How to Turn on Bluetooth on Windows 11? [Step-by-Step Guide]

With the developing of Internet technology, Bluetooth has been playing an important role in our daily life and routine working, in order to transfer important documents between mobile phones to desktops or among different computers, to synchronize the audios or videos without an external USB device.

As Windows 11 has a completely new UI design, many settings including Bluetooth have been changed and many users don’t know how to turn on Bluetooth on Windows 11?

We’ll talk about the 2 methods on turning on Bluetooth on Windows in a step-by-step guide, so you can easily and quickly get it set up and transfer your files in a wireless way.

The Easiest Way on How to Turn on Bluetooth on Windows 11?

Look at the right bottom corner of the navigation bar on your desktop.

Then one click on the Bluetooth icon. There are two status for you: On and Off. What you need to do is just click the icon to connect or disconnect it.

This the most efficient and quickest way to turn on Bluetooth. Of course, there is also another method. Please keep going on the next part.

A Common Way on How to Turn on Bluetooth on Windows?

Another way is to get Bluetooth on is to set it via Settings. As you know the has been moved to the center of the screen. So you can directly search Settings by clicking on the Windows icon.

The Bluetooth option lies in the second on the left hand, where you can click on it to open the settings for Bluetooth. Then only a click on the button to turn on it.

Now, all things of how to turn on Bluetooth on Windows 11 have been done and you can start transfer files. If you don’t see the Bluetooth icon, that means your device doesn’t support it.

If your computer has Bluetooth supported, but it doesn’t work after the settings, what you should do now is to check whether the driver for Bluetooth is missing or outdated. Of course, a simple way to detect drivers is to get a third-party program such Driver Booster from IObit, which is totally free and will update the drivers to the latest with a very fast speed.