Bluetooth Device Rename

My laptop using win 11 does the same thing it goes to the new bluetooth settings window where you cant right click anything. I cant access the devices like all the answers are telling me to???? Seems such an easy thing to do but is made so damn difficult meh....

Alonzo Mosley said:

Good idea - I tried that... But I see yours still show up with the assigned "AudioQuest Dragonfly". So I'd be renaming "Headphones" to whatever I wanted (in my example) and the "S26" would still show up, which would make it difficult to distinguish when I log on to THIS S26 as headphones (it's a speaker, but it shows as headphones, whatevs) and when I log on to an identical speaker at another location.

In Win10 and previous, I could rename the "AudioQuest Dragonfly" part under Bluetooth Properties and/or Manage Devices, and it would stick, and that way I'd know "Office Speakers" from "Home Speakers" to "Suitcase Speakers". (Hey, when you find a product you like, buy a lot of them...)

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jh30uk said:

In Win 10 I could rename a Bluetooth device (you must do this while it is connected then disconnect/reconnect) only then it would remember the new name after a reboot.

In Win 11 the device name reverts on rebooting, anyone else tried this?

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The only way I've gotten this to work is to rename the device itself on another device, and then whatever name I've chosen sticks in Windows.

Mind you, though, this is for devices (*usually paired to my Android Phone) that allow themselves to be renamed in the first place. So, for example, with my Google Pixel Buds Pro, in my phone, I renamed the Buds to Allegro (their internal codename) and now Windows shows them as allegro as well.

I do not know if this works with using an iDevice, but if there is a mobile app for your device, try connecting to it via mobile and see if you can change the name itself on the device there.

This may, or may not, work, YMMV.



Cheetah is my Pixel 7 Pro. Allegro are the Buds Pro.

johnlgalt said:

The only way I've gotten this to work is to rename the device itself on another device, and then whatever name I've chosen sticks in Windows.

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