iPhone5 bluetooth not working

Bluetooth in iPhone 5 is not working. It is not recognizing the bluetooth devices even though its turned on.

iPhone 5, iOS 6

Posted on Sep 21, 2012 7:04 PM

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Jan 21, 2013 8:03 PM in response to rputiniscs

Hello everyone, have you guys done a restet on your iphones? if not hold down both the sleep button and home button when the iphone is on and wait for it to turn off and turn back on with the apple logo, worked with my friends iphone 5. I do know that there is a hotfix that apple is going to release for bluetooth on 6.1 i found out by my apple developing friend. He says they wont release the info about it.

Jan 22, 2013 10:09 AM in response to Bongithemba

Bluetooth file transfer is not a feature of iOS.


Bluetooth is supported for stereo headsets/speakers, handsfree telephone devices/headsets, some keyboards,

some peer-to-peer apps from the app store and internet tethering where provided by the carrier.

Other than this it will not connect to a phone/computer/device. (thanks to ckuan for the wording)

Jan 22, 2013 1:58 PM in response to Cjoliet

I had a stable connection with my iPhone 4s and my 2006 Acura TSX. One day it started acting funky. I used the voice feature to remove my phone, however I then could not get my Bluetooth to re-establish a connection.


After much frustration, the following worked:


Connected my iPhone 4s blutooth to a DIFFERENT blutooth (in this case, I used a TomTom GPS)


>> I then was able to connect up to my car no problem. When doing the search feature, the car found in phone in less than 5 seconds.


This seemed to clear out the cache, or whatever was keeping my phone from connecting to my car.


I hope this helps someone else.


Thanks

Jan 22, 2013 8:31 PM in response to RJSiR

Has anyone had any luck with this lately? I have an Advent Bluetooth installed in my Mazda 2. My Iphone 3gs allowed outgoing calls to be connected and audible. Incoming calls stopped the radio but was only audible on the phone itself.I would have to yell into the phone that I would call the person back.

I just got an Iphone 5 and hoped that that might make a difference to the bluetooth issue. Not so.Still yelling into the phone. I am really tired of this issue. It has being ongoing for years!

Jan 24, 2013 9:02 AM in response to rodneyat

Today was my last day to return my IPhone 5. I decided to give it one more call.

Talked with an Apple Tech who "assured" me that Apple is going to release an

update to IOS that will fix the problem and there will be no need to have a dealer

do it. However, he said there is no information as to when this update will be released.

Wonder how long they have been telling customers that.

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