Ondrej Holzman With more products and services, Apple is making more and more use of Bluetooth, which is a good communication channel in itself, but it often causes more trouble than joy for users on the Mac. If your Bluetooth isn't working as you'd like, hard resetting it might help.
To the so-called hardcore reset pointed out magazine Mac Kung Fu, according to which you should resort to the following steps when you have already exhausted all traditional solutions such as restarting the device, turning Bluetooth on/off, etc.
The following instructions will allow you to factory reset the Bluetooth system, which means, among other things, it will remove all paired devices. So if you use a Bluetooth keyboard or mouse, you need to reach for the built-in keyboards or trackpads or connect them via USB to reset the Bluetooth.
- Hold Shift+Alt (⎇) and click the Bluetooth icon in the top menu bar.
- Select in the menu Tuning (Debug) > Remove all devices (Remove All Devices). At that moment, all paired devices will stop working.
- Select again in the same menu Tuning (Debug) > Reset the Bluetooth module (Reset the Bluetooth Module).
- Restarts the Mac. Once your Mac restarts, add your Bluetooth devices as if you were setting up a new computer.
Next to the hardcore reset Bluetooth magazine Mac Kung Fu still recommended to consider in case of Bluetooth problems resetting the SMC (system management controller).
Don't you have a similar tip for getting location services up and running?
when I hold shift+alt, I can't move the mouse!
Try using the other hand :-)
you don't have anything other than embarrassing advice :) please don't write
These instructions and instructions should come from MS and not from Apple. Oh no
I don't know how well BT works for me as I don't use a BT mouse or keyboard, but doesn't it use AirDrop too? BT and WiFi should probably work there, but I really don't know exactly. I definitely have problems with AirDrop on all devices. It's a great feature, but completely unreliable - the likelihood of me sending anything through this feature is tragically low, more like a happy accident. And what is behind it, I really have no idea. I don't know what to do, I don't know where to ask, I just have something that doesn't work, but I can't do anything about it. For these reasons, I would buy AppleCare+ if we could. With Microsoft I would go to online chat with technical support, but what does Apple do in such cases? Are they crying? (don't refer me to some paid phone line - I have several devices here that are less than a year old, so I would like to solve these problems somehow for free)
I just noticed during the airdrop that my BT doesn't work
Bluetooth? Almost everything that can go wrong doesn't work on my three Macs lately :((((
The era of "It just works" is irretrievably gone...
Over the past 20 years I have had:
12 Macs, 6 of them broke
6 iPhones, I had problems with two
4 Apple monitors, one broke
Of the 22 Apple products, 9 were faulty, that's 41%. It's not a statistically representative sample, but it's probably evidence of something.
Apple is not particularly prominent in failure rate statistics. It is an average computer with a failure rate of the competition, only at higher service prices than the competition. That's all.
wouldn't there be some statistics?
http://www.dsl.sk/article.php?article=12159
There are more of them and more or less I agree
thanks, good info!
I would also like to ask about AirDrop. Since switching to iOS 9 and OS X El Capitan it doesn't work at all. Not with anyone I know. It didn't work flawlessly before either. But now not at all. It's strange that no apple website addresses this.
they rolled me...iPhone 5S and MacBook Pro Retina 13″ Mid 2014
It works, but you need to enable pairing with older devices. so I managed to pair macbook pro late 2010 with iphone 5s.
That's not the problem. I tried it on old and new devices.
If I can't connect iPhone 6 and iPad Air 2, it's probably not a problem of bad settings. Visibility set to all, tried on one wifi network and off wifi network, it should work, but it doesn't, either way. And because of that, I don't enjoy playing with it in the style of re-installing iOS on all devices, etc. - I don't have that much time and I paid a lot of tens of thousands for it. But it really sucks.