What happened to QuickShare?It now requires Bluetooth to be manually acti

[Tahs_03]

Samsung's QuickShare now requires for Bluetooth to be activated on both the sending and receiving devices so that it can "find the nearby devices". No *****, that's exactly how Bluetooth works, but you see, there's a reason why it's called QuickShare instead of just effing "Bluetooth". That was the whole point! There's a reason I purposefully bought two Samsung devices: so that I can transfer files seamlessly, without having to MANUALLY turn on Bluetooth first, on both of my devices. What an absolute downgrade! This is an unilateral change of the contract to which I never gave my consent to! 

Listen, I don't care about your nonsense merger with Nearby Share, it's not my fault Google can't program one single functioning software and needs to leech into other to keep their selves afloat, okay?! For god sake, return me the services that I paid for!! (by buying two Samsung devices)

[NoCoolNameLeft4Me]

Both the old iteration of QuickShare and the new merge use Bluetooth and Wifi Direct , nothing changed, even previously. What changed was having one share mode instead of two and expanding to not only Samsung devices but also other Android phones.
Bluetooth previously worked in the background, meaning your Bluetooth toggle never changed as it acted as a temporary process only during Quick Share use. Now with the expansion to all android phones , instead of being a background process , the Bluetooth gets toggled on automatically.

[Tahs_03]

"bluestooth gets toggled on automatically" except it doesn't. I wouldn't have any complaints if only it did so automatically, but the thing is, I now have to MANUALLY turn on Bluetooth on both of my Samsung devices to be able to transfer some files. And again, that defeats the whole purpose of "QUICKshare, cause it's no longer that quick and seamless. And listen I'm generally a big fan of integration between all devices, from all manufacturers, but this is not how you do it. U shouldn't just downgrade a perfectly functioning system on so many samsung devices for integration: that's just a low-effort shortcut. U should instead work on upgrading all the other devices to galaxy standards (so that Bluetooth gets activated automatically on other devices too)

[NoCoolNameLeft4Me]

It is automatic. Previously you left the quickShare toggled on otherwise the recieving device would never popup as a device to select when sending files. That acted in the same functionality as having your bluetooth on as it did require bluetooth to popup in the nearby area of your sending device. Thing is that bluetooth communication was only used on quickShare ,thus no need to set the toggle of the device ON. Now when it happens , it turns ON also the toggle as the Bluetooth process was extracted out of the quickshare list of processes as an independent process. I dont see the problem of having Bluetooth on at all times in this case. The bluetooth modem is very low energy and you used it regardless even before if you had your QuickShare visibility on.

To sum up. What has happened from a technical standpoint is that 2 apps that did almsot the same thing got merged together, generalizing both functionalities for the good of cross compatability. That meant that processes that were once incorporated but existed also as an outside independent process ,now have become 1. That is the Bluetooth, that before was used in the background (for visibility on QuickShare for example) , now is in the foreground (toggle is switched ON). This way if you switch off Bluetooth , you cut off any single functionality that also relies on the bluetooth modem, how it was supposed to work from a logical standpoint. 

[Cornelia_L]

Hi Tahs_03, welcome to Samsung Community!

I inform you that Quick Share normally requires bluetooth to allow sharing with nearby devices. However, if bluetooth connection is disabled on your device, Quick Share activates it automatically: you should see a popup that inform you about enabling the connection.

Does your device not automatically activate BT?

Could you please tell me which Galaxy device do you have? 

Have a nice day!

Bye

[Members_bBnJWKD]

I have the same problem and i hate it, Bluetooth doesnt turn on automatically and i have to click "activate" on the pop-up and then wait for it to eventually turn on and find my connected devices😐

[Virginia_G]

Hi Members_bBnJWKD, welcome to Samsung Community!

Could you please tell me which Galaxy device do you have?

Proceed as follows:

- Settings
- Applications
- Personal Applications > Three lines with down arrow
- Show system applications (option to be activated)
- Bluetooth
- Storage memory
- Clear cache
- Clear data

This procedure will unpair any Bluetooth devices currently configured on your phone.

Let me know?

Have a nice day!