I am surprised not many have faced this yet !

This is by far the most annoying aspect of Mavericks (am told that of lion earlier as well).

The bluetooth (BT) discoverability is always ON !!! (what the ...)

So, when I turn on BT to connect my magic keyboard and mouse, I've to pray that there are no other BT devices around.

Well prayers aren't answered and Murphy is always right. There were plenty of BT enabled devices around that sent me requests every 30 seconds. Got some from an N70 mobile of my friend's 4 times as I write this. 😟 😟

I deny and then they ask again. I've no way to permanently deny them. Major pain, you'd agree if you're working and have 4 requests per min on the avg.

The best solution (I hope) would've been to turn off the BT discoverability on my Mac (as my keyboard and mouse are paired and saved as recognized devices).

But that option (a check box), "IN THE NAME OF SIMPLER DESIGN" has been done away with in Mavericks. Really well done Apple. How do you manage to kick ppl who love you, in the nuts??

I work in a software MNC too and flabbergasted at how working things break or crucial concerns (like the wifi Mac issue) never get any importance with Apple. Caught between surpise and mightliy ****** how something as basic as this was played around with and not realized as being broken.

Please let me know if there are any alternatives. I've googled but found none that works. For the moment I've pushed away my BT devices and usign my Mac as is.