Copilot key will eventually be required in new PC keyboards, though not yet.

Copilot key will eventually be required in new PC keyboards, though not yet.

  • sigmaklimgrindset@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    8·
    11 months ago

    I’m surprised people didn’t instantly remap the Bixby button to something else.

    On my S10 I had it long press to activate flashlight, and double press to silence my phone. It was really handy.

      • sigmaklimgrindset@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        4·
        11 months ago

        Maybe, but I’m trying to remember which model. My S8 and onward I always remapped my Bixby button via 3rd party app (no root) so maybe it was the S7 that wasn’t remappable?

        edit: The S8 was the first phone with the dedicated Bixby button, according to Google, so maybe it wasn’t remappable initially. I got it a year+ into it’s life cycle and I never activated Bixby

        • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.worldEnglish
          4·
          11 months ago

          Tried to look it up: https://mashable.com/article/samsung-will-let-you-customize-bixby-button

          That article claims the option came out when the s10 was out. I seem to remember being able to mod it on my phone as well S9. Can’t test it though because while I’ve had this phone for 5 years now I may have not babied it enough. The physical bixby button has fallen into the phone itself so I can hear ot rattle around. If I were speculating, I would assume it either A. became available to all 3 phones during that same software update, or we remember it sooner being part of something like putting the phone into developer mode so we could have further modifications

          • sigmaklimgrindset@sopuli.xyzEnglish
            2·
            11 months ago

            Thanks for the link! Yeah, I definitely used a 3rd party app/software to be able to remap the S8 button. I think it was called something literally like “Bixby Remapper”. I thought I used the same app for my S10 but I might have just remapped it natively.

            As an aside, my S8 is still alive and kicking after all these years, while my S10 had button problems like yours + OneUI became a buggy mess on it after a year. The build quality just doesn’t feel the same.