{"id":333863,"date":"2026-03-11T17:12:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T17:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/333863\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T17:12:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T17:12:13","slug":"galaxy-s26-switching-to-hey-perplexity-wake-word","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/333863\/","title":{"rendered":"Galaxy S26 switching to &#8216;Hey Perplexity&#8217; wake word"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t<img width=\"1600\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/galaxy-s26-perplexity-1.jpg\" class=\"skip-lazy wp-post-image\" alt=\"\"  decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Samsung announced previously that the Galaxy S26 series would support a \u201cHey Plex\u201d wake word for the Perplexity app, but this is now changing to \u201cHey Perplexity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/2026\/03\/10\/galaxy-s26-series-is-already-getting-its-first-update-and-its-still-sort-of-late\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">first software update<\/a> for the Galaxy S26 series is now rolling out and, with it, the \u201cHey Plex\u201d wake word has vanished. That was noticed by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sammobile.com\/news\/galaxy-s26-first-update-appears-remove-hey-plex-feature\/#goog_rewarded\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">SamMobile<\/a>, who also shared screenshots of what the always-listening hotword experience looked like.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-wp-class--hide=\"state.isContentHidden\" data-wp-class--show=\"state.isContentVisible\" data-wp-init=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" data-wp-on--click=\"actions.showLightbox\" data-wp-on--load=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" data-wp-on-window--resize=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" height=\"1024\" width=\"473\" data-id=\"707940\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/hey-plex-sm-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-707940\"  \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-wp-class--hide=\"state.isContentHidden\" data-wp-class--show=\"state.isContentVisible\" data-wp-init=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" data-wp-on--click=\"actions.showLightbox\" data-wp-on--load=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" data-wp-on-window--resize=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" height=\"1024\" width=\"473\" data-id=\"707942\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/hey-plex-sm-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-707942\"  \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-wp-class--hide=\"state.isContentHidden\" data-wp-class--show=\"state.isContentVisible\" data-wp-init=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" data-wp-on--click=\"actions.showLightbox\" data-wp-on--load=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" data-wp-on-window--resize=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" height=\"1024\" width=\"473\" data-id=\"707943\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/hey-plex-sm-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-707943\"  \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-wp-class--hide=\"state.isContentHidden\" data-wp-class--show=\"state.isContentVisible\" data-wp-init=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" data-wp-on--click=\"actions.showLightbox\" data-wp-on--load=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" data-wp-on-window--resize=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" height=\"1024\" width=\"473\" data-id=\"707941\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/hey-plex-sm-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-707941\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>But it\u2019s not gone for good.<\/p>\n<p>Confirmed by Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/AravSrinivas\/status\/2031400892038263151\" rel=\"nofollow\">on Twitter\/X<\/a>, the Galaxy S26 series will not be removing this feature permanently, but instead, it has simply been removed temporarily while the two companies are updating the wake word to \u201cHey Perplexity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\tAdvertisement &#8211; scroll for more content<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s no stated reason for why the wake word is changing, but it\u2019s not hard to imagine that a certain other company might have had a problem with the \u201cHey Plex\u201d choice. That\u2019s purely speculation on our part, though. We\u2019ll update this article if any new information comes to light.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, you can still use \u201cHey Google\u201d for Gemini or \u201cHey Bixby\u201d for Bixby, because these phones have so many options.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"516\" height=\"153\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1773249132_854_image.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-707945\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>More on Galaxy S26:<\/p>\n<p>Follow Ben:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NexusBen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Twitter\/X<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.threads.net\/@nexusben\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Threads<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/nexusben.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bluesky<\/a>, and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/nexusben\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Instagram<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/google.com\/preferences\/source?q=https:\/\/9to5google.com\" aria-label=\"Add 9to5Google as a preferred source on Google\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"google-preferred-source-badge-dark\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/google-preferred-source-badge-dark.png\" alt=\"Add 9to5Google as a preferred source on Google\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"google-preferred-source-badge-light\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/google-preferred-source-badge-light.png\" alt=\"Add 9to5Google as a preferred source on Google\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"disclaimer-affiliate\">FTC: We use income earning auto affiliate links. <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/about\/#affiliate\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">More.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Samsung announced previously that the Galaxy S26 series would support a \u201cHey Plex\u201d wake word for the Perplexity&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":333864,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[345,343,344,85,46,125],"class_list":{"0":"post-333863","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-il","12":"tag-israel","13":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=333863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333863\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/333864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}