Can't pair iPhone via Bluetooth

Thank you markspark.. your solution worked for me..

Here what i did: after pairing and receiving the pairing code i turned off Wifi, turned on personal hotspot and chose "Bluetooth and USB only". Then on my macbook i went to System preferences>network > Bluetooth Pan and clicked connect. And it was CONNECTED

Jasmin, I failed to pair my new MAB13 with my old iPh4S - but your SOP works wonders !

obviously a conflict WiFi - BT prevents "total partnership by all channels"

Fred

sorry - I forget the cudo's to markspark !!!

I have the same problem; I can't pair my iPhone 5 (iOS 7) and iMac (Mavericks) via Bluetooth. Just after a sec when iMac finds iPhone and shows "connected" it changes to " not connected". It says make sure network access is enabled, but there is no setting to change network access for Blouetooth.

My purpose for making pair is using iPhone as remote for Keynote. I do not need internet sharing. Do u have any solution?

TNX

I had the same issue trying to bluetooth pair Ipad Air with Iphone 4S.... I tried everything to get the two units to pair together as they wouldnt even see each other and they were both sitting along side each other. Then I thought because the Ipad air was straight out of the box I have to set the Ipad air up using Itunes etc but even setting it up on that still didnt work. My last crack of the whip I thought I would try from a different angle and I found that I had to do the following to get the pair

Put both devices in airplane mode

turn on bluetooth on both devices

turn on personal hotspot on the Iphone 4S

turn off airplane mode on the Iphone 4S

Turn off the Wifi on the Iphone 4S

as soon as I did that the ipad air straight away saw the Iphone and commenced pairing and then the Iphone saw the Ipad and the 2 were then paired...

Both now see each other when bluetooth is turned On and Off

I hope that helps others

Umm...Hello- not sure if this will help...but I have 5s and iPad Air...I turned on the personal hotspot and BT to pair the devices...:-D

RJBorelli thank you very much.you are a star

Thanks! that helped me out!

Thanks!!

I had same issue with iPhone 6 Plus. This solution worked.

Thank you - connecting via "Bluetooth Pan" worked.

Amazing! Thank you!

How you ever worked that out I will never know but it worked!

Apple seem to think they are trying to create the successor to the Enigma code machine, not a consumer product

Hi all, as an additional step, I had to also turn off the wifi on my mac air for this to work with my iphone 5.

Thanks markspark!

Thank You!!

It works!!

Hello!

Thanks for the fix.

I am having the same issue with an iPhone 5c and MBP 2011.

Does this mean I have to do this every time I want to use Bluetooth between my phone and mac, or just once?

Thanks!