Bixby Button Remapper

- July 20, 2017

Everyone

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Description

This app is somewhat experimental! It allows you to remap the Bixby Button on the Galaxy S8 to something other than, well, Bixby!

Bixby Button Remapper is an app with a main focus around simplicity and performance. There are 2 different modes: "More Stable" mode, which is very carefully curated so as to not impede on device performance whatsoever, and "No Delay" mode which works like every other Bixby remapping app these days and uses more CPU power. Luckily, you have 2 options!

This app is somewhat experimental, so send me an email at support@phascinate.com if you experience any issues!

Reviews

4.1

700 total

5 420

4 104

3 54

2 36

1 86

Lily Rose

I am very happy to have that annoying button open Google instead now, but I have noticed that if my phone is locked and I hit the button it still opens Bixby. Not that big of a deal, just annoying. Otherwise i'm much happier now, keep up the good work!

dillonoid

Great app. I recently broke my power button and I was wondering if the developer could possibly save me from getting a very expensive fix. Could you add a power button to the remapper?

Jose Fernandez

This app has changed the way my Samsung.... I absolutely despise bixby and this has helped alot... the latest update completely worked around the most recent tmobile update and this app is a phone changer

Jon Petersen

Remapped the worthless button to open the camera. The Bixby button went from annoying to useful!

Tyler Rowley

Does exactly what it says, and that is perfect for me. It's also easy to use. Thanks! :)

Techno Otaku

To the developer of this app, don't give up on this. This should be an option by default.

User reviews

Lily Rose July 21, 2017

dillonoid July 23, 2017

Great app. I recently broke my power button and I was wondering if the developer could possibly save me from getting a very expensive fix. Could you add a power button to the remapper?

Jose Fernandez July 22, 2017

Jon Petersen July 21, 2017

Remapped the worthless button to open the camera. The Bixby button went from annoying to useful!

Tyler Rowley July 22, 2017

Does exactly what it says, and that is perfect for me. It's also easy to use. Thanks! :)

Techno Otaku July 20, 2017

To the developer of this app, don't give up on this. This should be an option by default.

Stan G. July 21, 2017

Great! It works after latest Sprint update and the only one I found which works from the lock screen.

Greg Blomstrom July 21, 2017

Great app! Exactly as described and works flawlessly.

Joshua Essig July 20, 2017

Can't enable with secure startup. That's a deal breaker.

Ivan Braun July 22, 2017

Unlike other apps, it's working after the latest (around July 20) update. Thumbs up!

jared A July 23, 2017

Brilliant work by the developer! Works on mine after the latest OTA update by t-mo.

Hani Ghattas July 21, 2017

Keep fighting the good fight!

Abu Zakariah July 20, 2017

Works like a charm

Roman Milushov July 20, 2017

Not working at all (I setted "do nothing")

cristian renteria July 23, 2017

No longer works since the update

July 20, 2017

Thank you!

Adrian Mapes July 21, 2017

Still opens bixby

Dean Driscoll July 22, 2017

Amazing!! Finally able to make use of that button! Thanks so much!

David Toro July 23, 2017

Works perfectly. Finally! No more Bixby!

Jorge Longoria May 14, 2017

As advertised. I read the reviews and it's not the app's fault. Yes the bixby animation still shows up but it's really really quick. I have mine set up for flashlight and it works really well. I used the no delay mode and works as advertised. Bixby is trash idk y we needed 2 (almost) voice assistants. "Ok Google" is perfectly just fine. Good work!

May 13, 2017

Bixpy opens up for a second then closes itself and then your remapped app opens. In other words its a little clunky, but it works. I would give it a higher rating if there was an option to remap the button input ie: pressing twice or holding the button opens up different apps.

Jamil Abubacar July 11, 2017

App does exactly what the dev said it would do and works. Kudos to the dev for keeping it wotking even though Samsung is trying to force us to use something that doesn't even work! LAME! samsung need to give us the option to use other stock functions of the phone, or do nothing

Pilar Singleton May 28, 2017

I love that I have finally been able to find an app that turns off Bixby that hasn't been disabled yet. I was so tired of Bixby popping up just from picking up my phone or trying to turn down the volume the location is so inconvient. Yes, there is a slight delay when the Bixby button is pressed, but it's only a split second and it goes away, which works for me, because I mapped the button to do nothing so I'm not waiting for anything in particular to open when it is pressed.

steve coppola June 9, 2017

Right now until Bixby can respond to voice commands it's not worth using. Remapper lets you choose any App you want. My preference, as example, is Cortana. An app that can actually respond to voice command Dial phone, set reminders, text, etc. Works great I love it!

