And there’s no way to fix it short of flashing a new rom,as I understand. Just have to deal with the extra step now.

I was not impressed with this phone and they just keep making it less-user friendly.

I mean how the fuck are they justifying not letting you see which devices are connected to your hotspot?

Ri-diks.

Yeah, that one is pure stupidity.

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Same with wifi and I fuckin hate it. I want my 6 individual buttons that fit on one row back.

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Great big wide toggles… Totally opposite of the point of having those buttons there

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I also hate how they moved the settings button to the bottom…gotta swipe down twice to get to it. That one is less annoying because I’m not going there every day. But I toggle Wi-Fi every day…

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Me too.

I’ve used an app called Notification Toggle for years, it provides 2 rows of fully customizable buttons.

It won’t run under Android 11, though I haven’t yet tried it on anything after 11.

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Yea, what the fuck with wifi also?

“Oh we better make sure that the user only has the more cumbersome option to rapidly switch between networks but not enable and disable that feature conveniently”

There’s no way anybody is toggling through multiple Wi-Fi networks more than there are people turning their Wi-Fi on and off.

Idiotic changes.

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This is definitely a case of overloading a feature when they could just make multiple features.

I personally love the ability to easily switch the active Bluetooth device (so I love the new behaviour), but not everyone has this need.

They should just have added multiple quick settings tiles so we can all be happy.

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Right. Even if they wanted to change the behavior for everyone, this feature should have included another button that has the old behavior. More evidence that Google has long jumped the shark.

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I agree 100%.

If it’s a choice, fine.

Mandated extra step that block out personal convenient use unnecessarily?

Baffling and frustrating.

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I prefer the new behaviour for Bluetooth, just for some contrast. Should be a setting though

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That’s good to hear. I can understand why they might make this an option, but to force me to click three times instead of once is bizarre.

The toggle is in a different part of the screen, So I’ve tried switching the tile over to where the title shows up after I select Bluetooth, but making a “quick tile” slower and more cumbersome is a bizarre design choice.

Why do you like it?

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Why do you like it?

Not them but pretty simple: I swap devices more often than I turn it on/off these days

I have a smartwatch so it’s on most of the time. A pair of mobile Bluetooth headphones and a Bluetooth speaker at home, so swapping > on/off for me

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I don’t configure my smart watch (Garmin tracker) for notification, text, call access, as I prefer not to send those private communications to a third (and fourth, and fifth…) party. Also, my watch battery last three extra days if I disable Bluetooth at all tines except sync.

So for me, quick toggle was what I enjoyed.

Fuck Google… More like Microsoft every day.

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Other roms won’t fix it, Google removed the back end support for the old buttons. Calyx and graphene lost them not too long ago. Drives me mad. I used to be able to toggle bt in my pocket.

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Blech, okay, thanks

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Crawled out from under my rock and need the context. Running LOS 21 on my pixel 5 and still have toggle functionality with the March 18 update.

Edit: got the April 15 update yesterday and now I too, have no quick toggle function. Enshittification continues apace…

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Drives me mad, two clicks to do what one did before, why?!

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