My beats flex won't work with my macbook pro.

Hi,


Got my beats flex's. Paired with phone. On my mac, I go to bluetooth and press connect on the beats flex. It says it is connected but all sound still coming out of my mac and nothing out of the headphones.

MacBook Pro 16″, macOS 10.15

Posted on Oct 21, 2020 3:21 PM

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Posted on Oct 22, 2020 12:28 PM

Ok I finally got it working with my macbook pro.

  • First forget the beats flex on everywhere, iPhone, Macbook, iPad etc.
  • Then connect first on macbook then other devices.


After this it started working with macbook fine but switching to macbook from iphone was not painless on first try, need to adjust things on macbook. But after second switch between them it was somehow normal.


Maybe better support will come with Big Sur.

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Oct 22, 2020 12:28 PM in response to David Sadowsky

Ok I finally got it working with my macbook pro.

  • First forget the beats flex on everywhere, iPhone, Macbook, iPad etc.
  • Then connect first on macbook then other devices.


After this it started working with macbook fine but switching to macbook from iphone was not painless on first try, need to adjust things on macbook. But after second switch between them it was somehow normal.


Maybe better support will come with Big Sur.

Oct 26, 2020 7:25 AM in response to David Sadowsky

I can get them to connect to my MacBook Pro, however, they're clearly using the phone audio connection for media. Sound is very flat and slightly muffled when listening to music on my MacBook, whereas it's rich and clear when connected to my iPhone or iPad. I tried removing the Flex from all my devices and connecting first to my MacBook, but the audio issue persists. It's clearly not a hardware issue, as the sound is great when connected to my iPhone, so hopefully either a firmware update, or a macOS update will resolve this.

Nov 1, 2020 3:35 AM in response to Tushar Thrivikraman

I have the issue and posted about it, i can connect and pair directly to the MacOs (Mojave) Macbook Air 2018 -- however it won't Pair when its in Synch with IoS devices, and the swapping of Audio using the ICloud Accounts currently does not work (maybe Apple can fix this?) I can swap from Iphone to Ipad Audio using the iCloud account fine -- for the Macbook Air i had to remove the Bluetooh entry created fully and re-pair from scratch ... now i cannot connect to IOS devices however :(

Oct 22, 2020 11:47 AM in response to David Sadowsky

I am having the similar issue. It will connect to my '17 iMac and my '19 16" MacBook Pro, but neither of them can select the BeatsFlex for audio. It appears to timeout trying to redirect the audio


  • Connected to iPhone first
  • Updated both iMac and MacBook Pro
  • Restarted both iMac and MacBook Pro
  • Tried turning off BlueToot on the iPhone


Nothing I did would result in being able to switch audio from either MacOS device to the Beats Flex.


I have to imagine this was tested, no?

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