iPhone 12 cannot pair with Homewerks Bathroom BT Speakers

I have a Homewerks bathroom BT speaker that worked with iPhones 7, 8, and 10 without any issues. This very same device cannot connect to the new iPhone 12 pro max.

There are similar threads pointing to generic BT connectivity issues with the new iPhone (e.g. ), which include procedures that worked with other BT devices. However, none of these procedures solved the issue of pairing with the Homewerks device.

My Homewerks BT speaker's model is 7130-06-BT, but the issue seems to affect all Homewerks bathroom BT speakers.

iPhone 12 Pro Max, iOS 14

Posted on Jan 3, 2021 11:41 AM

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Posted on Jan 4, 2021 6:49 AM

Probably not what you want to hear, but if a problem only occurs with one device from the iPhone 12 the problem is most likely in the speaker firmware. The one change in the iPhone 12 Bluetooth is that it was upgraded to a newer version of Bluetooth 5, and the speaker may not be compatible with it. Is there a way to update the firmware on the speaker?

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Mar 30, 2021 11:51 PM in response to tomkocz

I’ve been having the same issue with my homewerks Bluetooth speaker since I switched from iPhone 8 + to iPhone 12 .

What’s funny though , we have an old iPhone 11 and the speaker does work / connect to that phone, but we do need to connect our new phones to the speaker.

we are looking to replace our speaker which we bought from Home Depot


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