Bixby

Raised as a usability problem by 10 people on Hacker News over 8 years (2019–2026), in 5 threads.

People raised many different problems with Bixby, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.

Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.

The newest 10 complaints

Hard to turn off and easily activated by accidental button holds2026-06-09
Samsung's Bixby UX is more irritating than other virtual assistants2022-06-14
Mom spends 20 minutes trying to get voice assistant to find a recipe2022-01-14
Dedicated button to enable Bixby is really hard to disable2020-02-18
Removing Bixby requires using ADB, a developer tool, instead of a normal uninstall2019-07-08
Remapping the Bixby hard key requires creating a Samsung account first2019-07-08
Bixby is triggered by accidentally bumping the dedicated side button2019-07-08
Users keep accidentally pressing the Bixby button and cannot disable it2019-07-08
Accidental long presses trigger Bixby while adjusting volume or holding phone2019-07-08
Remapping the Bixby button requires a Samsung account, forcing users to share personal information2019-07-07