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Obalei Author

Level 1

1 points

Bluetooth audio lag os x el capitan

After updating from Yosemite to El Capitan the bluetooth head is extremely laggy! The sound is in sync but disappears every now and then and sometimes the bluetooth connection is dropping and tries to reconnect.

When the audio lags, the wifi mouse often lags too.

In some programs, for example Sketchup, you can´t work with it in fullscreen and split screen for it´s suddenly shifts to another window (first desk).

Have tried various solutions but nothing helps?

Trying this forum as a last resort. Then it is back to Yosemite!

Regards /Johan

MacBook Air (11-inch, Early 2014), OS X El Capitan (10.11)

Posted on Oct 5, 2015 6:41 AM

31 replies

Nov 19, 2015 2:43 AM in response to Obalei

Had very similar issues, restarting the Bluetooth solved it all for me.

Nov 19, 2015 4:39 PM in response to Obalei

Same Issue here with Bose OE SoundLink and El Capitan.

When I connect it to my iPhone sounds perfect.

SP909

Level 1

5 points

Nov 19, 2015 5:34 PM in response to Obalei

*********! How many problems am i going to have with this idiot operating system? imac 21.5, 4 months old. Not a refurb. Clean El Crapitan install 3 days ago and i didnt even recover from time machine. Clean clean. Exact same problems (amongst the others i've posted about). Sometimes the audio slows down and speeds up but the intermittent cutting out throughout playback is consistent. Dammmit Apple, fix yourselves. What the **** is going on over there? The level of absurdity with the current OS and iOS is laughable. Very disappointed. I have nothing to offer as a corrective suggestion as ive already tried everything and nothing works. Any non-Apple techies have suggestions please assist! FYI connecting to Sony 1000W home theater. Everything else plays back on it just fine (including iphone and ipad).

At least i have 800 new taco and vomit emojis with this update. Seems an appropriate time to use this one , iQuit.

Nov 30, 2015 9:32 AM in response to teledirigido

The same issue with Bose OE SoundLink and El Capitan.
After rebooting some time its ok, but then lags repeats.
Unpairing didnt work.

Dec 10, 2015 4:09 AM in response to Obalei

Same problem over here with MBP '14 and latest Yosemite and an Mac Pro 2015. Magic Mouse 1 + 2 same problem together with Harman Kardon Go+ Play

Very annoying listening to sound like this and mouse that is not working correctly.

After buying the Magic Mouse 2 and keyboard I was hoping it was gone but still there 😟

Kukkonen

Level 1

0 points

Dec 15, 2015 1:20 AM in response to Obalei

Same infuriating problem here!

Brand new iMac 27" 5K and Os X El Capitan just clean installed. My Microsoft designer mouse (because I like the scroll wheel) doesn't work properly when I have my Wave bluetooth headphones on. There were NO problems at all with these devices when used on one year older iMac with Os X Mavericks.

I noted that they seem to compete for the number 1. spot in the bluetooth settings. They chance position on the devices list every time I click the mouse and there is music playing. When the mouse is unused and it drops back to number 2. spot, it loses the connection until clicked. Music plays clearly all the time.

Just testing it with Magic Mouse 2 and my Wave headphones. No similar problems yet. Well played apple.

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Dec 19, 2015 12:20 PM in response to Johio_

Thank you for the suggestion. Tried SMC reset and various other things, but pairing the device (hifi system) again seems to have solved it (so far). Hopefully for good now.

rMBP 2015 with El Capitan.

Jan 1, 2016 3:38 AM in response to Obalei

Here the same problem on El Capitan 10.11.2 using the music receiver TP-Link HA100. When doing streaming from Spotify or iTunes the audio has clicks in and out and skips like a scratched CD! Horrible! I found an un-official solution here but it's for Yosemite.

Please solve this problem on El capitan! Let us know SOON

Jan 10, 2016 1:54 AM in response to Obalei

I had the same issue with my JBL Synchros E50BT and MBP 13" Mid 2014 on OS X 10.11.2

I've tried solutions from this article (except PRAM and SMC reset). After unpair/pair my headphones again problem dissapeared.

jpandino

Level 1

0 points

Jan 22, 2016 1:02 PM in response to Obalei

I have the Chant bluetooth speaker and the Apple mouse, disabling the bluetooth mouse at this moment got my sound working.

Feb 11, 2016 2:20 PM in response to Obalei

I am having the same problem since upgrading (?) to El Capitan. I am using Bose wireless headphones with a new 27" iMac Retina display. Did not have the problem on my old 24" iMac.

Feb 14, 2016 12:03 PM in response to Obalei

Tried SMC reset and various other things, restarting and re-pairing the device, re-nicing the bt audio daemon, disabling FaceTime and Handoff as suggested by someone on StackExchange, none of these fix the issue permanently.

Here are some logs from Bluetooth Explorer. My BT device is sitting 3 metres away from my laptop (rMBP 2015 with El Capitan 10.11.3) across the room in clear sight. The connection quality diagram is absolutely ridiculous:

Seriously Apple how hard is it to solve something like this and especially given all the complaints I've seen posted in the past 1.5 yrs? Apparently adding new emojis is more important…

Mar 15, 2016 3:16 AM in response to Volodymyr Brazhnyk

After my previous post nothing changed. I cant use my Bose bluetooth devices with iMac. I found that all problems are coming from Magic mouse. One more bug with Magic mouse + El Capitan I explored playing League of legends. I had freezes in game with Magic mouse but I have no freezes with USB mouse. Definitely El Capitan and Magic mouse are buggy. Apple engineers come on, make something with it!