Why is Windows 10 Bluetooth so so so bad ?

I agree and have no idea what to do.  You'd think the company that really pioneered at home computers would be able to make bluetooth work on their current OS like it does on literally any other company's OS.

I am constantly having to uninstall the Bluetooth drivers in their entirety and reinstall as the drivers seem to degrade over time, just to get it to work somewhat okay for 2-4 weeks.

When it does act up, running the Troubleshooter is absolutely useless, because it claims nothing is wrong, despite the entirety of Bluetooth sometimes downright stopping all audio and video on the computer as it glitches out.

And the fact that this has gone on since the launch of Windows 10, and Microsoft just thinks it's acceptable really is disappointing.  They want so desperately to be macOS by stripping away so much of our freedom for customizing our computers, because evidently all their users are complete idiots, but can't fix one of the most fundamental pieces of an average customer's experience on their products.

It's disappointing.  Here's hoping they bother considering working on it one day.

Having used Bluetooth mice and keyboards on both Apple's Mac's and Windows PC's. I can say that in my experience Apple's implementation of Bluetooth is far better than Windows for whatever reason. You would think that the same technology would work the same on either operating system. But that has not been the case in my experience. Maybe its why I don't see as many Bluetooth Mice and keyboards for Windows PC's? I know when I have used Apple Bluetooth keyboards and mice, or even third party ones they do seem to connect instantly and have zero issues remaining connected. It became such a issue for me that I have abandon all Bluetooth devices for Windows. I can only recommend to those considering a wireless peripheral for Windows to use a wireless solution over a Bluetooth wireless one for a mouse or keyboard. Yeah, it is sort of amazing that as long as Bluetooth has been around that its still has so many problems in Windows.

I have to agree.

I have some Sony WH-1000XM3 Bluetooth headphones.  If I'm using them on IOS, or Mac OS the connection is totally solid & reconnection is reliable.  The story in Windows 10 however isn't the same.

Whether they decide to connect is totally hit & miss.  Then, if you don't use them immediately, they start randomly disconnecting and re-connecting.  

Also, when gaming - you sometimes get severe sound stuttering, which means you have to exit,  disconnect and re-connect the headphones or remove them and start again.  This fixes the issue for a time.  It's totally random though.

It's also a total pain that when you connect the headphones, you get two different playback options:

1. Headphones Stereo
2. Headphones (Hands Free Audio)

If you want to talk to anyone on teams, skype or whatever, you need to remember to switch your playback device to option 2.  WHY?   also, if you leave it on this setting, this massively reduces sound quality for listening to audio, so you spend most of the day messing about switching between the two settings, which is bad enough, but it's just not reliable.

I have a new PC, fresh install on Windows and all drivers have been updated + have tried removing and adding them back on many times.  Given how many complaints I've read about Bluetooth on Windows, I can only assume there are on-going issues with the stability.

good luck with anyone reading this getting it sorted + if you have any tips to fix this, please share :)

I am about ready to see if bluetooth is better on linux. I have NEVER gotten bluetooth to work reliably with window 10. And that's with two differnt devices, two differnt bluetooth dongles, and two different computers. The OS is the only common denominator.

I am about ready to see if bluetooth is better on linux.

On the Arch kernel at least, the bluetooth audio works really well with pulseaudio. The computer scans every few seconds for paired devices, so as long as you don't have a bazillion of them, you should be good.