iPhone 12 Pro Max Bluetooth Issues

It worked..I have been looking high and low for a solution and took your tip and it worked

I wiped out my iPhone 12 pro max twice and still had persistent issues.

Bluetooth does not recognize my devices after doing various efforts

I’m having this issue with my car. The car recognizes the phone. The phone recognizes the car but the Bluetooth doesn’t kick in. Sometimes randomly it will connect but just goes off again. I’ve done all the fixed and even got my phone switched by Apple. It’s not the phone!

The phones never had the same name. One was my initials iPhoneX, the new phone was simply named iPhone12pro.

Also i factory reset my car Bluetooth, and only paired the new phone. I don’t even have the old one anymore. My phone still does not work consistently in my car.

It’s been months and I still have the same issue. iPhone has not done anything to fix it. I’ve been on the phone with them numerous times. At this point I just want my iPhone X back. Can they return your old phone???

(I factory reset my cars BT, deleting all pairing. I “forgot device” on my iPhone. I powered off iPhone. I turned on iPhone. I’ve previously checked on find my iPhone that I have no other iPhones connected to my account. I then connected my phone to my car. Both car and iPhone says they are connected.) All of the precious actions I’ve done more than 5 times in the last month each time after the latest iOS update.

if I try to call out, the car says unexpectedly disconnected from device. I have to use speaker. Sometimes randomly an hour or so later the car may just pick up the Bluetooth. It will last for the duration of that call. Then the next call... disconnected again.

Oh and I now have a ticket for driving using my phone (even though it was on speaker) with a serious fine and points on my license. In Jan 2nd I’m calling apple and demanding my iPhone X returned and a full refund. I also have a lot 100 in accessories (screen/case) that I can’t return! I’ve been with apple for YEARS, iMac, ipads, iPhones, you name it. DONE!!!

Nope I had my phone replaced with another phone. Same exact issue. My phone connects to other car Bluetooth but not to mine. Other phones connect to my cars Bluetooth.

it’s an issue between the iPhone 12 and my Hyundai Equus.

That's not encouraging, I have a support call booked with Apple but mine does not see any bluetooth devices at all, nothing regardless of manufacturer...it is simply endlessly searching but never finding. I have left it searching for hours, re-set it to factory settings, nothing, no bluetooth whatsoever!

Got the exact same issue. Got 2 new Iphone 12's and they will not connect phone calls through the car stereo system. Have had 2 chats with appeal and their engineers still not working. I know my bluetooth is connecting because it will play podcasts, Spotify or any other app with sound and it will pause the podcast when a call comes in and unpause it when the call ends, but will not play the call through the car system. They blame the car, but my iPhone 8 worked and my kids iPhone XR work fine with the car, it is just the new 12's that are not working.

Also having the same issues others are discussing endless searching, not auto connecting to my MacBook Pro through bluetooth. Totally frustrating. Now I know why I never get the newest phone, I usually get one a year old so that they have the kinks worked out.

The Bluetooth thing is a software issue, Apple is working on it. This is straight from Apple. It's beyond hit and miss for connectivity but for some strange reason, hey it's software, it slowly decides to connect to things that didn't prior. YMMV

All new phones should be “factory wiped” after you transfer anything and everything from the older unit otherwise the old unit and the new are considered the same by Bluetooth until you make the other devices forget about the old phone. They couldn’t do that until there were no longer two phones that had the same name..

That is an option and it may be the final resort. But before anyone tries it, be sure to back up your phone first. But apparently the engineers at Apple have a bug. What is interesting is that my phone is slowly adding the Bluetooth connections.

I was having the same issue but this worked. I went to my previous iPhone and clicked on each appropriate bluetooth device and asked to "Forget this device". I had to re- "pair" all of my bluetooth devices with my new iPhone. But at least it worked.

Got my Pro 12 max today and transferred all data from my 6+ via the Mac finder. All fine, except for the BT connection to my Jabras 75 active pro. Teufel BT speaker works fine, BT Connection established immediately. Re installed the Jabra app without success. iPhone re started, BT on/off, nothing.

works all perfect on my 6 years old iPhone 6+ and my new 1350€ device don’t.

Tell you 6+ to forget the Jabra app bluetooth. Be sure the names of 6+ and 12 Pro Max is not the same. I erased my XR and trade it in and the iCloud updated now everything works and I have 10 devices with bluetooth. It works.