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The people at Samsung are still determined to force us to use their intelligent assistant Bixby A tool that seeks to assist the user even before the user You need it yourself, with information that may be useful to you, or to use the terminal with voice commands. But it seems that they are beginning to twist their arm, since the Bixby button of the new Samsung Galaxy S10 can be used for other things. Of course, you have to use a special application to make the most of it.
Until now, the Bixby button was only used to invoke this assistant. Whether it was to see Bixby home with news and features that might interest us, or to be able to use voice commands. The only option that Samsung gave us was disconfigure the aforementioned button so as not to inadvertently activate it when holding the mobile in hand. Until now. And it is that a new world of possibilities opens up thanks to the Tasker application. Of course, for the moment in its beta version.
Step by Step
The process, at the moment, is somewhat laborious. But only for now. And it is that the Tasker application has included this option to modify the operation of the Samsung Galaxy S10 button in its beta or test version. In other words, not only do you have to get the application from the Google Play Store for a price of 3 euros, but you also have to sign up for its program betatesteror test via this link.Here you just have to press the Become a beta tester button and wait a couple of minutes to be able to update the application to its most advanced version, where the new function is.
You must also make sure you have the latest version of Bixby downloaded to your Samsung Galaxy terminal. To do this, click on the button, access Bixby Home and click on the three dots on the right side of the screen to check the version available on your mobile through the settings of this wizard. Version 2.1.04.18 is currently available, with which the Tasker app works.
If we have the latest version of Tasker, the aforementioned beta or test version, we will see that there are two icons on our mobile. One is the regular Tasket app, the other is called Tasker Secondary.
We return to the Bixby Home menu, use the three points and travel to the Settings menu. Here we will have to configure the Bixby button to access the assistant with a double press, and not only with one. In addition, you must activate the possibility of opening any other application with a single press of this button. This is when we can and should select the Tasker Secondary application to give total freedom to this physical button.
Now we open the main Tasker application, where we must create a new profile in the Tutorial tab. Click on the + button and select Event to create a new one. Within the list we select the Tasker option, and in the following menu we click on the Sencodary app Opened option. We confirm the action and create a new order for this profile.
Click then on the option New Task or new task, and add the option that we want In the video tutorial that accompanies this news, select Voice Command or voice command. This will open the Google assistant when we press the Bixby button, with which we will have access to more functions and features on our mobile than with the Samsung assistant.
But we can choose any other option from the list that Tasker suggests Items like bluetooth connectivity, flashlight, any app, an image , a sound, etc. You will have control over the button, and it will not be as limited as Samsung wants.
