{"id":229587,"date":"2017-09-18T15:50:10","date_gmt":"2017-09-18T13:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=229587"},"modified":"2017-09-18T15:51:43","modified_gmt":"2017-09-18T13:51:43","slug":"samsung-lets-users-disable-bixby-button","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/smartphones\/229587-samsung-lets-users-disable-bixby-button.html","title":{"rendered":"Samsung lets users disable Bixby button"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Samsung is letting users disable the dedicated\u00a0Bixby key on certain devices, according to a report by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2017\/09\/18\/galaxy-s8-owners-can-finally-disable-the-bixby-button\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Engadget<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The report stated that while the key can be disabled, it does appear that it can be remapped &#8211; adding that Samsung previously had no plans to allow this.<\/p>\n<p>Samsung reportedly allowed the disabling of the Bixby key due to customer complaints.<\/p>\n<p>The report stated that the Bixby assistant was not always required by users, who had alternative artificial intelligent assistants on their devices.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/smartphones\/229581-samsung-galaxy-note-8-telkom-freeme-contract-prices.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Samsung Galaxy Note 8 \u2013 Telkom FreeMe contract prices<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Samsung is letting users disable the dedicated\u00a0Bixby key, according to a report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":213374,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17934],"tags":[42076,645],"class_list":["post-229587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-smartphones","tag-bixby","tag-samsung"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229587"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229587"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":229591,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229587\/revisions\/229591"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}