{"id":3537,"date":"2026-02-07T14:11:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T13:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/warnas.net\/welcome\/?p=3537"},"modified":"2026-02-07T14:11:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T13:11:11","slug":"macbook-apple-broadcom-usb-bluetooth-support-under-windows-11-bootcamp-fix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/warnas.net\/welcome\/2026\/macbook-apple-broadcom-usb-bluetooth-support-under-windows-11-bootcamp-fix\/","title":{"rendered":"Macbook Apple Broadcom USB Bluetooth Support under Windows 11 Bootcamp fix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>TL;DR: Install the wrong Broadcom Bluetooth driver first, then reinstall the original. Don&#8217;t ask why.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If you upgraded from Windows 10 to 11 on a MacBook (using something like Rufus to bypass TPM), you may find Windows 11 doesn&#8217;t recognise your built-in Broadcom Bluetooth controller. The driver package you (should have) downloaded during the Bootcamp preparation phase also won&#8217;t contain a suitable driver. You won&#8217;t be able to use a Bluetooth mouse with your MacBook running Windows.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what I did:<\/p>\n<p>In Device Manager, go to System Devices and find the Broadcom PCIe Bluetooth controller. That looks fine. What won&#8217;t look fine is your Bluetooth device, which will show a yellow triangle.<\/p>\n<p>Update the driver for your Broadcom PCIe Bluetooth controller. Click &#8216;Update driver&#8217;, then &#8216;Browse my computer for drivers&#8217;, then &#8216;Let me pick from a list of available drivers&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ll see 3 options:<br \/>\nBroadcom Bluetooth Controller over PCI Device<br \/>\nBroadcom Bluetooth Controller over Uhe PCI Device<br \/>\nBroadcom Bluetooth PCIe Controller.<\/p>\n<p>Install the 3rd one (shortest name) and reboot.<\/p>\n<p>It won&#8217;t work. In fact, it now shows an error in System Devices.<\/p>\n<p>Reinstall the original driver: Broadcom Bluetooth Controller over PCI Device.<\/p>\n<p>Without restarting, Bluetooth now works. A host of extra devices (such as Microsoft Bluetooth Enumerator) will appear in the Bluetooth section of Device Manager.<\/p>\n<p>Your mouse now connects.<\/p>\n<p>Best guess: Installing the wrong driver copies some files that are actually needed to the right location.<\/p>\n<p>Hardware: MacBook Pro 13&#8243; (2019), Model 15,4<br \/>\nSoftware: Windows 11 Professional, installed via Rufus to bypass TPM<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TL;DR: Install the wrong Broadcom Bluetooth driver first, then reinstall the original. Don&#8217;t ask why. If you upgraded from Windows 10 to 11 on a MacBook (using something like Rufus to bypass TPM), you may find Windows 11 doesn&#8217;t recognise your built-in Broadcom Bluetooth controller. The driver package you (should have) downloaded during the Bootcamp [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diversen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/warnas.net\/welcome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/warnas.net\/welcome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/warnas.net\/welcome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/warnas.net\/welcome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/warnas.net\/welcome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3537"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/warnas.net\/welcome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3539,"href":"https:\/\/warnas.net\/welcome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3537\/revisions\/3539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/warnas.net\/welcome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/warnas.net\/welcome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/warnas.net\/welcome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}