A UE determines a default beam for a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) that is independent of a beam for a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH). The default PDSCH beam may be determined based on information received in a medium access control-control element (MAC-CE), or a radio resource control (RRC) message, a downlink control information (DCI). The default PDSCH beam may be determined based on at least one active transmission configuration indication (TCI) state for the PDSCH.