Bluetooth, like many wireless devices, uses the 2.4GHz wireless channel. In areas with a lot of wireless signals, your wireless keyboard or mouse might have trouble staying connected to your Apple Macintosh computer.
While this use to be an easy problem too correct. In macOS Monterey, Apple have removed the ability to reset the bluetooth module from the menu bar. So in this video, we demonstrate how we use a terminal command to restart the bluetooth module in our computer.
Note: If you’re having trouble connecting Bluetooth devices, try rebooting your computer. Sometimes, a simple reboot can do wonders. But here’s something we’ve found works even better: resetting the Bluetooth module from the Terminal. macOS seems to be better at finding a clear Bluetooth channel to use.
- From the macOS desktop we first need to open a Terminal window
- As we have no mouse control, we are going to use Spotlight Search to open a Terminal window
- By holding down Command and then pressing the Space bar on our keyboard. A Spotlight search will open
- Now type Terminal and press enter on the keyboard
Note: Just a heads up, we’ll need admin rights to reset the Bluetooth module on our computer. Unless you’re using macOS with elevated admin privileges, that is.
- Type the following to give yourself administrative rights
su [administrator account name]
- You will the administrators password
- Now to reset the bluetooth module type:
sudo pkill bluetoothd
- After pressing enter on the keyboard, macOS will reset the bluetooth module in your computer and your bluetooth device should reconnect.
- You will once again be asked for the administrators password.
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