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Bluetooth Shortcut on Home Screen?

On my Nokia N97 I can easily add a shortcut to the Bluetooth settings on my home screen to toggle BT on/off. I cannot find how to do this with my iPhone 4.This would really make things easier for me especially as I have to manually connect with my Mazda RX-8 evey time I drive.

How can I do this?

iMac 24-inch, Mac OS X (10.6.4), iMac, iPhone 4, iPod nano

Posted on Aug 10, 2010 2:42 AM

59 replies

Aug 10, 2010 9:18 AM in response to paulking

OK.....I guess BT must use some battery juice, but I'm getting more than 2 days charge on my phone with BT running all the time.......

ChrisJ4203

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Aug 10, 2010 9:20 AM in response to Richard Morris

If you would like to see a function added to the iPhone, you may submit feedback to Apple at this address [www.apple.com/feedback/iphone.html]

It does not mean it will be implemented, but you can let them know you want to see it. This is where they receive information about user requests.

Aug 10, 2010 10:16 AM in response to Julian Wright

Julian Wright wrote:
Does knowing that it's Jim who's failing, in any way help to alleviate the problem?

Sadly, no. But wait 'til I see him!

Aug 10, 2010 11:36 AM in response to Richard Morris

🙂

Robdew

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Sep 13, 2010 3:42 AM in response to Julian Wright

Maybe put a Bluetooth or 'power'-button next to the iPod-buttons in the multitask panel in iOS4?

pointm

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Sep 13, 2010 3:57 AM in response to Richard Morris

I would like something like that on my 3GS, shortcuts, as I do on my Android, its called Power Bar, dock like bar that sits on my home screen, just a tap to turn on/off anything you can think off, no need to open an app for that or menu.

Extra Extra!........Jim just got a one way ticket to South Africa, he is running away hiding from everybody, too many people want to find him.

Mar 10, 2011 6:04 AM in response to lobsterghost1

I have the same problem with the IPod touch. I use a stereo bluetooth device to listen music without any cables and when I turn on my bluetooth device, the ipod didn't find it automatically. I need to go in the menu and manually click on the listed device to connect to it. It didn't seem to look for know device continuously like a cell phone.

With the first generation of the Ipod Nano, we had the option to bring some settings menu in the main menu. I didn't understand why this is not available on the ipod touch. We could create a shortcut ot a web page, why we are unable to create a shortcut to a sub menu of the settings. This could be usefull for all kind of settings if someone has to change it frequently.

themark1

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Mar 16, 2011 5:36 PM in response to Burger100

And now with iOS 4.3 the "General" settings item is now scrolled off the initial screen!
So to turn Bluetooth on or off; its:
Settings, <scroll>, General, Bluetooth, On/Off.

Yay! 5 actions required now instead of 4; brilliant! NOT!

With this sort of response to user's reasonable requests, then an iPhone won't be my next phone!

Mar 16, 2011 6:27 PM in response to themark1

themark1 wrote:
And now with iOS 4.3 the "General" settings item is now scrolled off the initial screen!
So to turn Bluetooth on or off; its:
Settings, <scroll>, General, Bluetooth, On/Off.

Yay! 5 actions required now instead of 4; brilliant! NOT!

*With this sort of response to user's reasonable requests, then an iPhone won't be my next phone*!

Welcome to the forum. I see this is your first post. When you say user's reasonable requests, you may be thinking that this site is with Apple employees. This is a user-to-user site, hosted by Apple, but not responded to by Apple employees in any way......If you want to make a "reasonable request" you need to write Apple directly by writing them at the following address: http://www.apple.com/feedback/iphone.html

themark1

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Mar 16, 2011 7:59 PM in response to lobsterghost1

Thanks for the Welcome.

"If you want to make a "reasonable request" you need to write Apple directly by writing them at the following address"

Which I and presumably a number of other people had already done. I'm sure noone asked for turning Bluetooth on and off harder than it already was, but that's what has happened for me with the latest version of iOS.

Mar 16, 2011 8:21 PM in response to themark1

I'm glad you made your voice heard. Don't however, be surprised if this feature never makes into future iOS versions. No single phone has every single feature every person could want. Droids do some things iPhones don't. iPhones do things Droids don't and so on and so on. Ultimately, you choose the phone that best meets your needs and if it turns out to not be iPhone, you choose something else. I'm not being condescening. Honest. After being on this forum for some time now, this request has not been a hot topic. It's not really a deficiency of the phone. It just requires you take a few extra steps to accomplish.

Take care......

Polatok

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Apr 1, 2011 9:01 AM in response to lobsterghost1

ok, how about this until apple comes up with an easier app?

goto settings, General, bluetooth, hit the home button to get out of the application but not close it. next time you need to turn it on, do the double click, and get back to the settings and it should still be on the bluetooth toggler. Save a couple of clicks i guess, but only if toggling bluetooth is your biggest problem and not wifi, data etc. this way i guess you'll always be running the settings app in the background, but better than bt hogging/draining the battery.

espiddly

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Jul 31, 2011 8:17 PM in response to Richard Morris

there is now. use your get out of apple jail card (jb your idevice), install sbsettings. many many toggles inc bluetooth enable/disable, mono bluetooth (for tunes etc to go to earpiece, location, 3g, wifi, push etc.

espiddly

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Jul 31, 2011 8:27 PM in response to themark1

can we make unreasonable requests like....auto connect to x device when blue tooth is turned on (with one tap)? i never use my earpiece to listen to otr on my bt earpiece because i have to take time, tap ....iphone on, settings, general, bluetooth, on, turn on device, set device to search, set iphone to search, wait, enable device found, back out of settings, start tunes, pick playlist, choose audio out, adjust volume, shut off iphone, adjust volume on earpiece and finally ask someone what i was doing before i used this amazing technology.

happy apple users are missing a part of their brain. is it an operation anyone can get?

espiddly

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Jul 31, 2011 8:35 PM in response to lobsterghost1

iphone on, settings, general, bluetooth, on, turn on device, set device to search, set iphone to search, wait, enable device found, back out of settings, start tunes, pick playlist, choose audio out, adjust volume, shut off iphone, adjust volume on earpiece and finally ask someone what i was doing before i used this amazing technology.

happy apple users are missing a part of their brain. is it an operation anyone can get? maybe it should come with the purchase of an apple product?

some people play with their stuff, others want to use it ....apple recognises only the former. hence the birth of the pc, clones and the jailbreak community. nothing sweeter than one or two taps into anything your heart desire...unless you just want to play with the thing.

sometimes i wonder at people who say silly "apple" things. are they an apple bot or something. sheesh

Bluetooth Shortcut on Home Screen?