Among the voice assistants that common on our smartphones now, one of the earliest attempts was S Voice from Samsung. It was the predecessor to Samsung’s Bixby, and they have announced that they will finally kill support for S Voice completely from June 1, 2020.
The voice assistant first made an appearance on the Samsung Galaxy S3 and then came in-built in subsequent phones. Samsung is known to have their first party alternatives for nearly every service and the S Voice was their voice assistant app, sort of as a competitor to Apple’s Siri. Samsung later introduced their new voice assistant platform called Bixby, which was a lot more advanced.
S Voice remained unpopular throughout its existence and Samsung is finally deciding to kill the service effective June 1, 2020. The affected devices include:
- Galaxy A3
- Galaxy A5
- Galaxy A7
- Galaxy A8
- Galaxy A9
- Galaxy Note FE
- Galaxy Note 2
- Galaxy Note 3
- Galaxy Note 4
- Galaxy Note 5
- Galaxy S3
- Galaxy S4
- Galaxy S5
- Galaxy S6,
- GalaxyS6 Edge
- Galaxy Note Pro 12.2
- Galaxy W
- Galaxy Tab 4
- Galaxy Tab 4 8.0/10.1
- Galaxy Tab S8.4 and S10.5