iOS26 Bluetooth and Settings woes

[UKgaryb]

I'm really not a fan of the look and feel of iOS 26, the animations are garbage and just add way too much latency to the whole feel of the OS, the clear buttons look awful.

Anyway It's no fun spending 15 mins by the side of your car in the rain because Apple have f**ked up the whole OS. I'm having MAJOR issues with Bluetooth (My car key is Bluetooth) and the whole settings app.

I went to disable/re-enable Bluetooth in the settings because I couldn't get into my car and the whole phone crashed and rebooted. Now when I go into settings I cannot get into ANY sub menu, even after rebooting the phone....

Anyone else had this issue? I was on the fence about abandoning Apple due to the look and feel, but fundamental system operations are just a deal breaker.

---- Debugging -----

Seems to be if I use the Tesla app and keep it open, trying to access Bluetooth from the apple settings app crashes the settings app and I can't access any menu item. and bluetooth stack crashes and I cannot turn on Bluetooth from the control centre.

This is not just happening with Tesla app either seems to be any app controlling Bluetooth - B&W Headphones or Nothing X app.

 

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You don't mention which phone you have, could be that Apple screwed up support for another device, like they've borked macOS 26 for any M3 Max owners.

Or it could be that you have some sort of bluetooth hardware issue.

Or it could be that your bluetooth settings are corrupted. On Mac we can just delete the .plist file.