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restart the bluetooth service

is there a way to restart the bluetooth service on Catalina, without a reboot? Sometimes I need to reboot, to get the Mac to connect to my AirPods.

Mac mini, macOS 10.15

Posted on Aug 6, 2020 3:47 PM

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Posted on Aug 6, 2020 11:35 PM

Take a look at this thread: https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/251842/how-to-restart-bluetooth-service-from-command-line


Catalina has a bluetoothd process mentioned in the thread. Maybe you can manage to restart the daemon without rebooting.


Shift-Option on the Bluetooth menu bar icon gives you access to a Debug submenu. There you find a Reset option, though, not a restart.

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Aug 6, 2020 11:35 PM in response to rossb2

Take a look at this thread: https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/251842/how-to-restart-bluetooth-service-from-command-line


Catalina has a bluetoothd process mentioned in the thread. Maybe you can manage to restart the daemon without rebooting.


Shift-Option on the Bluetooth menu bar icon gives you access to a Debug submenu. There you find a Reset option, though, not a restart.

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