Bluetooth issues on my iPhone 15 Pro Max with iOS 17.0.3

Hey peeps - I shared my experience on this thread over a month ago. I felt like I was going mad at the time. But around 3-4 weeks ago Apple Sydney gave me a replacement device and I haven’t experienced any Bluetooth drop outs / disconnects since. I was always told it was a software issue at the time too. If I were you, demand a replacement device. Just make sure you take screenshots to justify your issue. Hope this helps.

Apple repaired my iPhone 15 Pro as in replacing the entire logic board, with just the screen and back remaining. Unfortunately still have the same issue. Am on 17.1.1 and hasn’t been resolved sadly. Until they do, I’m swapping phones with my wife and using her iPhone 15 and she’ll use mine as the longer this continues, the possibility that my hearing or hearing aids may get damaged from this awful static that occurs when the sound does drop. No such issues on iPad Pro or any other device. Last I heard, Apple were aware and all hearing aid manufacturers including Oticon were also now working with them to try and resolve the issue due to having a lot of unhappy customers who have upgraded to iPhone 15 Pro or Pro Max models…

I was like the 10th person to comment on this thread. I bought my iPhone 15 Pro 1TB one week after it came out. I'm still on 17.0.3 because I don't dare to update.

I've been receiving updates on this thread for almost two months now. I called Apple again yesterday for the second time. They said it helps if we keep calling in so that the engineers can upvote this problem so they'll address it.

So my recommendation for everyone here is to call Apple at least once a month and ask the (senior) engineer to upvote this problem so it will get fixed.

Just my personal experience. And I can’t directly reference it as it’s still in testing, but the very very latest version you can install… actually fixed the issue for me.

At the office today and haven’t had a single issue with my Bluetooth :)

I have had to go back to 17.1.1 as the Apple engineers won’t do anything if on any other software version. Spoke to them yesterday and they are now running enhanced logging on my iPhone 15 Pro again. Still have dropped sound and static. Have sent screenshots and links to various websites and groups regarding this issue to them so hopefully now they’ll sort it out, especially as hearing aid manufacturers are also now working with them due to the complaints they have had from their own customers that have upgraded to iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max models.

ios 17.1.1 bluetooh doesn't work, it always fails and going to the store to ask for a replacement phone says there's a problem with ios.
Apple could speak to its loyal customers.
Especially customers YouTube channels with a lot of followers.

Sadly not. Has been restored, repaired and updated many times. Apple engineers are now involved and have undertaking further Bluetooth logging diagnostics on my phone today and they are very interested in what is happening so clearly they found something in the initial enhanced logs that was sent to them a few days ago. Let’s hope they are able to find a solution to the issues.

That is an obvious recommendation. Updating to the latest version of iOS is the first thing anyone would do and the first thing that I did. Not sure how many times I need to repeat myself, but this is a defect with the iPhone 15 Pro Max and iOS.

Apple support "claims" that Apple engineers are reviewing the logs from my phone as well to troubleshoot this issue. However, I will believe it when they get back to me with results of their resolution (or non-resolution). Actually I will be surprised if Apple even gets back to me. Their support has become horrible of late.

Same. Only thing that works for me is to turn Bluetooth of and back on again on the phone, then shutdown and restart the car. Then it will maintain a connection for 5-10 minutes until it drops and have to repeat these steps again, only to have it work for a few minutes. Horrible!

Clearly you have not been reading all the messages above. A new phone has the exact same problem. I've already replaced multiple new phones. The problem is with the pro and Pro max versions of iPhone 15

Mine does exactly the same, and it keep doing that also on IOS 17.1.1

It's very anoying not to have a working bluetooth conection between a car and a 2023 expensive premium phone.

This sucks and i'm very dissapointed by Apple, my old X worked just perfect, i wanted an upgrade and for €1500 i got a mess 😡

Hey! It happened to me too, on my iPhone 15 Pro. I would connect it to any car be it a 2012 BMW or a 2017 Toyota, it would play the songs perfectly fine, and I could listen to the conversation during the call, But the other guy wouldn't be able to hear me as the voice would always become distorted.

If you too are facing this exact issue then this may not be a problem with the Bluetooth but instead, this would happen when the Voice Isolation feature is enabled which has become even more enhanced in iOS 17. So all you have to do is that whenever you're in a call, swipe down from the top right to open the Control Centre, Tap Mic Mode and set it to Standard.

This fixed the problem I had whenever I would attend a call while the phone is connected to my car. And this fix is applicable for all iPhones running iOS 16 and above.

Thank You!

Fortunately I was within my carrier’s 30 day window to my return my iPhone 15 Pro Max once and for all! Good riddance to this piece of garbage! 😃 Today I restored my iPhone 13 Pro Max and it’s back to everything working fine! 😃 So happy made this decision!

Fortunately I was within my carrier Verizon’s 30 day window to my return my iPhone 15 Pro Max! Good riddance to this piece of garbage! 😃 Today I restored my iPhone 13 Pro Max and it’s back to everything working fine! 😃 So happy I made this decision!