My huge thanks to PleasantSpectrum on the Apple support forums who discovered this solution. Once you’ve fixed the problem, even when you power the Mac down and switch off the controller, you shouldn’t need to go through the process again. If you don’t have Xbox wired controller, you can buy one to the nearest shop for around 40 to 50. Once your Mac is cleaned up, you can continue with installing the needed drivers. If it doesn’t work for you, unpair the controller in the Mac’s Bluetooth settings, go back to step 1 and try again. Step 2: Installing the drivers and connecting the Xbox One Controller to Mac. Press the buttons on your controller or waggle the joysticks and (hopefully) you should see the relevant button/joystick highlighted on the page, as shown below:Īmazingly, and for reasons I can’t really explain, this seemed to fix the mapping issues with my Xbox controller.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. Hold down the pair button on the top of the. Pair the controller to your Mac via Bluetooth. If youve got a newer Xbox One S controller with Bluetooth, you can use the controller with your Mac without any additional hardware or software: 1.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. If you have a current model MacBook or MacBook Pro, youll need a USB-C to USB-A adapter. I can’t explain why the solution below works. Once youve installed the drivers, youll now logically see that there are No devices found, since we have yet to physically connect the game controller to the Mac. 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.

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