This toggle is annoying because what was once 1 press to turn on BT is now 2. It gets me every day.
They need to add a way to quick toggle it, maybe a double tap or hold.
Tap and hold should bring this menu up. Tap should just toggle it. It’s stupid.
Isn’t this how it used to work? I hate the double toggle too.
Yuuuup
I was literally mini ranting to my partner about it yesterday. I keep my bluetooth off unless I’m actively using it so it’s annoying. Hold still brings you to the bluetooth settings.
What’s even more annoying is aside from the internet, every other bubble is a toggle on mine so you’re now mixing actions on the same looking icons.
Edit: apparently I missed the little tiny arrow in the corner, that should tip me off of the entire different behaviour
I thought this was only on graphene, as a way to confirm your wanted Bluetooth radio turned on. As a general Android update, it makes no sense
What version are you on? 15? I’m on 14, and for me it’s as it ever was. Also, can you replace it by editing the Shortcuts? I was able to replace the Internet thingy with separate toggles for Mobile Data/WiFi by doing that.
I’m on 14 but on a Pixel 8 and it’s like OP shows now. Clicking the button on the quick menu just opens the screen OP is showing instead of turning off the BT radio like it did on my previous phone, which was also on Android 14.
For some reason, certain features and UI changes don’t happen for every device even if they’re on the same version of the OS. Like every phone maker has their own tweaked version of it for their specific phone, and it’s not a universal experience for everyone just being on Android.
I mean, sure, but both lineage and the stock rom on pixels should be reasonably close to stock Android, compared to stuff like, for example, MI UI.
The “stock” rom offered by Google’s own devices seems “enhanced” to the stock android given to any other device. But even between them, there are odd differences. My sister has a Pixel 7, just 1 iteration behind mine, and on the same OS version; but the UI isn’t exactly the same. I can see special apps not being for hers, like Gemini (and even features of Gemini I do not have but the 8 Pro does); but for the basic settings menu and quick menu and shit to be different is weird as hell.
Yeah, dunno what Google’s on. I’ve noticed that on my brothers pixel, it’s not possible to deactivate the visual guide in the bottom of the screen for gesture navigation. The option just doesn’t appear in his settings. It’s all a bit silly.
Hello, fellow kde connect user.
Uh, this is kinda awkward, but I actually use a Gnome extension to be able to use KDE Connect.
Edit: Oh, wait, I read KDE instead of KDE Connect. Well, ignore the above, then.
I’m on 14 on a Google pixel 6 pro. I tried what you suggested but there’s no option to alter it, but thanks.
Hmh. Annoying. I’m on lineage, and I noticed that the stock Pixel Rom seems to be more limited like that in some ways.
Fuck this noise! Hate it.
It follows the pattern for WiFi/Internet.
This was my thought. I often turned my Bluetooth off while trying to switch devices because of habits from the Wi-Fi
I appreciate the consistency. I’ve turned off Bluetooth accidentally too.
Which was also a terrible change.
I was just grumbling about this today. It’s one of those little changes that might help someone, but interrupts a flow that worked well for me.
Same. I was sure it’s me doing something wrong.
But I don’t even like those larger icons. I want the smaller circles like before.
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I have the opposite. I have never a reason to turn off Bluetooth, but always want to connect of disconnect devices. this is so much better than long pressing.
Yeah they built this UI on the assumption that people didn’t turn off their BT generally. This is an improvement for me but I really don’t see why they can’t make it an option for people.
It’s not an assumption. They obviously have telemetry that shows the vast majority of people never turn Bluetooth or WiFi off.
…or maybe the people who turn off Bluetooth also tend to disable/block telemetry.
And that group is also an incredibly small outlier, and wouldn’t be considered in their calculations.
Unfortunately I suppose thats the equivalent of refusing to vote.
Ummm… this also happened for WiFi as far as I can tell…
Yeah I don’t turn that off generally either but you’re right the wifi panel has been like this for a bit and now it’s consistent.
I was like you once until I got a speaker for the bathroom and now the wife and I fight over it…
If we both have BT on, the speaker will connect to the last phone which is almost always the wrong one… And then the yelling fest starts so the other turns it off
Yeah. That’s my use case as well. I rather liked this. Even if I want to turn off BT, this is just one small button more that’s almost underneath the fingertip on my phone when you press the bt.
I turn it off daily. I have 2 phones and I don’t want to connect my personal phone to my BT speaker at work. I can see where you’re coming from though.
I don’t want to connect my personal phone to my BT speaker at work
I’m confused, do you shuttle the same speaker between work and home or is work a separate speaker? If it’s a separate speaker why don’t you just delete it’s pairing from your personal phone?
