How to reset Bluetooth on iPhone?

Reset all settings is not an option for me. Don't want to spend too much time setting everything up.

Isn't 'reset network settings' supposed to wipe all Bluetooth connections and give a fresh start to the Bluetooth radio?

As far as I can tell, that is what it should do as I remember doing it once before. On iOS 13.4.1, Bluetooth is untouched when I reset network settings. If possible, you can give it a try just to confirm.

Force restart hasn't helped.

Taking it to a service center wouldn't help either. Certainly not Apple Genuius because they will wipe my phone in the name of fixing the problem. I don't need them to do that for me as I am pretty much capable of doing that myself.

As such, this bug exists and not so bad that I can't live with it.

In the whole update process, my role was limited to just keying in my pin to proceed with the update. Everything else was handled by iOS itself.

If iOS was corrupt, the update should not have happened. There should have been checks in place to prevent a corrupt software from being flashed. And I don’t think that is the case here.

Given that there is always a possibility of something going wrong, Apple should provide a simplified way to roll back to an earlier system.

My phone was perfectly fine before the update. Even now it still is, except for the Bluetooth draining battery during sleep. And Bluetooth was one of the two areas that this update was supposed to fix (it wasn’t an issue on my phone to begin with).

So penalising the customer for no fault of his is not justified. Apple should stop being arrogant and make things simpler instead of easily wiping the phone and calling itself a genius. Just as they reverted to a much older keyboard mechanism and called it a magic keyboard. Seriously audacious.

I got your point that something could have gone wrong during installation causing these glitches. I do acknowledge such things can happen. Why doesn’t Apple provide its signed firmware on its website so we can simply download and flash it? I know it is possible to do that using 3rd party sources, but i don’t want to risk using that method.

The phone belongs to the customer and he should decide which software version runs on it. An update usually brings in security improvements along with a few changes, which includes removing a feature or two. If I proceed with the update, I should have the option of going back to an earlier version, or at the very least be able to download and flash the latest software again. May be the installation would proceed without any issues this time. Even that is not possible as far as I know. It’s way too easy to ask someone to wipe the phone, do a factory reset, etc but it is far from being a simple solution. A simple solution exists but Apple doesn’t want to give it to you.

Yes, iTunes is an excellent way to backup and restore the phone, and unfortunately a similar software doesn’t exist for Android, primarily because Android is available for so many different OEMs using different hardwares and customizations. And yes, we don’t have 5 years update cycle with any Android OEMs. These are indeed strengths of the Apple products/ ecosystem.

But are these reasons to justify not providing a simple rollback or reflash solution? I didn’t do an iTunes backup before the update. I used to do them earlier, but stopped because I never had issues in the last 3.5 years of using this phone.

Apple should just answer this: Why can a customer not be allowed to download the iOS firmware (even with iTunes) and just flash it again? Because often that will solve problems created by an earlier installation. You don’t have to go through the pain of backing up all your files, doing a factory reset and then spend hours setting up the device again.