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Bluetooth Not Available?

Ask Different Asked on December 6, 2021

Mac OS X 10.6.4, MacBook Pro, Apple Magic Trackpad.

The trackpad is unresponsive. Right-clicking on the Bluetooth icon in the menu bar shows me gray text that says “Bluetooth not available”.

I don’t see a system preference item in which to fight with this, but I don’t see anything relevant.

7 Answers

Had this problem since 2015 and I have tried just about everything suggested by this thread similar ones. The only solution I have come across that works 100% for me is by going to System Preferences -> General -> unchecking Allow Handoff between this Mac and your iCloud devices

It has been a month of observing this problem that occured daily and never had an issue afterwards. Hope this might help some of you out there.

Answered by Alex H on December 6, 2021

In terminal, also remove the com.apple.driver.AppleBluetoothMultitouch.trackpad.plist and com.apple.driver.AppleBluetoothMultitouch.mouse.plist files from ~/Library/Preferences.

cd ~/Library/Preferences
rm com.apple.driver.AppleBluetoothMultitouch.mouse.plist
rm com.apple.driver.AppleBluetoothMultitouch.trackpad.plist

Then restart. That fixed it for me.

Answered by Daniel Rehner on December 6, 2021

Resetting the NVRAM as described here solved the issue for me:

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204063

Answered by markus on December 6, 2021

I have fixed by the same method as above. shut down, remove battery, hold down power button for 10 seconds, replace battery and re-start

Answered by Annie on December 6, 2021

I fixed it by

  1. shutting down the machine
  2. removing battery
  3. keep power button pressed for 10 sec
  4. start machine again

Answered by mtoc on December 6, 2021

According to this article, resetting the System Management Controller might to the trick.

Here's how to Reset the SMC on Apple's support site.

Answered by Loïc Wolff on December 6, 2021

Under System Preferences there should be a bluetooth preference pane. Make sure it's set to 'on' and 'discoverable'.

Answered by curtismchale on December 6, 2021

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