This trick based on this should work on android device or a pc running windows natively. Follow these instructions to rename a device: On your Apple computer, from the Apple Menu choose System Preferences > Bluetooth. IOS and recent versions of Mac OS X restricts direct access to certain characteristics such as 'device name'

Which I also agree Apple seems to have changed something between old versions and newer versions of OS X

It seems like Yudi Setiawan had success with 10.11 If I can pin point the root cause of this I will try to work a fix. Rename Paired Bluetooth Device Windows 10 Select Settings on your iPhone or iPad in iOS 10 and then go to General About. to find the root cause I am investigating what changed from Mac OS 10.7 to 10.8 with the bluetooth stack.īut for now the solution to the issue is finding an older Mac using 10.7 and completing the re-naming process there. Pairing Apple Bluetooth Keyboard in Windows is a very very very conventional approach, it’s the same old time of pairing bluetooth device. It appears once you install 10.7 (Mac OS Lion) it was able to rename the device permanently. I used an old MacBook (2008) and started installing older versions of Mac OS X until one was able to rename the device names permanently. I tried editing plist files etc reseting bluetooth/using debug mode etc etc.

I tried using old MacBook Pro using Sierra, iMac with Catalina, MacBook Air Catalina and windows 10 (though VMware on iMac running Catalina).

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