Q: why cant i connect my iphone 5 via bluetooth to my macboook pro

I'm not much of a Bluetooth guru, but my understanding is that the "different connecting protocol" is the issue. Bluetooth is a highly stylized protocol based on "profiles," each for a narrow purpose. For two devices to communicate, they must have overlapping protocols. In many (most? all??) cases, they have to have complementary "ends" of each protocol (such as a keyboard sender and a keyboard receiver, a sound sender and a sound receiver, or a headset and a headset connector).

Huh...weird, I got my MacBook to connect to my iPhone 5 and tether via bluetooth???

I think it's because I didn't delete it in the bluetooth list on the MBP...on a whim to see what would happen, I clicked on it to connect and it connected!

Maybe that's a back door way to make it work? I'm going to play around with it a bit more and let you guys know what I find.

Still connects and tether's via BlueTooth...YAY!!!

Please be more specific as to what this enables you to do... Can you use your Mac as a speakerphone? Can you browse the contents of the phone? Can you do any functions other than just connect?

For those who are interested, Phone Amego allows connection of the iPhone 5 to the macbook pro for use as a speakerphone. Works fine except there is no built in noise cancelation, so there is a distinct echo for the person on the other side of the call.

this is so annoying. then whats the function of bluetooth in iphone 5? agh!

ywong0104 wrote:

 

this is so annoying. then whats the function of bluetooth in iphone 5? agh!

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ywong0104 wrote:

 

this is so annoying. then whats the function of bluetooth in iphone 5? agh!

Connects to BT headsets, speakers, cars, wireless braille displays, hearing aid interfaces, et cetera.

Provides a conduit for enabled apps to communicate between devices. (Examples: iPhoto on an iPad can "beam" photos to iPhoto on an iPhone or vice versa. Camera for iPad can allow your iPhone to act as a camera for your iPad; less use these days than when iPads had no camera, but they still aren't as good as iPhone cameras. Multiple GarageBand instances can jam.)

Yeah, this happened to me as well. I recently tried to use my iPhone 5 as a remote for a keynote presentation, but had no WiFi connection. I too figured that I could connect via Bluetooth - no such luck.

When I looked it up, Apple states you can only connect via Bluetooth between two iOS devices but NOT a Mac!

Go figure. Very disappointing Apple...

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3325?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US

When a Wi-Fi connection is unavailable you can use Keynote Remote with Bluetooth to control your Keynote slideshow from one iOS device to another (iPad, iPhone, iPod touch). However, slides may take longer to appear on Keynote Remote when connected via Bluetooth. You cannot use Keynote Remote via Bluetooth with a Mac.

well, that's silly....! I tried and all the option was forget device...? come on apple..

Mine is very funny. MBP can connect BT to iPad Mini but not for IP5. I just want to get shared internet connection from MBP

This is exactly what I want to do!

Sitting here in a hotel room with my iPad Mini sharing my Wireless via Bluetooth and my IP5 unable to do the same simple task

Apple this is NUTS!! this is such a basic requirement

Please fix

Cheers Robert

Bluetooth was never really designed as a File Transfer Medium. It was made possible on many devices as a feature, but its implementatioin is extremely limited.

for starters Bluetooth file transferes are extremely SLOW. with the upper limit on 95% of bluetooth enabled devices being 10mBit/sec. the usual throughput with most protocols in the Bluetooth stack barely reaches 2mBit/sec.

If you need to transfer files from your phone, Wi-Fi or USB is by far the fastest and easiest method. Most PC can run in ad hoc mode and act as a Wi-Fi AP (with 3rd party AP software) and you can connect your iphone or other wi-fi enable phone that way if you realy must have wireless connections without an establish network.

Bluetooth conections can be extremely unstable and are only good over short distances at most 10 meters Line of Site. Also the Bio Electric field generated by a human body can interfear with bluetooth signals making connections erattic. Bluetooth also shares the same technology and RF as Wi-Fi so having a operating Wi-Fi can also cause interfearance to BT.

I believe apple did not want to support the Nightmare of the various protocols (most of which need licensing) to enable file transfers over BT. instead they opted to leave BT on their Phones and tablets purely as what it was initially intended as a wireless Interface for things like keyboards and mouse, they also (in later models) decided to enable the use of headsets but this implemetation is also somewhat flaky with dropouts being experienced even when devices only seperated by less than 1 meter. Apple is not alone in this department nearly all devices that have enable Stereo headset connections suffer dropouts.

Unlike wi-fi BT has not seen much developement, it is an ancient technology that is for the most part obsolete, as wi-fi and Cellular Data networks has expanded to have further range and faster speeds.

Well, since you put it that way... thanks for the explanation. It still wonder what alternate solutions are out there then. An Apple TV remote? There has to be a solution for a remote w/o a WiFi connection.

Already been done

http://gizmodo.com/5982909/5-apps-to-turn-your-phone-into-a-universal-remote

thanks for the info... Guess it's more hassle than advantage using BT.. wifi direct file transfer would be good.