A couple of days ago, someone asked me how to change the Bluetooth adapter’s name on a Windows 10 PC? In this guide, we will see how to change Bluetooth adapter’s name in Windows 10.
Your Windows 10 Bluetooth adapter’s name is usually required when you want to receive a file from another Bluetooth device, or when you want to pair your phone with your Windows 10 PC.
In Windows 10, you can see your Bluetooth adapter’s name by navigating to Settings app > Devices > Bluetooth & other devices.
If you are looking to change the default name of the Bluetooth adapter on your Windows 10, remember that the Bluetooth’s name is nothing but your Windows 10 computer’s name. In other words, Windows 10 automatically sets your Windows 10 computer’s name as Bluetooth’s name.
Because of this, you cannot change the Bluetooth name alone in Windows 10. If you want to change the Bluetooth’s name, you need to change the computer name. In short, it’s impossible to set different names for your Windows 10 PC and Bluetooth adapter on your PC.
Following are the two ways to change your Windows 10 PC Bluetooth name.
Tip: How to reinstall the Bluetooth driver in Windows 10.
Method 1 of 2
Change Bluetooth name in Settings
Step 1: Navigate to Settings app > System > About.
Step 2: Under Device specifications, click Rename this PC button. This will open Rename your PC dialog.
Step 3: Type in a new name for your PC/Bluetooth. Click Next button.
Step 4: You will now be asked to restart your PC. Save all work and click Restart now button. If you wish to restart later, click Restart later button.
The new PC/Bluetooth name will appear once you restart your PC.
Method 2 of 2
Change Bluetooth name in Control Panel
Step 1: In the Start/taskbar search box, type Sysdm.cpl and then press Enter key to open System properties dialog.
Step 2: Here, under Computer Name tab, you can see your full computer name as well as workgroup name. To change the computer name or Bluetooth name, click the Change button.
Step 3: In the Computer name field, type in the name which you want to assign to your PC as well as Bluetooth.
Click OK button. You will see a dialog with “You must restart your computer to apply these changes” message.
Click OK button. If you see a dialog with Restart now and Restart later options, click Restart later button.
Step 4: Finally, save all your work and then reboot your PC to set the new name as your computer name as well as Bluetooth receiver’s name on your Windows 10.
Joshua Clayton says
Changin the device name in the device manager is better than being forced to stick with the Computer name (especially if your computer is managed by a big company), but its pretty unintuitive. Fix this, Microsoft!
@thankyounext says
DO NOT FOLLOW THIS GUIDE. Follow the suggestion by @lopital below:
Right click on This PC
Device Manager
Bluetooth
*Select your bluetooth device* (in my case Intel Wireless Bluetooth)
Advanced
Bluetooth Radio information > Name
George Cooke says
Thank You, I personally prefer the non-retarded way which is Method 2.
As you may find out, after you Rename using the Method 1, you actually have to restart before you the rename function even allows you to input a new name, so if you rename, then change your mind, but don’t want to restart just to change a string of text, you’re screwed, luckily, there is Method 2:
In Method 2, you can rename as many times as you wish, before you need to restart to apply the rename operation.
– Thanks for the article BTW!
SnowMonkeN says
The easiest solution is Hit Win+R, run devmgmt.msc and change the name in the Device Manager -> Bluetooth -> your adapter -> Properties -> Advanced -> and choose your name
Solution by waters-of-nazareth
Other solutions didn’t work for me on Windows 10 1809
Book of Friends says
So I’m trying to follow all the comments that talk about device manager and when I select my Bluetooth device, there is definitely no “Advanced” option. Any ideas?
waters-of-nazareth says
This is a terrible guide full of incorrect information.
You can easily change the Bluetooth name on Windows 10:
On Windows 10:
Hit Win+R, run devmgmt.mscand in the Device Manager
Find your Bluetooth device (on my laptop, it’s “Broadcom 43142Bluetooth 4.0”)
Double-click it and set the desired name in the Advanced section.
zazzsl says
I agree – this incorrect information – you can change in Device Manager
Right click on This PC
Device Manager
Bluetooth
*Select your bluetooth device* (in my case Intel Wireless Bluetooth)
Advanced
Bluetooth Radio information > Name
St0F says
Listen to what @lopital says, do that and you can keep your PC Name as whatever you want. The issue I had was that by BlueTooth Speakers would spell out my PC Name as it was all in CAPS, so used @lopital’s suggestion saw that it was all in CAPS there and changed to Normal. I did this as my PC name was already in the proper case, just bluetooth decided to make it all CAPS…Thanks @lopital for your comment :)
lopital says
This is bullshit, you don’t have to change the computer name to change how devices detected your bluetooth, and the computer name has restrictions like for example, you can’t put blanks or use lowercase, so… any Bose Soundlink will spell out the name of your bluetooth, and no read in the right way, don’t use this shitty guide, do the following:
Right click on This PC
Device Manager
Bluetooth
*Select your bluetooth device* (in my case Intel Wireless Bluetooth)
Advanced
Bluetooth Radio information > Name
Fill with whatever you want in the name… done.
Hermann says
It’s super retarded that you have to reboot Windows for a simple change like this…
dave says
thanks for good giude