Has anyone else been having issues with their Samsung Galaxy S8's Bluetooth functionality ever since the Android Pie update a few weeks ago? It stopped working properly for me as soon as I updated it. What happens: I slide down the notification menu, click Bluetooth, the button becomes highlighted but if I slide the menu back up and then down again, it will no longer be highlighted. If I don't slide it back up after pressing it, the button stays highlighted but the Bluetooth doesn't actually turn on, and as soon as I go back to my home screen the button is off again. The only way I can get it to work is to press the Bluetooth button whilst it is changing to airplane mode (during the 3-4 seconds it takes to turn on airplane mode.) Sometimes it won't even change when it's already in airplane mode so I have to do it in the little time it takes to toggle airplane mode. Yes, I have tried to turn it on from the actual settings menu as well, but to no avail. I've not been seeing too much about this online so I was wondering if this is more of a unique issue in my Galaxy or if others have also been having problems, and if so, have you found a permanent fix?
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Help Bluetooth not working on S8 after Pie update
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just curious have you tried this issue in safe mode? it will determine if it is a software issue or not.
just curious have you tried this issue in safe mode? it will determine if it is a software issue or not.
My BT is always on and connected to a smart watch. However, I turned it off and then back on again from the pull down menu and all seems to be in working order. S8+ here. I'd exhaust all options before resetting your S8 but sometimes that's what it takes to get a major update to settle in properly. Good luck
Ooh.. How about just a normal reboot of the Samsung
Cheers for the replies. I have restarted my phone since I updated it to Pie, yes, but that doesn't seem to have done anything. I haven't yet tried turning it on in safe mode but obviously I'd rather not have to keep my phone in safe mode every time I wanna connect to my speakers 
I think it's unlikely to be a hardware issue as I can guarantee it started happening the moment I updated to Pie, but I'll give it a go anyway just in case and report back. So no one with an S8 recently updated to Pie has this issue?
I think it's unlikely to be a hardware issue as I can guarantee it started happening the moment I updated to Pie, but I'll give it a go anyway just in case and report back. So no one with an S8 recently updated to Pie has this issue?
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My daughter uses BT on an S8 running android 9 without problems. So it certainly isn't a universal problem with 9 and the S8.