Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to systems, apparatuses, and methods for beam determination prior to an indication of an activated beam. A user equipment may receive a configuration for one or more transmission configuration indicator (TCI) states; receive downlink control information that schedules a downlink transmission after a time offset; determine, prior to receiving an indication of an activated TCI state of the one or more TCI states, a beam for receiving the downlink transmission; and receive the downlink transmission using the beam. Numerous other aspects are provided.