Iphone 5 wont pair with my new macbook pro

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Hey Rich,

I am really confused as to why a person who hates Apple products so much is even on an Apple Support Forum...Much less why he feels obligated to blow you ****. Seems to me he may be in denial.

Probably posting from a droid device.

I've had to do the renaming thing again, as having done a bluetooth-only sync correctly it forgot how to do it again.

It's hard to work out what's happning here, but maybe the renaming causes some kind of refreshing of the code and makes the sync possible, until something else gets in the way?

Been an apple supporter since they were invented, but struggling to understand what they are playing at these days.

Got the same problem.

I just had to authorize the connection sharing on my iphone, then the bluetooth connection went well.

Hope this helps.

How do you do that please.

Mine has stopped again and the renaming is no longer working

Just go to your iphone settings, then connexion sharing. Just put Yes.

Then try to connect bluetooth.

Hi Daneil

Thanks for this - but I can't find anything at all on my iphone called connexion or connection sharing in my settings. Where eactly is it?

Tom

My iphone is in french. I just did a bad translation. Sorry. I switched my language to english.

1/ Go to settings

2/ Personnal hotspot

3/ put it on

then try to connect Bluetooth again.

Let me know if it works

Ah yes, I know all about that. But I want to be able to pair my phone and mac when I am not anywhere near the internet. So you can only do it if you are connected to the internet via mobile data? Well I guess there is some logic in that, but I'm often in a place with no signal at all, so have always used bluetooth for synching (on previous smart phones).

This sounds like Apple assuming we all live in cities again. Not small remote islands like me (sometimes).

Thanks anyway

Putting that option on, allowed me to pair my mac and ùmy iphone through bluetooth.

Without putting that option on, it doesn't pair at all.

Having spent countless hours with several different Apple representatives in different department, my last conversation was with a Senior Tech Support Manager in the iPhone Tech dept. Most likely the rudest woman I have ever talked in a customer service field, I would love to ad adjectives of what I really think about her, but will refrain.

Then I talked to AT&T for well over an hour, where I ended up talking to a Tier 1 Tech Supervisor, who could not have been nicer and more helpful. I explained my dilemma, that after much research I am pretty sure that the Hotspot has to be enabled on the iPhone to be able to connect with my Mac via Bluetooth.

Well if any of you are like me and have a grandfathered unlimited data plan, then Hotspot service is not an available service and I would have to change plans for it to be. Obviously I am not going to change my plan, which would not make any sense.

BUT the AT&T rep wanted to make sure that what I was saying was correct and see if we could test it, so she temporarily set up my account with an additional data plan that would include Hotspoting. We ran the test and magic happened, it worked, unfortunately it was only for a 12-hour period, so now I am back to square one, but at least I know what the reason is.

You have to have Hotspot enabled on your phone for this to work!

As I said, Apple already confirmed to me that your precious I Phone CANNOT pair with your MacBookPro (or probably any other computer) via Bluetooth... perhaps you can do this via Hotspot or some other convoluted means.. but then again, doesn't that take away the whole point of Bluetooth (eg: simple straightforward connection)??

This is (yet another) shortcoming of an Apple product.. like most of you, I was sold on Apple for aesthetics but am aware of its technical shortcomings.. in time, perhaps you will learn too...

The only thing you can pair your computer and iPhone together via Bluetooth with is to use Personal Hotspot. The iPhone will not pair with the Mac for anything else. It does not support file transfers or anything like that. You can connect to the Personal Hotspot if you need to use the iPhone's cellular data on your Mac to connect to the Internet.

Hi everybody,

I also am experiencing the same problem as you guys: mid 2010 Macbook Pro 13" and a brand new iPhone 5S.

devices pair, but won't connect.

I tried to shorten my phone's name: no success.

I tried to activate the hotspot on my iPhone. Curiously enough, it seems like the wifi connections still remains active (as far as I was concerned, you can't have both the hotspot and the wireless connection active simultaneously). No success anyway.

I tried again to connect the iPhone to my MBP (the hotspot being active), and got a popup message that goes more or less like this (I'm translating from italian):

Connection failed

"MacBook Pro di Giovanni" is not supported

Ignore device

Well done, Apple!

I join the club of those who are strongly disappointed by this and ask Apple to fix this problem ASAP! 😠😠😠

It is very strange. Apple seem to have missed the point of Bluetooth.

Its a wireless connection to use when you are NOT on-line.

I can pair my mac with my android phone and synch ok.

I can pair my iphone with my keyboard and it works just fine.

I can pair my ketboard with my mac (I think), but not the mac and iphone when I'm not on-line.

Apple assume we'll always have a phone signal and mobile data. We don't - even in large town and cities.

Hence Bluetooth.

Wake up Apple - the technology esists, you just need to tweak the code. Listen to your customers and stop trying to guide our lives because you think you know best.

You do not. And it will cost you in your wallets if you carry on like this.