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Feb 20, 2013 4:05 PM in response to Supachickenby VoxSephora,I used to be able to tether my iPhone 3G with my MacBook Pro (circa 2008) via bluetooth but when I ungraded to iPhone 4G I started getting an error message "MacBook not supported" on my iPhone. I was still able to tether by plugging the iPhone in with a USB cable. I took my hardware to the genius bar and they determined that the bluetooth version on my laptop is version one which is not supported by version three on my iPhone. They are incompatable and simply will not work. They did offer me a great solution, though, and that is to just set up my iPhone as a personal hotspot using wifi. I was under the impression that the "wifi" in the iPhone settings was the wifi network in my house. This is not the case, if you set up a personal hotspot using wifi, your iPhone becomes the "modem". I am now able to connect my laptop (via the cellular network on my cell phone) to the net when I'm out and about and do not have access to a wifi hotspot etc.
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Feb 21, 2013 3:36 AM in response to marksparkby JasminDXB,Thank you markspark.. your solution worked for me..
Here what i did: after pairing and receiving the pairing code i turned off Wifi, turned on personal hotspot and chose "Bluetooth and USB only". Then on my macbook i went to System preferences>network > Bluetooth Pan and clicked connect. And it was CONNECTED
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Aug 28, 2013 5:09 AM in response to JasminDXBby fredVL,Jasmin, I failed to pair my new MAB13 with my old iPh4S - but your SOP works wonders !
obviously a conflict WiFi - BT prevents "total partnership by all channels"
Fred
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Nov 6, 2013 5:18 AM in response to Supachickenby nazdik,★HelpfulI have the same problem; I can't pair my iPhone 5 (iOS 7) and iMac (Mavericks) via Bluetooth. Just after a sec when iMac finds iPhone and shows "connected" it changes to " not connected". It says make sure network access is enabled, but there is no setting to change network access for Blouetooth.
My purpose for making pair is using iPhone as remote for Keynote. I do not need internet sharing. Do u have any solution?
TNX
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Mar 4, 2014 4:14 AM in response to OhNoItsMrBillby Damilko69,I had the same issue trying to bluetooth pair Ipad Air with Iphone 4S.... I tried everything to get the two units to pair together as they wouldnt even see each other and they were both sitting along side each other. Then I thought because the Ipad air was straight out of the box I have to set the Ipad air up using Itunes etc but even setting it up on that still didnt work. My last crack of the whip I thought I would try from a different angle and I found that I had to do the following to get the pair
Put both devices in airplane mode
turn on bluetooth on both devices
turn on personal hotspot on the Iphone 4S
turn off airplane mode on the Iphone 4S
Turn off the Wifi on the Iphone 4S
as soon as I did that the ipad air straight away saw the Iphone and commenced pairing and then the Iphone saw the Ipad and the 2 were then paired...
Both now see each other when bluetooth is turned On and Off
I hope that helps others
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Apr 9, 2014 9:27 PM in response to Supachickenby pmsha,Umm...Hello- not sure if this will help...but I have 5s and iPad Air...I turned on the personal hotspot and BT to pair the devices...:-D
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Oct 21, 2014 6:08 AM in response to RJBorelliby Uwatto,RJBorelli thank you very much.you are a star
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Jan 20, 2015 12:26 PM in response to marksparkby vijay r,Thanks!!
I had same issue with iPhone 6 Plus. This solution worked.
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Nov 2, 2015 7:51 AM in response to JasminDXBby GrantusM,Thank you - connecting via "Bluetooth Pan" worked.
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Nov 2, 2015 3:02 PM in response to RJBorelliby Phenomenology,Amazing! Thank you!
How you ever worked that out I will never know but it worked!
Apple seem to think they are trying to create the successor to the Enigma code machine, not a consumer product
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Jan 11, 2016 8:38 AM in response to marksparkby mariafromsamos,Hi all, as an additional step, I had to also turn off the wifi on my mac air for this to work with my iphone 5.
Thanks markspark!