
Now click the Bluetooth symbol in the Mac menu bar, select Bluetooth Preferences and hopefully your controller should appear in the list. To do this, turn the controller on and press the pairing button on the top of the controller, the same one you’d use to pair it with the Xbox console. Pair the controller to your Mac via Bluetooth.

Here, then, is the solution that worked for me: I was highly sceptical that it would do anything when I read the suggestion on the Apple forums, but it worked for me. I can’t promise it’s going to work for you, but give it a shot. I can’t explain why the solution below works.

But after several hours of Googling and trying all sorts of different ‘solutions’ to the problem, I’ve finally cracked it. Until now.Įven when Apple recently updated macOS 11 to support the new Xbox Series X/S controllers, it didn’t solve the problem. The same happened when I connected via USB cable.Ĭould I find a solution? Could I hell. The A button was mapped to B, for example, and other control were out of whack.

They would pair via Bluetooth, no problem, but buttons weren’t mapped properly. My Xbox controllers (both for Xbox One and Xbox Series X) refused to work properly with my Mac. This is one of those problems that has been bugging me for ages.
