yesterday, Samsung finally began to roll out the voice command function of the Bixby smart assistant in the United States. An assistant that wants to compete and face other similar and already established ones such as Siri, Google Assistant or Alexa. This voice command tool is only available, at the moment, if you own a Samsung Galaxy S8 or a Samsung Galaxy S8+ and in the USA. For now, in Spain we have to wait.

These are Bixby voice commands

Thanks to the blog specialized in Samsung SamMobile, we can bring you all the questions and voice commands you can do in Bixby.They are very simple voice commands that can help you on a day-to-day basis. An artificial intelligence that wants to become your personal assistant, so that you have a more organized life. So, these are the Bixby voice commands that you can use as soon as they are available.

Common Commands

• Open Facebook. Where it says 'Facebook' you can say the application you want the system to run. ‘Open WhatsApp’, ‘Open Instagram’, etc.
• What time is it?
• What day is it today?
• Volume up/Volume down
• Restart my phone
• Turn on the flashlight/Turn off the flashlight
• Turn on emergency mode
• Play music
• Stop the music
• What song is this?
• What is the name of this song?
• Remind me to buy milk tomorrow at 9 am. You can add any task and Bixby will notify you.
• Show me my recent reminders
• Delete my purchase reminders
• How is the weather today?
• What's the weather like tomorrow?
• Is it going to rain today?
• What will the weather be like in xxxx tomorrow? You can say the name of the place you want.
• What is the UV index at xxxx? You can also add the name of the place you want.

Display & Navigation

• Take a screenshot
• Go Back
• Show me the home screen
• Scroll up/Scroll down
• Swipe left/Swipe right
• Scroll all the way up/Scroll all the way down
• Zoom in/Zoom out
• Turn on landscape display mode
• Put the phone in portrait mode
• Turn off the screen

Notifications and system tasks

• Show me recent apps in multiscreen view
• Close messages
• Close my recent apps
• Open messages in multiscreen mode
• Show me recent apps
• Open this application in a pop-up window
• Minimize this app
• Switch between windows
• Close messages
• Clear message notifications
• Show me all notifications
• Opens the shortcut panel
• Close the notification panel
• Expand message notifications
• Control brightness from the notification panel
• Read all notifications
• Read the latest notification

Questions and answers

• How far is the sun from the earth?
• What is the definition of doodle?
• How do you spell 'Restaurant'?
• Who was the 44th President of the USA?
• Teach me how to make cheesecake
• When is Thanksgiving
• Who was the first man to set foot on the Moon?
• How long is a cheetah's tail?
• What is 10 x 5?
• How many calories are in a bagel?
• What time does sunrise in Paris?
• What is a fathom?
• How many feet are in a mile?

Samsung Apps

'Open gallery and…'

• Find photos of New York
• Show me my most recent photo
• Share this photo
• Delete this photo
• Show me the travel album
• Delete the travel album
• Show me the most recent photos in slideshow mode
• Autofit the photo
• Deletes the location information of the most recent photo
• Rotate this photo to the right/Rotate this photo to the left
• Play the most recent video
• Show me the album list
• Add the most recent photo to your friends or favorites album
• Clears autofit effects from most recent photo
• Copy photos taken at Christmas to a new album
• Show me the details of the most recent photo

'Open contacts and…'

• Create a new contact as David with the number 123-4567. Here you simply have to say the name of the person to add and their phone number.
• Call my office
• Find David and call him hands-free
• Find David and call his house
• Call this number hands-free
• Send a message to David
• Show me David's contact information
• Show me David's profile updates
• Make a video call to David's mobile phone
• Call David
• Show me my group of friends
• Share my birthday
• Change my status to 'Busy'
• Match David with Jane
• Add David to favorites
• Send a message to everyone in my friend group
• Show me all contacts with the same information
• Turn on Google account synchronization

'Open the phone app and…

• Show me recent calls
• Show me the missed calls
• Accept my call
• Rejects the call and sends the message 'I'm in a meeting'
• Call handsfree at 123-4567
• Block the number 123.4567
• Call Speed ​​Dial 2
• Opens the phone keypad
• Make a call to 123-4567
• Call the most recent number
• Deletes the most recent number
• Show me recent searches
• Block David
• Make a video call to the most recent number
• Block the last number you called
• Call this number
• Add David to speed dial number 2
• Turn on vibration when call ends

'Open settings and…'

• Turn on WiFi in settings
• Search for nearby WiFi connections in settings
• Disconnect WiFi in settings
• Turn on Bluetooth in settings
• Scan nearby devices for Bluetooth in settings
• Go to dual audio in settings
• Show me my data uses
• Turn data saving on
• Turn on airplane mode
• Show me NFC settings
• Set the call volume to 50
• Raise system volume
• Turn on do not disturb mode
• Don't bother me between 10pm and 7am
• Set the brightness to 50
• Make the screen brighter
• Turn on the blue light filter

'Open messages and…'

• Show me the most recent message
• Lock the most recent conversation
• Disable chat notifications with David
• Copy the most recent text
• Show me the photos of the conversation with David
• Mark all unread messages as read
• Delete all conversations
• Take a picture and send it to David
• Show me the settings

'Open the camera and…'

• Take a photo
• Record a video
• Turn on the front camera
• Show me the pictures
• Set the rear camera timer to 10 seconds
• Turn on HDR mode
• Applies an effect
• Turns on RAW and JPEG file saving for rear camera
• Turn on video stabilization
• Sets the ISO value to 200 in professional mode
• Sets the exposure values ​​in professional mode to 1
• Turn on the flash
• Activate guides

'Open the watch and…'

• Set the alarm tomorrow at 6am
• Turn off the 6am alarm
• Show me the time in New York
• Turn off the alarm
• Show me the timer
• Opens the timer
• Add London to my world clock
• Opens the time zone converter in my world clock

'Open calculator and…'

• Calculate 5 + 2 x 45
• Show me the unit converter
• Convert 25 inches to centimeters

'Open the calendar and…'

• Create an event
• Show me August 23rd
• Show me the month of September
• Delete my completed tasks
• Mark 'store purchase' as done
• Delete all my appointments for today
• Show me the settings
• Changes the first day of the week to Sunday
• Show me the numbers of the week
• Turn on notifications
• Lock time zone
• Change time zone to New York