How to Fix iPhone Bluetooth Problems
I need to know how to fix iPhone Bluetooth problems. Make sure the person next to you isn’t on a Bluetooth headset that interferes with your phone. This isn’t as simple as someone else’s device interfering with mine. It could be a problem with your headset or the in car infotainment system. It used to work, so I don’t think it is the hardware or accessories. You still could have messed up your settings for the iPhone, which you can try to fix by bringing up the control center, turning blue tooth off by hitting the button for it, turning it back on and seeing if it works. That’s barely better than doing a hard reset. You’re welcome to try that too. If rebooting the phone fixed the issue, I wouldn’t have to ask for help now. Then switch the phone to airplane mode and back off. I’m not planning on getting on a plane. Switching to airplane mode and back off refreshes your network settings, whether you’re using cellular data or wi-fi connectivity. And it may be enough to let you reconnect with Bluetooth. I can reset the network settings by going to settings, general, reset, reset network settings, as well. Just make sure you confirm it and you’re on a working network. What else can I try? Turn off Bluetooth, do a hard reset by holding down sleep wake and home at the same time until the Apple logo comes up, let it finish rebooting, then turn Bluetooth on again. That’s essentially a reboot plus setting change. Try connecting and see if it works. And if it doesn’t, see if anyone else is having trouble connecting to Bluetooth, in case it is your service and not the device. I’m the only one not able to connect. Try swapping out your Bluetooth headset with one that works on a different device to see if it is your device. After all, if the failure is the Bluetooth headset, no amount of rebooting and resets will fix it. And the solution is getting another Bluetooth headset. If the headset works on their device and not yours, then you know it is a setting or software glitch. So now we’re back to a software glitch. If you were on iOS 8 with Bluetooth problems, the solution was rolling back the version or restoring to factory defaults and then waiting until the patched iOS 8 came out. I know they had issues with that up through 8.3. We’re up to iOS 9 now. That doesn’t mean you don’t need to do another software update to fix a glitch in your Bluetooth stack. What else could it be? Your Bluetooth profile might be corrupted. You could try to fix that by going to settings, Bluetooth, info, forget this device and confirm. Remember that I want to actually use Bluetooth with this iPhone. Then set up the Bluetooth device and reconnect, and it might work this time. And if it doesn’t, I can tell the geniuses at the Apple store I’ve narrowed it down to which replacement headset or phone I want. Assuming it isn't a restore to defaults and repair bill instead.
I need to know how to fix iPhone Bluetooth problems. Make sure the person next to you isn’t on a Bluetooth headset that interferes with your phone. This isn’t as simple as someone else’s device interfering with mine. It could be a problem with your headset or the in car infotainment system. It used to work, so I don’t think it is the hardware or accessories. You still could have messed up your settings for the iPhone, which you can try to fix by bringing up the control center, turning blue tooth off by hitting the button for it, turning it back on and seeing if it works. That’s barely better than doing a hard reset. You’re welcome to try that too. If rebooting the phone fixed the issue, I wouldn’t have to ask for help now. Then switch the phone to airplane mode and back off. I’m not planning on getting on a plane. Switching to airplane mode and back off refreshes your network settings, whether you’re using cellular data or wi-fi connectivity. And it may be enough to let you reconnect with Bluetooth. I can reset the network settings by going to settings, general, reset, reset network settings, as well. Just make sure you confirm it and you’re on a working network. What else can I try? Turn off Bluetooth, do a hard reset by holding down sleep wake and home at the same time until the Apple logo comes up, let it finish rebooting, then turn Bluetooth on again. That’s essentially a reboot plus setting change. Try connecting and see if it works. And if it doesn’t, see if anyone else is having trouble connecting to Bluetooth, in case it is your service and not the device. I’m the only one not able to connect. Try swapping out your Bluetooth headset with one that works on a different device to see if it is your device. After all, if the failure is the Bluetooth headset, no amount of rebooting and resets will fix it. And the solution is getting another Bluetooth headset. If the headset works on their device and not yours, then you know it is a setting or software glitch. So now we’re back to a software glitch. If you were on iOS 8 with Bluetooth problems, the solution was rolling back the version or restoring to factory defaults and then waiting until the patched iOS 8 came out. I know they had issues with that up through 8.3. We’re up to iOS 9 now. That doesn’t mean you don’t need to do another software update to fix a glitch in your Bluetooth stack. What else could it be? Your Bluetooth profile might be corrupted. You could try to fix that by going to settings, Bluetooth, info, forget this device and confirm. Remember that I want to actually use Bluetooth with this iPhone. Then set up the Bluetooth device and reconnect, and it might work this time. And if it doesn’t, I can tell the geniuses at the Apple store I’ve narrowed it down to which replacement headset or phone I want. Assuming it isn't a restore to defaults and repair bill instead.