Presented are systems, methods, apparatuses, or computer-readable media for transmission configuration indicator (TCI) switching using listen before talk (LBT) counters. A wireless communication device in an active TCI switching procedure may receive a physical data shared channel with an activation command. The wireless communication device may determine that a target TCI state is absent from an active TCI state list of the physical data shared channel. The wireless communication device may determine whether the target TCI state is known.