I just leave it at work. I will do that lol. I forgot I could do that, thanks.
Supermarkets and malls etc, use Bluetooth beacons to track, and profile you. I’m always turning mine off, when in those kind of places.
I think this is the reason why Google implemented it. They already track you over Wi-Fi when you do not explicitly turn off the option, so Bluetooth is going the same route
My wife’s car is extremely aggressive. The second she turns it on, it steals my Bluetooth connection. I could be mowing my lawn, listening to music on my phone, then suddenly hear nothing, and it’s because my wife got in her car and was suddenly blasted with my tunes.
I tell my phone to forget her car’s Bluetooth connection, but then I’m constantly harassed by pop-ups on my phone every minute saying her car wants to pair with my phone. I can’t get it to stop pinging me. It sees a Bluetooth device in range and then spams it, trying to connect.
So yes, I like to keep my Bluetooth off until I want to use it.
Sounds like your phone is top priority. Either clear it off the car or move her’s up to the top spot.
Some cars it doesn’t matter - it will attempt to connect to whatever device it sees.
If it happens to see his first, it connects.
I’ve seen these problems for years with integrated BT in cars. I hate it.
The best answer I’ve found is to pair, then turn off all connectivity within that Bluetooth connection on my phone.
Does she have a mazda?? Mine does the same thing 😅
Nope, a Subaru. I drive a Mazda and I don’t have this issue.
Tell the car to forget your phone?
That’s a temporary fix, because oop may drive that car at times as well. I have the exact same problem
Have a dig through the cars Bluetooth settings and see if you can delete the pairing from that end.
I’ve done that, but it still pings every Bluetooth connection it sees, whether it recognizes it or not.
Her car had some class-action lawsuit recently because its integrated satellite radio service was constantly pinging for a connection, whether you had the service or not. If the car wasn’t driven in a few days, the battery would be completely drained. And you couldn’t jump it yourself; it had to be towed to a shop so they could use some special machine to jump and charge it.
That issue has been settled, but now its Bluetooth is basically doing the same thing. Fortunately only while the car is on, but still.
Hmm. Well that sucks.
Personally; I refuse to connect a phone to a car via Bluetooth. Too many reports of cars harvesting every available bit of info it can access from the connection and storing/uploading it inaccessible/immovable to the owner.
Aux cable, fm transmitter, or deal with the radio.
Sounds like you need to give it something to connect to. Buy a cheap analog-to Bluetooth transmitter, charge it from the car and just never turn it off. You’d need to do some research to find one which doesn’t go to sleep. If you need to use your phone in the car, just turn the transmitter off.
It’s a pain if you share a car. Whoever starts the car gets to interrupt the other one’s phone call.
Our car does this as well, but then when I get in it sometimes just refuses to connect automatically, so this actually helps me immensly.
this entire quick actions shade was redesigned either for children or for elders
the space now used for 4 quick actions could fit 12 quick actions before
I’m glad I’m not the only one feeling this way.
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Does it not turn on Bluetooth before opening that menu?
It does for me.
Bluetooth on: single tap turns it off.
Bluetooth off: single tap turns it on and opens that menu so you can select a device to connect to. (it still connects to the last connected device automatically) From there tapping back or tapping beside it closes it.
Been that way for several years now. (Samsung A54, and A52 prior to this one)
You have a Samsung, so you can avoid Google’s UI dumbing down.
Nope.
But anymore no. Surprise, bitch!
Not on my Pixel 8. Single tap on the Bluetooth button only opens the Bluetooth connection screen with a separate toggle to actually turn on Bluetooth once you’re in there. Google likes to do things the hard way.
Ah… Google devices…
I’m much less confused.
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I just drag down from the top of the screen, and tap the Bluetooth button. That’s it. The Bluetooth connection screen pops up, but that doesn’t turn on Bluetooth. I have tap the toggle to actually turn on Bluetooth, just like OP describes. I have a Pixel 8 with stock Android 14.
I honestly thought this was my own doing and was about to go insane when I couldn’t find the setting to revert this. Why on earth would they do this…
I’ve felt this a lot over the years. Regressions in interface designs happen here and there, and I feel it’s just people justifying their jobs. We have to change this, and that, and EVERYTHING, to keep it fresh. Where in reality, sometimes only some things need changing.
I put buttons on screens for people at work and I’m imagining the fury that would rain down on me if I put 2 buttons in place do a normal thing that was once one button. I would never hear the end of it.
You’re not wrong, but you just reminded me to setup some Tasker events to manage my BT enabled state.
I miss the 6 small buttons
Fuck Google’s recent changes to the quick settings panel, really. Especially now that One UI 6 didn’t revert those changes like it was done with One UI 5.