Make Name Acceptable Go June 21, 2017

Works great. With all the app cards turned off in Bixby settings stable version is very quick... I have a request in to the developer: A "bright sunshine" action. Basically either an incremental increase in screen brightness (more generally useful) or just pop to high screen brightness (would work fine for me). The problem: Going from inside to outside, one can't see the screen and can't see the quick settings to make it brighter.

Dr Wolfslayer July 11, 2017

I really like this app. Before I would always accidentally pressed it when trying to turn the volume down. And the split second pop up is still better then it actually staying there. It would be cool if the button could do a few more things. Like screen shot, that would be nice.

josh0liva May 2, 2017

App works as advertised. I found out that if I close ALL widgets, or tabs, or whatever the bixby modules are called the app works much better. Everytime you press the bixby button (for flashlight) the bixby card slides out then slides back in a half second later. If you cancel all widgets ahead of time this app works smoothly and quickly.

Ruben Blanco July 9, 2017

Well it got the job done before tmobile latest software update made Bixby remapping apps obsolete. Loved using this button to pop up my camera and it got the job done until the latest update. At no fault is the creator of this app so that is why they still get 5 stars.

Solomon Murrell July 8, 2017

It works as advertised but the bixby shows up for a milisecond then the assigned app or action finally appears. If there's a way for the bixby not to show up when pressing the button would have been great but since I'm not a developer, I'm not sure how easy would that be to do. In any case, the app works as stated and recommended to download.

victor May 22, 2017

I love the concept of making the bixby button useful, because how many people found bixby usefull?? Although the app is super buggy it has potential. I use the button to turn on/off the do not disturb but the flaw I've noticed is that it mutes my music and doesnt let alarms go through even though I have custom setting for certain things to go through even with do not disturb on and the dumb bixby page will pop up for a split second still. So hopefully bugs will get fixed because I do love this app and only wish it gets better^^

Travis Johnson May 4, 2017

This app is great. It gives you a good variety of different things to have your vestigial button do, aside from opening the worthless Bixby app. In fact the only reason I'm giving it 4 stars instead of 5 is because it still opens Bixby sometimes. Also, perhaps the developer could create an option to open a memo or calculator function. Either of those would benefit some folks. Good app.

Jason George May 11, 2017

It works 6 times out of 10 for me. Would be nice if Samsung provided the option to disable Bixby natively since there's obviously a lot of us out there trying to work around it. Nice having an extra physical button though.

July 5, 2017

Thanks to the devs who made this app possible and letting me stick it to those bitches at Samsung! I'm Gonna look for a donation link to give you badasses some coin. Samsung, HARUMPH! Lock down my S8 so I can't root it and then stick me with a Bixby H/W key? I've ran this app for a couple months now without any issue or complaint. I even have Flo (the Google Assistant) mapped to that once lame Bixby Button.

May 29, 2017

Works as expected, but it'd be nice if I could remap Bixby to take a screenshot. It's difficult using power + volume-down when wanting to screenshot something time sensitive (like a video), especially when you've got a super rugged case that makes some button access difficult.

girly cupcakes July 7, 2017

The app is almost great. It does what it says but my issue is when I have the phone on vibrate I don't want any noise. When I push the button it makes a beep. If on silent it won't so that's a start.

Brandon Alpha June 19, 2017

I downloaded 4-5 different apps to see which one worked the best with remapping the ridiculously useless Bixby. This one worked just as it said it does. I would like to see it have as many features as some of the others. such as being able to use two different functions (one with phone locked which I use for flashlight. And one while screen is unlocked which I use for laughing apps).

Lee Sands May 5, 2017

I wanted to change it to make movies/games full screen, which this app doesn't support. So I've put it down to 4 stars. Please make this feature available.

william sayer June 15, 2017

The Bixby button, something we all got to put up with, but this app has made it somewhat better, easily get to choose what you want the button to do. The only downfall is that there is a tiny delay which could get irritating, but again it's better than Bixby so can't complain really happy.

Oleg K June 26, 2017

Unloke other apps that all promise to remap the stupid Bixby button with no trace of thst pesky, useless app this one actually does the trick, consumer little to no memory, shows no ads and the Bixby does not jump out when you press the button! It also doesnt steal my data, does not have any weird permissions and, not sure why or how the person who built it designed to do so but... Kudos!

Dominic Leger July 19, 2017

Thank God. Even the in beta Google Assistant support works pretty well. It's clunky, but it gets the job done. One of my few flaws with this phone is solved. What they have to do next is figure out how to take hold of long pressing the button. I want the button the work the same way it did with bixby, but with Google Assistant