If you were hoping Samsung would bring back Bluetooth to the S Pen with the Galaxy S26 Ultra, don’t hold your breath. A hands-on video from YouTuber Sahil Karoul who got hold of an S26 Ultra unit before the official announcement confirms the S Pen is once again just a stylus. No Bluetooth, no remote tricks, nothing beyond what a pointy stick with pressure sensitivity can do.
Samsung pulled Bluetooth from the S Pen last year with the S25 Ultra and caught a lot of flak for it. The older Bluetooth-enabled S Pens were genuinely handy you could use them as a camera shutter button, flip through photos in the gallery, or click through presentation slides without touching the phone. Useful stuff, especially for anyone who’d built those features into their daily routine.
The removal kicked off speculation that Samsung might be planning to drop S Pen support from the Ultra line entirely. That hasn’t happened the S26 Ultra still has the stylus but it does seem like Samsung has made its mind up about Bluetooth. Two generations in a row without it is a pattern, not a one-off decision.
