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Re:macOS Monterey by concinds on Monday October 25, 2021 @06:12PM (#28993804)
Apple took away a key feature, where you pressed a key combo (shift+alt) and clicked on the Bluetooth menu bar item, and you'd get an option to reset Bluetooth; this helped for the inevitable case where people have bugs and devices won't connect, or Bluetooth just won't work.

https://www.macrumors.com/how-to/reset-mac-bluetooth-module/

That no longer exists on Monterey.

They might be referencing Control Center, though.

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Re:macOS Monterey by Klonoar on Monday October 25, 2021 @06:23PM (#28993919)
...are you sure? When bluetooth was broken as all hell in the Monterey betas I believe that the reset trick was the go-to for people to get it to reconnect to devices properly.

Unless they removed it entirely in a later beta and I'm simply unaware.

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Re:macOS Monterey by concinds on Monday October 25, 2021 @07:36PM (#28994591)
I can only confirm that it's gone from Monterey RC1 and RC2 (& therefore the release build).
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Re:macOS Monterey by nawgz on Monday October 25, 2021 @06:20PM (#28993890)
How are secret features better than the now-discoverable option of simply shutting it off and turning it back on? It's an all-time computing classic and now it's using the UI classic toggle language. This seems superb to me.
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Re:macOS Monterey by concinds on Monday October 25, 2021 @07:44PM (#28994672)
Turning bluetooth on and off doesn't reset anything, so it doesn't help when people have deeper problems with their Mac's bluetooth.
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Re:macOS Monterey by nawgz on Monday October 25, 2021 @09:26PM (#28995343)
Ok, I understand. That is a regression. The UI piece as a whole is still superior in my opinion, wrt UX at least, even if this is a regression in functionality
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