One of the major challenges in today's scenario is driving a Car without getting distracted by your smartphone. You listen to music through your smartphone's Bluetooth, receive calls, have urge to respond to texts and get distracted by lot of app notifications on your phone.
If you own a Samsung Galaxy Smartphone which supports the Samsung Bixby, you own one of the best AI powered app which you can customise at various levels according to your needs.
In this article:
What Bixby driving routine will do when enabled?
As soon as you sit in your car with the Bluetooth On and once your Samsung phone is automatically paired with your car Bluetooth , Bixby can do the following for you to let you drive hands free:
Voice wake-up : ON
Your phone will listen to your voice commands when you say "Hi Bixby" while driving.
Dolby Atmos : ON
Dolby Atoms settings will be switched on for Audio.
Screen Orientation: Auto rotate
Your screen will auto rotate based on the position in which phone is placed
Read Notifications aloud : Messages
Your phone will read aloud any messages received while driving. You can also customize this setting to read the text of any other apps as well.
Play Music: <select the music app>
Your phone will play music on selected installed app like Spotify, YouTube or Amazon Prime Music
Unlock Phone : ON
Your phone will be always unlocked while driving.
You can also add further actions, for example switch off the mobile data, open Google Maps etc based on your requirements.
Read Also: Play Songs on 2 Bluetooth Speakers simultaneously from Samsung Phones
How to enable and set Samsung Bixby Driving routine?
1. Access your Phone settings
2. Click on Advanced Features

3. Switch On Bixby Routines and Click on it

4. Select Driving Routines in "Discover" tab as shown below

Click on IF and select your Car Bluetooth


Click on Next

Click on Done if you are fine with default settings, else you also customise these settings as explained above.

The Bixby driving routine is now saved and will start running as soon as your phone is connected to your car Bluetooth player. The running Bixby routines appear in the notification panel of your phone.
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How to disable Bixby driving routine?
You can disable it temporarily in notification panel of your phone if you don't want it to be run on a particular day or instance.
If you want to disable it permanently, delete the Driving routine from My routines in Bixby routines.