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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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Sep 4, 2015 10:40 AM in response to praveenkay

It's my first year anniversary without handsfree between my Audi A6 and my iPhone 5 with IOS 8.4.1 As soon as I made the mistake of upgrading to version 8 my phone stopped working. I have done everything possible and thinkable: upgrade every time to a new version, reset everything, delete each time the device from both car and iPhone, factory reset, upgrade MMI on my car, follow Audi's site for interconnectivity via bluetooth with all cell phones makes, follow all kind of discussion groups, contacted Apple, etc. Now I have an old, obsolete Blackberry that does work with no problem. Apple has enormous problems in my opinion in communicating with the outside world: Wi-Fi, Bluetooth. All energies are used in the latest Apple new development and very little energy in basic, security / safety, simple features as bluetooth. I'm not celebrating this first year anniversary, I did not buy the new 6 iPhone and I will not buy the new coming on the 9th of September. Sad, very sad to see a great company drowning in a glass of bluetooth water

May 23, 2016 11:56 AM in response to svartbjorn

I didn't have trouble with iPhone 4s ios updates but I now have iPhone 5 that doesn't link to my Panasonic Link-to-Cell base unit. I did first deregister the iPhone 4s before trying to link the iPhone 5. You mentioned the PIN but my iPhone 5 doesn't prompt me to enter a PIN. I followed the Panasonic manual directions step by step. NEVER MIND! I realized that I wasn't following the Apple instructions carefully, specifically "Tap your accessory to pair" which I found on Set up and use third-party Bluetooth accessories - Apple Support in a post by another person here. So glad it's working!

iPhone5 bluetooth not working

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