iPhone 12 Pro Max Bluetooth Issues

I kept Googling how to resolve this issue, and finally found one that had me turn off bluetooth and headphone and turn back on in a certain order, and it worked. Don't give up! :)

The reset procedure fixes this!

https://support.skullcandy.com/hc/en-us/articles/360044255593-Indy-Fuel

Does "everything" include Settings/ General/ Reset/ Reset Network Settings? That seems to have helped quite a few in this thread.

Reset network settings

I am having problems with my bluetooth headset dropping out constantly. Disconnects and then pairs back over and over and over. Extremely frustrating. I turned bluetooth off in all other devices followed all the advice, but it still happens. Then I tried my headsets with another iPhone, and they work just fine. It’s something with this very expensiveIPHONE 12 PRO MAX, and Apple is getting away by saying it’s a conflict with other devices.

I have the same problem, my iPhone 12 Pro Max does not see any bluetooth devices at all....not the case with my old 6s...cannot pair with the car, cannot pair with anything. Only one solution I can think of is to send the thing back!

I have the same issues, spend a lot of quality time, close to 2 hours with Apple, loaded diagnostic software to find out what the 12PM is doing, he sent the files to the engineers to see if they could help. I'm still waiting to reconnect with Erik. I can get Bluetooth to connect with some non-apple devices but not with any Apple devices.

I got my pro max last Monday (11/30/20) left the store and turned my truck on and it immediately recognized my trucks Bluetooth. I didn’t think anything of especially since the store was horrible to work with ,but that’s a whole other dilemma. Got home and tried to connect to my home stereo and it didn’t search at all. I turned the phone off and then it would see the stereo and my various other BT devices then it just erases them and continues to search. It’s been like that since day one.

We can’t be told that the new iPhone is so great and it doesn’t even connect to Bluetooth. We all spend $1000.00 on a phone and this type of crap happens ?

Im just glad when I searched google this forum came up because I was beginning to think my phone was the lemon. I hope any new information gets posted here. Still very upset with apple that this issue hasn’t been resolved yet. Stop worrying about emojis and security terms and make the phones just work.

on a side note I was told by a former apple employee that changing your phones name is not recommended. It’s not the cause of the issue but in general it’s not a good idea.

This is so frustrating, bought the Iphone 12 Pro Max just a day old only to find out that the Bluetooth setting is defective and does not show any devices I have, e.g. bose speaker, sony headset, etc.

Works fine with my older Iphone, not just in this latest and greatest and most expensive Apple Iphone to date.

I wish Apple will provide answers as to why this expensive phone will not have a functioning Bluetooth as it is frustrating with no bluetooth connectivity at all.

I tried calling Telstra store that I bought it from, left messages and emailed, but no luck, and hoping here some answers will shed light to this..

Melbourne, Australia

Apple support are doing diagnostics on my phone as the problem persists, I will pass on the results of their diagnostics when I have them. So far, the phone has had a factory re-set to try to resolve but it still is unable to detect any bluetooth devices from any source.

No, they didn’t .... they said that their technicians will either replace the phone or repair the existing hardware which infers that either way they will be returning a phone which has functioning Bluetooth.

I’m having Bluetooth connectivity issues as well but my iPhone 12 Pro recognizes the devices but will not connect. I’ve tried all of the recommendations from restarting the phone to resetting the network connections. Really aggravated....

That is not the reason for me. My phone was working fine until around September when the Bluetooth started dropping in and out every 30 seconds. I thought it was my headset as everything Apple told me to do didn’t work and they insisted it was not the phone.

I turned off every Bluetooth device in the house, thinking it was trying to connect to another device. That’s not it. I am using my mother’s iPhone to listen to podcasts and music. What a waste of money for the 12 Max Pro!

Just wait, they are working on it, it should be better in the next update...as usual 😁 Mine had issues then suddenly started adding bluetooth connections, not all at once but over the course of a week or so.

The BIG question is - How long do you wait for? The phone arrived on Thursday last week and already it showed that a software update was available (which I installed) and then this evening it showed another software update was available (which I have installed) and yet neither have rectified the issue. With the resources and skills that Apple have at their disposal just how hard can it be?