macbook air won't pair with bluetooth speakers

Easiest solution and worked with me. Once I approached the speakers the computer connected with the speakers and from there I could then move away from the speakers and the connection did not drop.

Worked for me. Thanks!

It worked for me in Mac air.. Thank you champs for this great support.

it worked. thank you champs

I had an issue where my Macbook Air and iHome said they were connected to each other, but when I played sound on my laptop, it would not go through the iHome. Scared to reset my computer, I decided to investigate further.

If you go to "Bluetooth" in your menu bar, then under devices slide your mouse over your desired device. A side menu should pop up with an option being "Open Sound Preferences." From there go to "Output" and click on your desired device!
I hope this works. It's pretty silly this process in necessary, though. I was able to connect yesterday without doing this process...

Okay so i just had this problem and it's much simpler than previously stated

1) Go to your bluetooth settings

2) Scroll over the device that has been connected

3) Go to "Open Sound Preferences..."

An additional Tab should open up

4) Then, towards the top of the tab there should be three things you can click on "Sound Effects" "Output" and "Input"

5) Select the "Output"

6) Once you have selected that, there will be 2 options under Name "Internal Speaker....Built-In" and "The name of the device connected....Bluetooth"

7) Select the "Bluetooth" and Bam it worked for me

ive figured out the answer..lol

the speaker only pairs one device at a time, so if youve already paired your iphone into it,it will not pair with your mac..

solution:

turn off the speaker first, once completely powered off, hold power button at least 5 secs so that it enter into pairing mode (meaning it will pair to a new device that is on range). now check on the macbook for available bluetooth devices, your BT speaker should now be visible, then connect..

Taddaaaahhhh...

This worked for me and my macbook air and BTH220 bluetooth headset

EDIT: Apologies, I see now this fix was mentioned earlier.

I had this problem and found a different solution, so wanted to share: Go into Sound preferences, choose Output, and click the name of the speaker, rather than the auto-selected option.

It seems obvious, sure, but a more intuitive system would be for the laptop to switch to the speaker output automatically, once you've connected via Bluetooth.

Thank you, Xokyu -

Turned off my iPhone (which was paired to BT), then turned on the BT headphones, holding down the button long enough for it to search for mac - that finally worked! I was starting to think my older model mac just wasn't going to pair to BT, but this seems so easy now! THANK YOU!! THANK YOU!! THANK YOU!!

This worked! thanks so much!!

This worked like a charm thanks !!

This worked for me eventually. I think you need to have all four keys pressed before you hit the power button. Once I had my fingers synchronized it worked as described. Many thanks.

Thanks for the tip on holding the Jambox "on" switch for 5 seconds to pair with macbook ... worked

thanks a zillion times 😎