How to Use Bixby Routines on Your Samsung Phone to Automate Your Day

Samsung phones come with a plethora of features, and some are more useful than others. One of such features is Bixby Routines which can help you automate tasks on your phone based on your daily routine. It’s a great tool to save time and make your phone easier to use.

Let’s learn more about Bixby Routines, how to create a routine, and see some examples.

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What Is Bixby Routines? What Does It Do?

Bixby Routines is an automation feature that comes pre-installed on Galaxy devices. It’s a system app and can’t be uninstalled or disabled. It’s also one of themost useful features on your Samsung phoneand can help you get more things done quickly.

For instance, before going to bed every night, you might routinely reduce your screen’s brightness, turn on Do Not Disturb,play bedtime music, and more. With Bixby Routines, your phone can do all of this without your input.

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Cool, right? Let’s see how to do this on your Samsung phone.

How to Create a Custom Bixby Routine

Follow the steps below to create a routine:

Once a routine ends (either manually or automatically), these actions will be reversed so that you can quickly go back to using your phone normally.

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4 Bixby Routines Examples to Get Started

Different routines require different settings. Let’s take a look at some examples of how you can use Bixby Routines. Note that when you input an “If” command to trigger a routine, you may sometimes find some suggested “Then” actions that might be useful. Let’s begin.

Bixby Routine for Sleep

Bixby Routine for Going Out

Location-based routines cannot automatically trigger without Location turned on. If you don’t like leaving Location turned on all the time, set the routine to start manually and enable Location later.

Bixby Routine for Reading

Bixby Routine for Driving

Automate Your Samsung Phone With Bixby Routines

If you’re not already using Bixby Routines on your Galaxy device, we highly recommend you give it a go. You can make your routines as simple or complex as you’d like depending on your lifestyle. Feel free to take inspiration from the examples we’ve mentioned above.

Routines are the most useful feature of Google Assistant. Set up a few Google Assistant Routines and automate your daily life.

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