How to disable bixby on a Samsung Galaxy A30, A50 and A70 permanently

Bixby is Samsung's voice assistant that the company has implemented in all its phones launched since 2018. Today most of the company's phones have a button dedicated to it, as is the case with the Galaxy A30, A50 and A70. The option to get rid of the wizard is to disable Bixby completely. The problem is, this process has changed with the latest One UI 2.0 update. For this reason we will show you how to uninstall and deactivate Bixby completely from any model of the company, including the latest Galaxy A30s, A50s, A51, A70s and A71.

How to disable the Bixby button on a Galaxy A30, A50 and A70

The button that has historically been destined to turn the mobile off and on now acts as an assistant if we hold it down for several seconds. To disable the activation of Bixby through the button we will have to go to the Settings application, and more specifically to the Advanced functions section.

Within this section we will go to the Function Button option. At this point, the system allows us to select different actions based on the press: hold down or press twice.

To deactivate the Samsung assistant completely we will have to select the Off Menu option in the first and Quick start of the camera or Open application in the second. We can also disable double click through the tab enabled for it. Unfortunately we cannot disable the wizard completely. For this we will have to follow the steps that we will describe below.

How to uninstall and disable Bixby for good on Samsung

Samsung has vetoed the ability to uninstall Bixby. This does not mean that we cannot carry out this process, although for this we will have to follow a somewhat arduous path. The method in question is to remove the Bixby packages through ADB commands, a process that we already explained in this other article.

As a summary, we will have to download the ADB libraries on our Windows, Linux or macOS computer and then activate the Android developer options. We can do this by pressing several times on Build number in the About phone section in the Settings application; specifically in Software Information. To install the ADB libraries we will have to start the executable and press the Y key to accept the operation.

The next step will be to download the App Inspector application from the Google store to know the path of Bixby's own packages. These packages will generally be preceded by the nomenclature “com.samsung.bixby” or “com.bixby”.

Once we have located all the paths of the wizard we will have to activate USB debugging through the development settings.

Then we will connect the mobile phone to the computer by means of a USB cable until a confirmation message with an RSA key appears. Now, we are ready to uninstall Bixby through ADB commands.

To do this, we will open the Windows CMD (the Terminal on macOS and Linux) to execute the following commands:

• adb devices
• adb shell
• -user pm 0 -k uninstall packagename (usually usually com.xxxx.xxxx )

If everything has gone correctly, the program should throw us a screen similar to this:

To turn off other packages have to follow the same process by entering the last command (-k uninstall -user pm 0 packagename ). Finally we will write exit to close the command window.