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How to turn off Bixby on a Samsung Galaxy
In short
Open Settings, Advanced features, Side button and set Long press to Power off menu, so the button no longer starts Bixby. To sign out of Bixby itself, open Advanced features, Bixby and tap Leave Bixby. It cannot be deleted from the phone.
Well, there is nothing quite like trying to switch your phone off and having Bixby cheerfully pop up instead. Bixby is Samsung's voice assistant, and pressing and holding the side button can start it by accident. The good news is that you can teach the button some manners. On our phone Bixby was not set up at all, and the side button was set to Google's assistant.
Steps 3 and 4 are from the same phone after its One UI 9 update (Android 17).
6 of 6 steps show a real screenshot from our Galaxy A57 5G (One UI 8.5) and Galaxy A57 (One UI 9).
Steps
- 1
Open Advanced features
Open Settings and tap Advanced features.
- 2
Tap Side button
It is in the third group, above Voice wake-up.
- 3
Set Long press to Power off menu
Tap Long press and choose Power off menu. Ours was set to Digital assistant (Google); on some phones it says Bixby.
Ours listed Digital assistant (Google), Bixby and Power off menu; we left it on Digital assistant.
- 4
Check Voice wake-up
Back on Advanced features, Voice wake-up controls whether the phone listens for a wake phrase. Tap Voice wake-up and turn it off there if you never talk to an assistant.
On ours the page listed Bixby, with its switch off.
- 5
Open Bixby
Tap Bixby on the Advanced features page.
- 6
Sign in shown? Bixby is already off
Our phone showed this welcome page with a Sign in button, which means Bixby was never set up. If yours shows Bixby settings instead, tap Leave Bixby.
If you do not see this option
- You want to delete Bixby completely Samsung says Bixby cannot be uninstalled. Leave Bixby removes your Bixby account and data from the phone instead. Source: How to remap or turn off Bixby on your Galaxy phone
- Your phone has a separate Bixby key Samsung says older phones like the Galaxy Note 9, Galaxy S8 series and Galaxy S10, and anything before them, have a Bixby key on the left edge, and a long press on it always launches Bixby Voice. Source: Set up the Side button or Bixby key on your Galaxy phone
If this does not work
- Bixby still opens by accident That means the side button is still holding on to its old job. Samsung says to set the Side button's Long press to Power off menu (step 3). The button then shows the power menu instead.
- You want Bixby back later Samsung says that after Leave Bixby you need to set Bixby up again before it works.
Good to know
Samsung says Bixby itself cannot be removed, so it stays on the phone like a quiet lodger even after you stop using it. Leaving it removes your Bixby account and data from the phone; clearing its data under Settings, Apps, Bixby, Storage also resets all your previous Bixby data.
More about the side button: how to change what the side button does on a Samsung Galaxy.
With Long press set to Power off menu, holding the side button shows the power menu, and your digital assistant is no longer one press away. Voice wake-up off means the phone stops listening for a wake phrase, which some people prefer for privacy. Neither change frees storage, because Bixby stays installed. To reverse everything, set Long press back to Bixby or Digital assistant and switch Voice wake-up on again; if you left Bixby, you need to set it up again before it works.
Watch these steps
Watch on YouTubeThe same steps, recorded on our Galaxy A57 5G · opens YouTubeAbout this guide
- Device
- Android
- Shown on
- Samsung Galaxy A57 5G (SM-A576B), One UI 8.5, Android 16, Samsung Galaxy A57 (SM-A576B), One UI 9, Android 17 (build A576BXXU6BZIE)
- App
- Settings
- Path
- Settings › Advanced features › Side button: Long press
- Real screenshots
- 6 of 6 steps
- What we did
- Observed: looked at each screen, changed nothing
- Our phone
- Shown on Galaxy A57, One UI 8.5
- Checked
- October 2026
- Sources
- 2 official, linked below
Sources
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