Disable the "Connection lost" message when Bluetooth keyboard out of range
You can do this by disabling the Bezel UI, here are instructions on how to do so from an answer from another question related to that:
To turn off bezels for this user until next login:
launchctl unload -F /System/Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.BezelUI.plist
To undo, changeunload
toload
, or just log out and back in.For macOS 10.12 Sierra: Disable System Integrity protection, then:
launchctl unload -F /System/Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.OSDUIHelper.plist
Don't forget to enable System Integrity protection when you're done.
To turn off bezels indefinitely for this user:
launchctl unload -wF /System/Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.BezelUI.plist
For macOS 10.12 Sierra: Disable System Integrity protection, then:
launchctl unload -wF /System/Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.OSDUIHelper.plist
You can now enable System Integrity protection again -- your settings will persist.To undo, change
unload
toload
.
To turn off bezels indefinitely for all users:
sudo defaults write /System/Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.BezelUI Disabled -bool YES
For macOS 10.11 Sierra: Disable System Integrity protection before doing the above.
To undo, change
YES
toNO
, or:sudo defaults delete /System/Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.BezelUI Disabled
For macOS 10.12 Sierra: Disable System Integrity protection, then:
sudo defaults write /System/Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.OSDUIHelper Disabled -bool YES
You can now enable System Integrity protection again -- your settings will persist.To undo, change
YES
toNO
, or:sudo defaults delete /System/Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.OSDUIHelper Disabled
Users can override this global setting using the two methods above.
More info:
launchctl
is the command-line interface to launchd, the program that manages services and jobs on Mac OS.
- To reverse any of the above actions, just change
unload
toload
.-w
means write preference to disk so that it will be used for subsequent logins-F
means force un/load regardless of the globalDisabled
keyYou can read more about it in
man launchctl
.