How to Verify That Your Chromebook Has Bluetooth
Before you spend a lot of time trying to pair a device, you should first make sure your Chromebook has Bluetooth. Most of them do, but there are some exceptions.
How to Pair Chromebook With a Bluetooth Device
After you verify you have Bluetooth on your Chromebook, you’re ready to start pairing devices. This is a relatively easy process.
How to Unpair or Disconnect a Bluetooth Device From a Chromebook
If you want to prevent a device from automatically connecting to your Chromebook in the future, you need to undo the process from the previous section. This is also easy to do.
How to Turn Off Bluetooth on a Chromebook
There may be situations where you want to temporarily prevent devices from connecting to your Chromebook, want to save battery power, or you’re on a plane and need to avoid creating interference. In these cases, you can temporarily turn Bluetooth off.
How to Improve Bluetooth Performance With Newblue
If you’ve been using Bluetooth devices with your Chromebook, you may have noticed issues such as spotty connections, sudden disconnects, and static or sound cutting in and out with your headphones. These issues can be caused by interference and other external problems, but the fact is that Chromebooks aren’t known for having solid Bluetooth connections. The best solution, if it’s available to you, is to enable Google’s Newblue Bluetooth stack. Newblue does a good job of fixing a lot of Bluetooth problems on Chromebooks, but it isn’t enabled by default. If Newblue is available on your Chromebook and it isn’t already turned on, here’s how you can enable it yourself:
