Bidirectional optical flow (BDOF) may be bypassed, for a current coding block, based on whether symmetric motion vector difference (SMVD) is used in motion vector coding for the current coding block. A coding device (e.g., an encoder or a decoder) may determine whether to bypass BDOF for the current coding block based at least in part on an SMVD indication for the current coding block. The coding device may obtain the SMVD indication that indicates whether SMVD is used in motion vector coding for the current coding block. If SMVD indication indicates that SMVD is used in the motion vector coding for the current coding block, the coding device may bypass BDOF for the current coding block. The coding device may reconstruct the current coding block without performing BDOF if it determines to bypass BDOF for the current coding block.