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How to disable bluetooth automatic turn on in Ubuntu 18.10

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  • when you first time turnoff the bluetooth and shutdown, then turn on the system.. is it turning the bluetooth on at startup? – PRATAP Nov 24 '18 at 07:40
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    in my fresh install of Ubuntu 18.10, before shutting down, what is its state, i.e on or off.. after reboot it is in the same state when shutting down. – PRATAP Nov 24 '18 at 07:43
  • Bluetooth always turns on automatically when I power on my system, when I turn bluetooth off and reboot, my system has bluetooth turned on when I unlock. – Shameek Nov 24 '18 at 11:41
  • is your laptop having physical key to turn bluetooth on or off and in BIOS settings are there anything related to it? – PRATAP Nov 24 '18 at 11:57
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    The question has been asked about previous Ubuntu versions, do none of those answers work? https://askubuntu.com/search?q=%5Bbluetooth%5Ddisable+start – Jeremy31 Nov 24 '18 at 12:41
  • PRATAP No my computer doesn't have a bluetooth key and there is no bluetooth options in the BIOS. – Shameek Nov 24 '18 at 18:36
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    Jeremy31 No those don't work, they are for older versions of ubuntu my versions doesn't have those files in those directories. – Shameek Nov 24 '18 at 18:38
  • Do you have anything (mouse, radio dongle) plugged in the USB ports? If yes, does bluetooth also start on startup when you turn it off, unplug the USB stuff and reboot? – Anushka--x Jan 16 '19 at 16:35
  • sudo systemctl disable bluetooth.service .... see duplicate question I linked to in above comment ... and yes this works on 18.10 too – Scott Stensland Mar 14 '19 at 11:46

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This AskUbuntu answer was the one that do it for me.

It uses systemctl to turn off the bluetooth.service:

to deactivate bluetooth on startup issue this

sudo systemctl disable bluetooth.service
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    Just to add, you can reference and quote any answers you like in your answer but DO NOT post an answer that is just a link to another. Make it your own, use your own word and just quote the relevant part of the other answer. This "There is a solution in this post [LINK]", is not an acceptable answer. – Daniele Santi Mar 14 '19 at 13:39