Bluetooth not available on Mac

Hi all,

I did say the problem still persists in Mojave. However, in my case, for about a month now, turning off the 'Handoff' feature can get rid of may be 90% of the problem in Mojave. Out of ten there may be once the bluetooth is disabled completely that I need to restart the machine. But so far it's pretty good workaround I can find now.

System Preferences > General > [ ] Allow Handoff between this Mac and your iCloud devices

Thanks hail to the thief and I tried your suggestion but no luck. The bluetooth disappeared completely a few times a day (even now) that some times I need to restart 3 or 4 times until getting my bluetooth module back on my task bar. And the connectivity drops a few times a day that I need to have 2 thunder cables standby rather than spending huge amount of time on this tiny task to gain my control back. I will be in touch with the Apple technical guy again tomorrow and will forward him the bug report as you suggested. So stay tuned!

This has been a frustrating issue for me too. There seems to be a bunch of workarounds to make it work for a while... so here is another very quick one that works for me: System settings/Advanced/uncheck "Allow Bluetooth unities to wake up computer"

Just want to share with you guys that I think I'm almost reaching a solution for MacBook Pro early-2015 users as well. The thing is, I had decided to clean format my hard drive, and reinstalled macOS Mojave. Only with the second wake-up from the sleep, without ANY THIRD PARTY SOFTWARES installed yet at the time, the Bluetooth module just crashed as usual.

So, I reformatted the drive again but this time, I didn't sign-in my iCloud account and immediately disable the 'Allow Handoff between this Mac and your iCloud devices'. Guess what, my bluetooh module has worked flawlessly for about a week now!!! I've managed to install all the third-party applications I needed and so far everything is FINE!

I'll keep using my Mac without signing-in my iCloud account for a few more days to make sure the bluetooth bug is gone. And I'll update you guys if the problem comes back after I enable the iCloud feature in the System Preference.

Some months ago I had the same issue. I restarted my Mac but it was in vain. The clear information I found here https://osxtips.net/bluetooth-not-available-mac/

Use some of their tipps, that can help=)

I have the same problems with a completely new iMac 27 with Mojave. I have even sent it back to the store because I needed to rebeoot the iMac at least twice in order to see the bluetooth device (the internal one). And apart from this, the keyboard, nouse and trackpad disconnects sometimes only for seconds... and other times for longer ime until I co nnect trackpad with a cable and restart the bluetooth device. And, as I said, I even had to rebootr the iMac twice becuase it did not recognize its internal bluetooth device..... At this momento I am waiting for an answer from the store but.... Should I understand that this is going to keep on happening even with a new iMac if the store change it for a new one ?

Same Issue with a lot of MBP 13 2014 & 2015 models.

I have around 10 macs doing the same in my office.

Deleting the plist and resetting the nvram did not help.

Apple needs to fix this ASAP.

I have the same problem with bluetooth Apple keyboard and Apple mouse.

MacOS 10.13.2

Apple, please fix this issue ASAP!

This is frustrating! Some detailed console information posted here.

After installing High Sierra, Bluetooth is experencing issues

Try resetting the SMC (again) and NVRAM.

Frankly, it is so intermittent I would suspect hardware. As you know, intermittent hardware problems are very difficult to diagnose and/or fix.

Barry

I have this same problem 10.13.1 on mid 2012 Macbook Pro. Tried deleting the plist and now just tried:

http://osxdaily.com/2015/12/15/reset-bluetooth-hardware-module-mac-osx/

Will see if either help.

Thanks this worked! (at least for now!) Very frustrating that this issue is weeks old and Apple has not addressed it!

I have also been having this problem since 10.13.1 on my mid-2012 MacBook Pro. I did not have any bluetooth issues with previous OS versions.

Same issue here - Early 2015 MBP running High Sierra 10.13.1 random Bluetooth issue - it's not hardware, hope there will be a fix soon Apple

The following workaround is working for me:

System Preference -> General -> Deselect "Allow Handoff between this Mac and your iCloud services".

Then restart compute.