{"id":241050,"date":"2026-05-07T12:15:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T16:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/07\/samsung-keeps-reviving-bixby-in-new-ways-and-i-still-dont-know-who-its-for\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T12:30:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T16:30:07","slug":"samsung-keeps-reviving-bixby-in-new-ways-and-i-still-dont-know-who-its-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/07\/samsung-keeps-reviving-bixby-in-new-ways-and-i-still-dont-know-who-its-for\/","title":{"rendered":"Samsung keeps reviving Bixby in new ways, and I still don&#8217;t know who it&#8217;s for"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidpolice.com\/samsung-still-wants-bixby\/\">Samsung keeps reviving Bixby in new ways, and I still don&#8217;t know who it&#8217;s for<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidpolice.com\/samsung-still-wants-bixby\/\">https:\/\/www.androidpolice.com\/samsung-still-wants-bixby\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-07 12:15:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.androidpolice.com\">www.androidpolice.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Samsung\u2019s next major Android update is beginning to leak, and one of the strange changes involves Bixby.<\/p>\n<p>SamMobile reports that Samsung is testing new Bixby widgets for the home screen, including 2&#215;1, 2&#215;2, and 4&#215;2 layouts.<\/p>\n<p>One version reportedly includes a text input box, which would let users type directly to Bixby from the launcher. That is surprising because Samsung has spent its last two Galaxy S launches putting Gemini front and center.<\/p>\n<p>The company has leaned heavily on Google\u2019s assistant for AI features, and holding the side button now launches Gemini by default.<\/p>\n<p>So what exactly is Bixby doing back on the home screen? If Samsung has already given Gemini the most important assistant shortcut, the new widgets raise a bigger question about where Bixby still fits.<\/p>\n<p>                    <span data-field=\"label\" class=\"article-card-label\">Related<\/span><\/p>\n<h5 class=\"display-card-title \">\n<p>\t\t\tI thought we buried the AI button until it showed up on this phone<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p class=\"display-card-excerpt\">What&#8217;s old is new again, and it&#8217;s still bad<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"bixby-still-has-a-job-even-if-gemini-gets-the-spotlight\">\n                        Bixby still has a job, even if Gemini gets the spotlight<br \/>\n               <\/h2>\n<h3 id=\"google-talks-bixby-adjusts\">\n           &#8230;<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidpolice.com\/samsung-still-wants-bixby\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Samsung keeps reviving Bixby in new ways, and I still don&#8217;t know who it&#8217;s for&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":241052,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static0.anpoimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/glowing-bixby-icon-on-a-smartphone-screen-with-a-text-input-widget.jpg?w=1600&h=900&fit=crop","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[70,86],"class_list":["post-241050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-android","tag-google","tag-samsung"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241050"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241050"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":241053,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241050\/revisions\/241053"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}