The latest version of the Xbox controller—the one included with the Xbox I S and the upcoming One Ten—includes Bluetooth! Microsoft finally included Bluetooth along with the older proprietary Xbox wireless connexion, so Windows users can hook information technology up without an actress dongle. Here'due south how to connect information technology to your Bluetooth-equipped laptop or desktop.

What You'll Need

First of all, you need to see if your Xbox One controller is the updated kind or the older one that needs a dongle. There'south an easy way to tell: the newer design has its central "Xbox push button" molded into the same plastic piece every bit the confront buttons (like A, B, X, and Y). The older pattern molds that push button into the plastic on the top of the controller, the aforementioned function that has the shoulder buttons and triggers. To put information technology simply, the new version has Bluetooth, the old version doesn't.

You'll besides demand a PC running Windows 10, with at least the Anniversary Update (Baronial, 2016). And of course, you'll also need Bluetooth. If yous've bought a laptop in the concluding v years or so it's nigh certainly capable, but many desktops (if they don't include a Wi-Fi card) don't have it installed by default. In that example, you'll demand a USB Bluetooth dongle. And certain, information technology'southward still a dongle, simply at least it'southward useful for more than just an Xbox controller.

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Connect the Controller

Connecting the controller to Bluetooth is fairly unproblematic. Nosotros're using a Windows desktop because it'due south one of the only things that the controller is explicitly designed to piece of work with. You tin can connect it to other things, like an Android telephone, only the proprietary layout means it probably won't piece of work for whatever actual gaming.

To brainstorm, make sure there's cipher else turned on in the room that might interfere with the connection—like an Xbox One console or an Xbox Windows adapter dongle. Turn the controller on by pressing the center Xbox push button, then press and hold the wireless connection push on the top of the controller, to the left of the charging port. The lite in the Xbox button should begin flashing rapidly.

On your computer, open the "Bluetooth and other devices" folio from the main Settings card, or just click the Outset button and type "Bluetooth" to find the link quickly.  Click "Add Bluetooth or other device," and then click "Bluetooth" once more.

Select your controller from the list, and then click information technology. It should connect automatically. Now you're set to get-go playing any game compatible with the standard Xbox controller input.

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