New iPhone 12 Bluetooth pairing problems

I tried my iPhone 12 mini with 14.1 and had the same problem. It seems to be iPhone 12s not iOS 14.2 specifically. So feel free to upgrade the iPhone 8 to 14.2

Lawrence Finch- The 12 does not link with some Bluetooth compatible products! People have tried the possible resolutions that were commented and it didn’t work. Follow along guy

New patch 14.4, same problem. It’s been months Apple. It’s clearly something with the way the iPhone 12 establishes Bluetooth connections.

Funny I have contacted Homewerks tech support they say it’s an Apple problem..... I went thru step by step with them they stated IOS problem

Go outside and yell, "What's the deal Apple??" They will be as likely to hear that as your posting here. Click on the Get Support link at the top right of his page to get in touch with Apple.

Mine will pair but it will still play the music through my phones speaker instead of the Bluetooth speaker or my car. Funny thing is when it’s paired I can control the music I.e. pause, volume, change track, etc. with the Bluetooth speaker buttons but it’s all going through my phone not the speaker itself.

They keep telling me it’s a manufacturer defect I spoke with the manufacturer Homewerks not so everything was fine with my 11 pro max !!!! I just redid my bathroom too !!! My iPad my daughters iPhone 8 my mac all work come on Apple!!! Do something!!!!

Same issue but I'm not able to connect my iPhone12 to my Apple desktop. Same error messages as you all have indicated. And when I click on "options" next to "connect" prompt in the bluetooth window, it is asking for a 4 digit code shown on my iphone to connect with the device. What code? There is nothing that was sent to my phone and it says to see the documentation that came with my bluetooth device if you don't know the code or are having trouble connecting.....are you kidding me? I'm ready to return this new phone and just continue to use my iPhoneX....Never had this much difficulty with bluetooth connection. Awful.

Apple is selling defective phones. I traded 2 perfectly good iPhone 8’s for the iPhone 12. As far as I’m concerned I would like my iPhone 8’s back ASAP. Apple knew that Bluetooth had issues but they still pushed it out to keep mass producing. This never happened with Steve Jobs. Now it’s all about making them as cheap as possible but sell them at high dollar. They are really going Green. They should be sued for knowingly selling defective phones and not disclosing that info to consumers.

Can someone explain me how is this thread marked as solved?

I went through all comments, including the one marked as the "solution" and there is no solution. One comment mentions that resetting the network configuration worked for him. I did that three times with two different iPhone 12 Pro Max and none worked. The same BT speaker was successfully connected to iPhones 7, 8, and 10. Yet, no luck with the iPhone 12.

I have no idea why is this thread marked as solved and can assure that no comment so far properly addressed the OP issue.

I reset the Network setting on my iPhone 12 Pro 5 times following your instructions and it still did not solve the Bluetooth pairing issue with my Homeworks Bluetooth speaker bathroom fan.

What type of speaker do you have? And do you have an iPhone 12? Or an iPhone X, 8 or 7?

The OP was not specific when he mentioned "Anyone else having issues with certain devices...", which makes it hard to specify whether the issue was resolved or not.

However, the thread has a post by maccorso on Nov 30, 2020 4:12 PM that is marked as the solution. The post itself makes it clear that BT connectivity on the iPhone 12 is flawed, blames Apple for letting this situation go unchecked, and ask them to do something about it. That is, the post is not a solution at all, no matter how precise or not the OP was.

I believe this is what iPhone12ProBTP was referring to in his post (it is actually a reply to the maccorso's post). I have no idea why that post was marked as a solution (allegedly by the OP).

In fact, and to your point, the OP asked for thoughts (versus asking for a precise answer), so no answer should be marked as "solved" while many could be marked as "helpful."

Apart from all the above, I went through all potential solutions (not many) and none addressed what seems to be the problem with the highest number of posts in this thread: bathroom BT speakers that worked with all previous iPhones are not working with the iPhone 12. Having a post marked as "solved" is misleading as it makes one believe that this and other BT issues raised in the thread are solved, which is far from being true.

OP (PetePPB): if you agree with the above comments, please remove the "solved" tag from maccorso's post. I believe only you (and the admins of this list) can do that.

Very well said Lawrence!! I looked back and saw the same thing with (PetePPB) marking it resolved. It’s not resolved yet!! Thank you everyone for the helpful tips that maybe worked for you but haven’t yet helped me use my Bluetooth with my bathroom fan. Apple please make this a PRIORITY to fix the issue!

Lawrence, great idea. I just posted a new thread focusing on the specific issue of paring the iPhone 12 with Homewerks bathroom BT speakers.

The thread is at https://discussions.apple.com/thread/252262625