I've been battling issues with Universal Control disconnecting between my M2 Pro Mac Mini and M1 MacBook Pro since I got the Mini two years ago. Universal Control had worked wonderfully between the MBP and an older 27" Intel iMac I had.
I'd pretty much given up this ever working properly.
Then I got a pair of AirPods Max over the holidays and noticed that I would intermittently get audio glitches and dropouts between the Mini and the headphones and this got me researching what could cause these bluetooth issues.
I ran across a few posts where the issue was resolved by placing the Mini vertically, on a stand, so that the BT antenna in its base has better reception.
I did that yesterday and so far, I have not had a single BT audio dropout and Universal Control has remained connected.
It is absolutely bonkers that this might have fixed it and extremely disappointing that Apple would have such a glaring design defect in the product.
I was even considering getting an M4 Pro Mini or an M4 Max Studio but who knows if those have similar issues.
I'd pretty much given up this ever working properly.
Then I got a pair of AirPods Max over the holidays and noticed that I would intermittently get audio glitches and dropouts between the Mini and the headphones and this got me researching what could cause these bluetooth issues.
I ran across a few posts where the issue was resolved by placing the Mini vertically, on a stand, so that the BT antenna in its base has better reception.
I did that yesterday and so far, I have not had a single BT audio dropout and Universal Control has remained connected.
It is absolutely bonkers that this might have fixed it and extremely disappointing that Apple would have such a glaring design defect in the product.
I was even considering getting an M4 Pro Mini or an M4 Max Studio but who knows if those have similar issues.