If you’re having serious issues with a connected peripheral device like a Bluetooth keyboard or mouse, you should know that there’s a special menu option buried beneath the Bluetooth symbol near the top-right of your screen. If you’re missing that icon, you can get it to appear there by visiting System Preferences Bluetooth and checking “Show Bluetooth in menu bar.” Anyway, once you can see it, here’s the trick. If you hold down Shift-Option and then click on the icon, you’ll get a “Debug” menu to appear. Hidden under that “Debug” option are a few very useful choices. “Reset the Bluetooth module” seems to be a sort of nuke-it-from-orbit approach to Bluetooth problems that’ll completely wipe all of the hardware module’s settings. “Enable Bluetooth logging” will create a new log file (viewable within Applications Utilities Console) that you can check out if you’re great at parsing log-speak. OK, so that’s not so useful for the average person, is it?
And by “average person,” I of course mean me. The fourth option there, “Remove all devices,” would be great to know about if you were moving, say, a mouse and keyboard to a new workstation, as they’d then be easy to pair with the new Mac. But the third choice, “Factory reset all connected Apple devices,” is the one I like the best. It’ll force your Apple stuff back to factory settings, which is an incredible troubleshooting step if you’ve already tried things like turning the devices off and on again, unpairing and re-pairing, deleting Bluetooth preferences, and so on. Your Mac will give you a somewhat ambiguous (but still scary!) warning if you attempt to do this: Finally, here’s one more quick trick.
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If you hold down Shift-Option, click on the Bluetooth menu, and then select one of your connected devices, you can choose to do a factory reset on that device only. And finally finally (for real and for true this time), be aware that if you choose to do a factory reset on anything, you’ll have to re-pair it to your Mac, so on how you do so. But hopefully, whatever big bad Bluetooth problems you were having will be resolved after that, and nothing will have to get thrown at the wall or set on fire or stomped into pieces out of anger! A girl can dream. This tip was suggested by my brilliant friend Bryan Mahler. Thanks as always, dude!
I am looking to setup a Printer using the Built in Bluetooth of my Ipad 2 and 3. Everything I read, states that the Ipad uses a protocal that will only work with WiFi, and the AirPrint.
I have a need to print to either a wifi HP Photosmart device, or the request was made that I purchase a Bluetooth printer. In looking online, there are many Bluetooth printers, but in researching which one may work for me, I see a lot of negitive, about apple ipads not able to use the bluetooth, in order to print. Is this True, and if not, are there articles that would help me setup this feature on a couple ipads? If it is true, then how do I setup the ipads to print to a Wireless Printer. I currently have no wireless printers in my Wifi network.
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