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IPhone 4 Bluetooth Issues

IPhone 4 doesn't allow reasonable range and other issues with bluetooth headset. Fyi, tried with Apple Bluetooth headset which worked perfectly with IPhone 3G & IPhone 3G-S. Issue, you can have IPhone 4 in shirt or pant pocket and bluetooth will disconnect. Also, you can have IPhone 4 inside car and close the door while standing right outside the door and bluetooth disconnects. This never happened with previous models including IPhone 3G-S with IOS 4 installed.

Other bluetooth issues: as others reported - muffled sound quality to person your talking to. Time delays and disconnects with bluetooth Uconnect. IPhone 4 won't let you change between your car audio phone feature back to IPhone 4 without freezing.

IPhone 4,, iOS 4, Bluetooth Issues

Posted on Jul 8, 2010 3:24 PM

631 replies

Mar 10, 2011 5:03 AM in response to stevesam

With iOS 4.3 does the iPhone now work with BMW Office? Was BT MAP Profiles added to the new iOS?

Mar 12, 2011 6:44 AM in response to bryancarter

Upgraded to ios4 and now my iphone 4 wont connect to my Tom Tom car kit to make hand free calls.

Mar 17, 2011 5:09 PM in response to jkozlow3

I think it's much worse.
Am I to understand it's affected the 3GS too?

Sterner

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Apr 27, 2011 4:46 AM in response to Commi80

My iPhone 4 exhibits bluetooth connectivity issues even when reset to new out of the box status with no apps added.

Inbound

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May 10, 2011 7:58 PM in response to bryancarter

No problems encountered so far with the Sound ID 510..been using it since April 24

Fire4602

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May 22, 2011 2:32 PM in response to bryancarter

Without the intention of beating the same drum, I have had the same issue with 5 different bluetooth devices and I and ready to sell this phone. JUNK! Iphone 4 3g, 4.2.8

mikuss

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May 23, 2011 8:52 PM in response to bryancarter

Yup.... the BlueTooth feature is junk on the IPhone 4. My wife and i tried to connect - we both have ios 4.3.3 and they wouldn't see each other. Apple needs to man up and fix this.

Jun 2, 2011 2:00 AM in response to Jim in AMA

I have the same problem with my 2011 Honda Odyssey. Did you ever find a fix? Did the flip phone work all this time? Any help you have would be greatly appreciated.

Jun 13, 2011 2:36 PM in response to space peepole

Returned my iphone 4 over the weekend; couldn't get the blutooth to work properly.

Blutooth still works like a champ on my iphone 3g running 4.2.

Hope the iphone 5 doesn't have this issue.

Jun 30, 2011 10:41 PM in response to Jim in AMA

Did you ever solve the problem. I just bought a 2011 Odyssey and have the same problem with my iPhone 4. The Bluetooth is off then on. I reboot the phone and it sometimes comes back. Frustrating!

Jul 5, 2011 1:12 AM in response to bryancarter

I have mr010 and jabra halo headsets, both suffer terrible dropouts whilst jogging and phone in left pocket. In my right pocket, no dropouts whatsoever. Crazy but true.

Thanar

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Aug 29, 2011 12:30 PM in response to equals 42

...and it's an ever bigger joke if you compare iPhone's Bluetooth issues with how well headsets used to work when I had a couple of SE non-smartphones...

Aug 30, 2011 3:21 PM in response to Umbo

Sorry, getting use to something that worked fine on the iphone3 but does not on the iphone4 is BS and accepting it reeks of complacency. They need to address this when the new OS comes out this fall.

Sep 6, 2011 10:48 AM in response to bryancarter

I had problem pairing my iPhone 4 with my iPod touch, weird! 😟

badharry

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Oct 12, 2011 7:59 AM in response to jesse216

You're a STAR Jesse! You've saved my headset from being scrapped thus saving me money...walk tall!!!! A lot of people may have known this trick for years...bet a lot DIDN'T! 🙂

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