Bixby is Samsung’s voice assistant, similar to Google Assistant. It was introduced three years back with the Samsung Galaxy S8 series. Since then, it has been a part of every major Samsung device, and the company has also been trying hard to convince users to use Bixby. This voice assistant is baked into Samsung smartphones, especially the “S” and “Note series” and the Korean giant didn’t even provide ways to turn it off. The same is the case with the recently launched Samsung Galaxy S21 series. There are many Bixby services baked into the S21 series. These services run in the background and consume data and battery. Bixby and all it’s services are very irritating for many Samsung users. With the latest Galaxy devices, this voice assistant is triggered by long pressing the power button. Many users accidentally open Bixby by pressing the power button.
It’s not just the Bixby voice assistant; many other Bixby services on the Galaxy S21 series exist. Users can see these services by going into the settings app. In Settings, select apps from the lists, and you will see all the apps installed on your device. From all the apps on the list, you can see many apps related to Bixby and its services. These apps are constantly running in the background and consuming battery. You can force stop some of these services, but after some time, these services will restart again, and these services will start running in the background, and there are no other ways to stop or disable them.
This article will show you how you can disable all Bixby services on your Galaxy S21 without rooting the device. You can disable these services with the help of the ADB commands in just a few minutes.
How do you Disable all Bixby Services using ADB?
Now, to do that, you need a few things. You can do this with the help of a computer with ADB installed on it. If you don’t know how to install and use ADB, then you have to follow these steps:-
- Open google
- Search “Minimal ADB and Fastboot XDA”
- You will see the XDA developer link, open the link
- Now that you will see a thread related to the Minimal ADB and Fastboot.
- At the bottom of the page, you will see the download button from where you can download the ADB on your computer.
- It is a simple .exe file similar to all other computer programs.
- Download the file and Install the Minimal ADB file and on your computer.
- After you have installed the program we can move to the next step.
Setting Up Your Device
On your Galaxy device download APK Analyzer from the Play Store and open it.
This app will show all the installed apps on your Samsung device.
Search “Bixby” in the app.
After searching “Bixby”, you will see all the Bixby services and apps installed on your device.
Under the app name, you will see the APK package name for all the apps/services on your Galaxy device.
You will see apps like “Bixby Routines”, “Bixby Voice Stub”, “Bixby Voice”, “Bixby Vision” and “Bixby Vision Framework”, etc.
You will see the APK package name under all these services/apps like com.samsung.android.
Note all the APK package names of the services you want to disable.
Connecting Your Device
Connect your Samsung Galaxy device to your computer via a USB cable.
After connecting the device to the computer via a USB cable, enable USB debugging mode on your phone.
- To enable USB debugging, follow the following steps.
- Open Settings on your device
- Tap about phone option
- In the About phone, tap the build number 7 to 8 times, enabling developer options.
- In the developer option, you will find USB debugging; enable it by the just top on the toggle.
Use ADB Commands
- Now, Open the Minimal ADB and Fastboot on your PC/laptop.
- Type adb devices
- You will see your device name which you connected via USB cable
- Now type adb shell and hit enter
- Type “pm disable-user –user 0 com.samsung.android.app.routines” and hit enter.
- You will see the confirmation that the service is disabled.
The text above in bold is the command and you have to type it without the quotes.
com.samsung.android.app.routines are the APK package name for Bixby routine service and you will find it in the APK analyzer.
You have to manually turn off each service you want by changing the APK package name. Apart from the APK package name, the other commands are the same.
Confirm the Changes
After disabling all the services, you can confirm it by going into settings.
Open Settings on your device and tap Applications; you should now see all the Bixby Services you disabled with the Minimal ABD tool.
The above-mentioned procedure is a step-by-step guide on how to disable all your Bixby services on Samsung Galaxy devices. This will not permanently delete these services but only disable them. To delete them, you need to root your device and then you can delete them permanently.
Re-enabling Bixby Services
- At some point, if you want to enable these services again, do a simple factory reset.
- You can also repeat the step-by-step procedure mentioned above to enable all the ADB command services.
- While enabling the service, change the command to “cmd package install-existing [package name]”.
Experiencing difficulties with your Device, check out our “How To” page on how to resolve some of these issues.
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