Mojave bluetooth connection -- audio issues

I have a MacBook Pro A1502 ME865LL/A (Late 2013 Haswell)

Same issue. At first my Studio 3 Beats connect fine, but the kept cutting in and out every second, making their use unbearable. Now they aren't connecting at all. Not sure what's going on. Mojave is running great otherwise. I'll try updating my Beats Studio headphones.

I was able to connect one time out of about 30 attempts. When it connected changing the volume on the MacBook did not change the volume on my headphones. And changing the volume via my headphones did not change the volume. The volume remained at the same level. I ended up disconnecting and now they won't reconnect again. This is really frustrating.

I have Enacfire E-19 wireless earbuds. I have the same exact issue as everyone else where the audio starts and stops in Mojave with my 2016 MacBook Pro. Works perfectly fine with my iPhone 6.

Headphones connected directly to the headphone jack have no problems.

Frustrating.

I have the same issue. Macbook Air and Skullcandy Hesh 2 Wireless, Skullcandy Jib Wireless. Bluetooth on -> Connected for 5 second -> Disconnects. While connected the volume feedback sound coming from the Macbook's speakers not the Skullcandy. Really weird and frustrating. Hope Apple fix this soon 'cause I'm unable to use my headphones. 😟

I have the same issue with a Bose SoundLink Mini. Worked flawlessly before the upgrade. If I reboot it works fine for a while, but once it starts disconnecting I can't get more than 4 to 10 secs of audio before it drops again.

Tonight I noticed when it started, my Magic Mouse 2 and Trackpad 2 also were briefly disconnected and reconnected.

Same for me as well - after reading through this thread, it seems to me that it is definitely the bluetooth drivers for Mojave causing the issues. I have been having the audio issues with my beats studio 3 headphones, along with very spotty connections to my Logitech keyboard and mouse (either one will randomly not work after starting from sleep, but restarting the computer fixes it). Headphone connections are spotty while using them for videoconferencing as well, and I have found that the battery dies down quickly with my beats when using them with my MacBook Pro (2018 model) than with my iPhone or iPad (will drain in an hour vs. the usual multiple hours).

Hope a future update fixes this - has anyone had any success with one of the MacOS Mojave 14.1 betas?

Just upgraded to macOS 10.14.1 and my issues have completely gone.

I'm using Bose QC35 Bluetooth headphones. Prior to Mojave no issues at all - great connection - really stable and reliable behaviour and good range. No issues connecting even in "busy" bluetooth environments.

With 10.14.0 I had very unreliable bluetooth operation, broken and lossy connection.

This latest release seems to have completely fixed it - back to how it was before Mojave. OK, so it's early days, but looking good. Well done Apple!

Upgrading to Mojave 10.14.1 did NOT resolve my issue with my wireless Enacfire earbuds.

If anything the cutting in and out of the audio is now even worse.

Ridiculous. They work fine with my iPhone 6.

Now what?

same here, sennheiser bt headset works just fine with iphone xs max and windows laptop but with mojave on macbook pro 2017 its impossible to listen to music due to stuttering all the time. I am using the headset for skype/facetime calls and that sort of works until the headset disconnects and reconnects in the middle of convo (usually each 10 minutes or so)... no clue what to do to fix it

Thanks ChrispyT,

Your solution works for my eoz bluetooth 5.0 earbuds on the iMac 27" Late-2013 Mojave 10.14.1.

I am not sure but I feel the Magic Black Mouse 2 interferes seriously too if there are more than 1 bluetooth device connected simultaneously.

😝

Hi There,

I had connection problem with my Sony H900N over the ear headphone. I tried to reset the headphone, it didn't help. Then I reset it to factory settings. It connected right away. Hope it helps.

cheers

Hi there,

after reading through all posts looking for a solution I could not find any that works for me. I have a MBP mid 2012 and Jabra 65t wireless in ears, the music often cuts or stops altogether. I have Mojave 10.14.1 installed, tried SMC and PRAM reset, did not help either.

Am I the only one who also has the problem of even choppier audio when sitting further away from the computer than 1m (3 feet)?

Is there a way to boost bluetooth power output?

I actually found the solution to my problem:

Mojave was falling back on SBC (low energy bad quality bluetooth standard) instead of higher quality AAC or AptX.

To force use of AAC to the system you can enter use terminal:

sudo defaults write bluetoothaudiod "Enable AAC codec" -bool true

To force use of AptX to the system enter:

sudo defaults write bluetoothaudiod "Enable AptX codec" -bool true

there is still another way described in the following article:

https://www.macrumors.com/how-to/enable-aptx-aac-bluetooth-audio-codecs-macos/

cheers

Sorry, but that answer STILL did not work for me with my 2016 MacBook Pro and Mojave.

My ER-19 wireless earbuds STILL show Codec as SBC, even after entering the two lines into Terminal.

And of course, the stuttering on playback continues.

No such issues with my iPhone 6.