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macOS and Bluetooth

I have two wireless devices that I use every day for 5-15 hours. These are Sony WH-1000XM3 headphones and a Razer Orochi V2 mouse. Lots of use cases, especially with headphones, but the main one is still working on a MacBook.

At the end of the year, macOS updated to Ventura and I started noticing how the mouse periodically starts to lag without any particular reason. I have no illusions that it will deliver some fantastic DPI over Bluetooth, but what I'm talking about is completely unacceptable. Move the trackpad - wonderfully smooth, move the mouse - nightmare. Whether this is related to headphones or not is unclear, but they seem to accelerate the problem's appearance.

Of course I researched this, naturally there are tons of threads on the internet where my exact case is described. An obvious Ventura bug that no one knows what to do with.

Well, almost, you can run sudo pkill bluetoothd as soon as you start noticing freezes, to disconnect all devices and restart the Bluetooth module. The famous user experience from Apple. Since then I've been doing this about once every two or three days. It helps.

And it would be fine if this was some issue with my devices, like they're not racially pure. People write that it reproduces with Magic Mouse and AirPods too. They say it's getting worse and worse with each new update. You could update hoping they fixed it, but afraid it will get even worse. Eliminating ports from the world and leaving such a fundamental bug in the main wireless interface - that's Apple for you. Think different.

And I've already gotten used to the fact that headphones can lose connection absolutely spontaneously, albeit quite rarely, over 3.5 years of use. Sometimes they connect one at a time and you need to put them in the case and take them out again. But these are trifles.