MacOS Bluetooth Appears “Permanently” Not Available? (MacOS 10.15 Catalina)

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For some reason after a MacOS "upgrade" to 10.15 Catalina the Bluetooth Appears "Permanently" Not Available? How can I diagnose which “a device” to connect to get Bluetooth to work ?

Upgraded to 10.15.2 but no better.

bluetooth wireless settings

taskbar

not available

os version and hardware

Any suggestions? Does this have anything to do with Bluetooth pan internet sharing?

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bluetooth demon

bluetooth not available

bluetooth plist

Best Answer

macOS Catalina Version 10.15.6 (19G73) seems to have "fixed" some of the problem but not all of it...

The MacOS "Console" System Log still has some error messages however the bluetooth connection does show up in networking.

bluetoothhd : deny(1) mach-lookup com.apple.server.bluetooth

Here is what the screen shot of the system log files look like if you search for "bluetooth"

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the suspicion is that this is a hardware to OS "bridge bug" that is specific to MacBook Pro's? For example... my system with...

Hardware Overview:

  Model Name:   MacBook Pro
  Model Identifier: MacBookPro11,3
  Processor Name:   Quad-Core Intel Core i7
  Processor Speed:  2.8 GHz
  Number of Processors: 1
  Total Number of Cores:    4
  L2 Cache (per Core):  256 KB
  L3 Cache: 6 MB
  Hyper-Threading Technology:   Enabled
  Memory:   16 GB
  Boot ROM Version: 162.0.0.0.0
  SMC Version (system): 2.19f12
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