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App Control Lacking?

(Topic created on: 12-14-2017 04:43 PM)
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SiriuslyAndrew
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I'm finding the app control with Bixby significantly worse than Google's voice. I have a 3rd party music app that she wants nothing to do with, constantly telling me I need to download Google play music. Also when asking about weather in other cities she seems to default to US states instead of local territory (BC Canada). While I'm sure the 24 degree weather in Hope Arkansas is great I'm more interested in Hope BC.

Any find similar issues and ways to change default apps that Bixby uses?
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This used to be an issue, but it works for me now simply by saying "play music"

just out of curiosity what are you saying to try and get Bixby to play music via google play?
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SiriuslyAndrew
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"Hi, Bixby. Skip this song." "Next song" and similar phrasing.

Works with Ok Google but Bixby goes right to Google play. The player I'm using is Player Pro.
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Jonathan34
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Galaxy S
Yeah, given that Bixby is less than a year old, it still has a long way to go. Google Assistant has been around for quite sometime so it has more functionality but still can't do stuff that Bixby does.

Good news is that Bixby 2.0 is on the way and they're giving support to developers for Bixby so Third Party devs like Player Pro will be able to build in the support for Bixby so it will get much better.
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shaggyskunk
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Galaxy S
I'll have to admit that Bixby isn't half bad - I DO like some of the things that it can do - Google Assistant is still my preference, but as you said Bixby is still relatively new.
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Moderator_
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Hey @SiriuslyAndrew, thanks for sharing your frustrations about Bixby with us. As other users have stated, Bixby is still fairly new so we're still in the process of tweaking and improving things. We'd appreciate your patience along the way as we try to make Bixby better!

-Nick
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