Cannot connect IPhone 4S to Macbook Pro

Hi..

It's not possible to pair an iPhone with a Mac. If you need to transfer photos, video, calendars, contacts, etc, connect the iPhone to your computer, launch iTunes.

iOS: Syncing with iTunes

I am not able to connect Nokia Headset BH-217 to my IPhone 4S via Bluetooth. However, I was able to connect the Nokia Headset BH-217 to my old IPhone 3GS via Bluetooth.

The headset may not be compatible with devices running iOS 5 but rather the older version on your iPhone 3GS if it hasn't been updated. Check the Nokia site for Bluetooth / iPhone support.

This worked for me. I had a iPhone 4s running IOS 5 and a black MacBook running Lion and tethering worked fine. When I changed to a MacBook Pro mid 2012 tethering stopped working and it wouldn't tether even when using USB cable and the personal hotspot showed as active. Upgrading to IOS 6 didn't help but turning off personal hotspot and Bluetooth on the phone, deleting the phone from the mac and turning off both devices seemed to do the trick. What is it about turning these **** things off and on again that still seems to work?!

Thanks, turning off the wifi on my iPhone 4S solved my problem.

Okay, I was having a lot of trouble but I think I've figured it out. I have the new iPhone 5 but I'm guessing the issue may be the same since I think the problem sounds like it's with OS X Lion.

1) Make sure bluetooth is on and discoverable for both, and that Personal Hotspot is on for your iPhone

2) Go to System Preferences >> Bluetooth

3) Click the "+" button to add a device

4) Add the iPhone and click "Pair" when asked to pair

5) DO NOT try to connect at this point or the iPhone will ask you to forget (restart this process if you did this)

6) Click on your iPhone under bluetooth devices listed

7) Click on "Advanced"

8) Change "Modem" to "RS232" and click the box that is empty (don't know what that does) so that it is checked

9) Go to System Preferences >> Network

10) Select your iPhone's network name

11) Connect!

I spent a while trying to figure this out and may have made some other changes, but this worked for me and now I can connect via bluetooth and tether to my iPhone 5 from my Macbook Pro.

Good luck!

Thanks a lot for taking the time to write this up. I did play around yesterday and ended up establishing a connection i. to my iPhone 5 and without the need to follow your steps. I find it bizarre but I basically switched off hotspot and bluetooth on the iPhone, switched off bluetooth on the MacBook, restarted both devices and started again: switch hotspot and bluetooth on, switch on bluetooth on MacBook. Then search for the iPhone, pair to it by accepting the pin on the phone, and then shortly after accepting the connection on the MacBook.... So basically a switch off, restart and switch on seemed to sort it... I'll keep your work around on hand for another time though. I think the key thing could be to turn on hotspot and bluetooth on the phone and then bluetooth on the MacBook.

I solved this problem. But before, sorry about my english. I would like to tell that im not a expert em mac, but my mac at this moment is conected with internet using my iphone 4 bluetooth.

im gonna try to explain what i did.

I follow some steps sugested by Jake Glascock

1) Make sure bluetooth is on and discoverable for both, and that Personal Hotspot is on for your iPhone

2) Go to System Preferences >> Bluetooth

3) Click the "+" button to add a device

4) Add the iPhone and click "Pair" when asked to pair

5) DO NOT try to connect at this point or the iPhone will ask you to forget (restart this process if you did this)

6) Click on your iPhone under bluetooth devices listed

This next step is diferent

7) Click on Edit serial ports and do like mine

8) then click to connect to network ( in the images tha i posted my iphone is connected because i'm using )

That's all you iphone will be paired.

I don't know why, but works.

The proof is this post.... 🙂

Thank you very much, that fixed it for me even though your second screenshot is missing I think (you picked the first one twice) AND my issue wasn't regarding internet tethering, but pairing the devices to use the Mac App Store App "type2phone". By connecting to the Phones network I could pair the devices. After pairing I turned tethering off and type2phone still works! So if you cannot pair your iPhone with your Mac (Book Air), use tethering once and it will work!

Hello guys, i've been searching for some answers to this question (Connecting an iphone to a MacbookPro via Bluetooth) there is only one thing you should do if you connecting your iphone to macbookpro for the first time is that you should enable both Personal Hotspot and Bluetooth.If you connected once or twice but cant reconnect again i don't have the answer for that.But enabling both was the solution of my problem.

Hope this will work for you too..

This is so simple. all you need to do is turn on the personal hotspot & hit connect on blutooth settings. if you do so you are ready to go. but file transfer to the device wont allow from macbook. hope this will help you

Cheers.

Make sure your computer is NOT connetcetd to any WIFI network.

Well, I was having issues too, but last year it wa NO problems, but just now, I persevered, and turned everything on and off, it would not connect via blue tooth, both with usb in and out, it would not connect to personal hotspot, so i re-booted the phone (iphone 4s) and turned off wi-fi on macbook pro, turned it on again and there it was, now paired via personal hot spot, with no usb connection in place, so IT DOES work, just as temperantal as my ten year old son :-)

Thanks! This totally fixed my problem.

Carolyn Samit wrote:

It's not possible to pair an iPhone with a Mac.

So, how is it supposed to be possible to use this application sold on the Mac App Store:

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/bluetooth-screen-lock/id509251123?mt=12

Note that in the screen shot on this page the paired devices are an iPad and an iPhone:

http://lifehacker.com/5905343/bluetooth-screen-lock-secures-your-mac-when-a-blue tooth-device-is-out-of-range

Not sure if you found the answer to your problem but to pair your phone to keynote remote..just goto settings and turn on personal hotspot. Then connect to the hotspot with airport on your macbook and then the remote works fine.

That's just amazing, two of Apple's premiere products - iPhone and Macbook Pro - are not configured to exchange files over Bluetooth. It worked with a Samsung phone and the same MBP. Come on Apple, you can't leave out something so basic.