Why Android will always keep Bluetooth enabled on your mobile even if you disable it

Some of the new features coming to Android 15 are starting to become known and one of them will be the private space to hide apps and notifications. Google is also behind the integration of an automatic process: Activation of Bluetooth the next day even if it is deactivated.

In the early years of Android, it was mandatory to turn off GPS and Bluetooth, because both connections They put a lot of pressure on the battery almost “eating” it if they haven’t logged out. Today we face a different situation and cell phones “almost don’t feel” when both connections are active, apart from the fact that they are important for using functions such as Google’s Quick Share.

Thanks to the network Find my device —that Google will finally start deploying in order to find a lost mobile device— which requires the use of Bluetooth so that millions of devices “find each other” and thus establish a sort of massive mesh of connections, activating Bluetooth is essential.

Bluetooth and Find my device

And this connection emits a beacon to nearby devices for them to receive and each person’s location is encrypted so that the lost device can finally be found. And this vast matrix does not even need to turn on the device, Bluetooth therefore becomes a basic component for the network Find my device the Google.

If a user disconnects Bluetootha node of the vast range of devices Find my device it will “shut down” and the network will lose efficiency, not only because the user’s device cannot be found, but also because it will not help others find theirs.

Better understand how it works Find my device you can give a better answer to the question why Google Now you want your mobile’s Bluetooth connection to always be active. And yes, this has its logic, especially if you want to be aware of the experiences that mobile phones offer with their technologies.

Could it be completely disconnected?

Renowned Android expert Mishaal Rahman discovered in previous versions of Android some references to the “Bluetooth auto-on” functionality, which automatically activates the Bluetooth connection. When this feature is active and the user tries to disable this connection through the Android shortcut panel, a new message introduced in one of the latest Android 14 updates will appear.

Precisely the ‘automatically reactivate tomorrow’ button would appear. Enabling this feature could read text informing the user that functions such as Quick Share, Find My Device, and user location are using the Bluetooth connection.

There are some important pointsaccording to Mishaal Rahman in Android Authorityso that this new feature finally arrives, probably in a beta version of Android 15:

• User should be able to override the button Automatically turn Bluetooth on and off as usual.
• Automatic activation function It can only be activated from system applications and not from third parties.
• API is not limited to Android 15this experience could therefore be activated in previous versions like Android 14.
• It won’t be on all devices due to a hardware support issue, even though it was available in a version prior to Android 15.

Of course, when this new feature arrives on Android 15, may be subject to certain limitations and maybe it is not even possible to disable the option to enable only Bluetooth the next day when the user does it from the Android quick access panel.