Bluetooth Interference - Apple Watch and iPhone 6

I am having a similar problem. I received my Apple watch yesterday and within 10 minutes of opening and syncing had to take a drive. I listen to podcasts almost exclusively in my car and immediately notice that every 5-10 seconds the audio began cutting out in the podcast for just a fraction of a second in my 2014 Toyota Highlander streamed from my iPhone 6 Plus.. It has been doing that all weekend.... Hoping there is actually a fix for it capable of being patched and not a hardware issue.

So if two devices of the same BT profile are connected then you are saying there is a conflict and only one device will work? Is there a way to prioritize the devices so that one will connect and disregard the other? How can I determine what profile the watch is using? All I found was this iPhone supported profile linkiOS: Supported Bluetooth profiles - Apple Support.

I Am also having these issues. My Motorola Bluetooth headset and Bluetooth beats headphones cut out now that I've got the apple watch. Figured I'd post here as well.

I'm having this issue too, with a Plantronics bluetooth headset. Audio cuts out or signal is lost all together when using it with my iPhone or Mac while Apple Watch is nearby. I have never had issues with it in the past and the audio comes back when I turn off the apple watch OR switch to the internal speaker on my phone/mac. I called applecare and they are having an engineer look into the case. Will post an update when I hear back. Would encourage others to do the same if you're having bluetooth issues so Apple looks into it.

Update, I finally made an appointment at the Apple Store. We reset the watch to factory and unpaired all devices. We then added the watch back and then added the bluetooth devices afterwards. This seemed to fix it for about a week. Had the issue pop up again so I went back. This time it was suggested that I perform a restore on the phone. This is a very labor intensive process as you guys know, but I am at my wits end. Will report back.

I too am experiencing a problem in which my mouse will not connect (or remain connected) to my Macbook Air when the Apple Watch is active. Putting the watch into Airplane mode immediately makes the mouse workable. I have not had any issues with my iPhone 6, watch and bluetooth in my car. These have worked flawlessly.

I've been in touch with applecare about my bluetooth issues (causing interference with my Plantronics Legend headset and Jaybird Bluebuds X headphones). They forwarded my case to the product engineering team who said they will investigate and release a bluetooth patch as part of the next apple watch software update. So keep your eyes out for an update which hopefully will fix this!

They told me it could be about a month before the 1.0.3 release.

Well sadly I am of no help. It turned out to be a hardware issue with the iPhone and they replaced it. Good luck to all of you.

Sadly running the latest Apple Watch 1.0.1 software, I get tremendous interference with other devices.

Both other bluetooth devices that connect to the same phone, and even things like PS3 hand controllers are unusable unless my Apple Watch is in flight mode.

Audio calls in the car with bluetooth, work and home systems all suffer in the same way.

Very frustrating, and hoping Apple will put a fix in for this soon.

I use an apple watch, and an iPhone 6 plus with my new 2015 Honda Fit. Bluetooth audio between the iPhone and the car worked perfectly, until I purchased an apple watch. Now the audio signal between my phone and my car breaks up at random intervals. It continues to work, but the audio will occasionally be disrupted by static. When I turn the watch off, the problem goes away..

My wife just encountered this problem with her new Apple Watch. She got it less than 24 hours ago and had been enjoying it all morning and into the afternoon. Then she turned to pairing a new set of Bluetooth 4.0 headphones with her iPhone 6 Plus - with the intention of using them when she's listening to her music library (or other features) on Apple music. She was excited about the fact that she would be able to control Music with the Watch, rather than digging her phone out of her purse. To her significant dismay, within 60 seconds of the phone's successful pairing with headphones, the phone disconnected the watch and refused to recognize It again. We finally had to unpair the watch from the phone, which took the phone almost 20 minutes, and do a lengthy process (over an hour) of trying to restore the pairing and recover the many ways in which she had already personalized the watch (which were all gone). Eventually the watch offered us the option to try to rescue all her changes by doing a "Restore from Backup," accompanied by the name my wife had given the phone, and we let it go to work. Ten minutes later, the phone and the fully recovered watch were successfully paired - and they worked fine with the new headphones. However, for about 15 minutes after she turned off the music and the headphones, the Bluetooth connection between the phone and watch cycled every 2-3 seconds between "Connected" and "Not connected" on the phone's Bluetooth Settings screen. There was no apparent effect of this cycling on the watch - and for the last half hour the link has stayed stable at "Connected." She will call Customer Support about this on Monday, but it seems like it's the same problem y'all are having. Until a patch or the upgrade to Watch OS 2.0 arrives this fall, she plans to set her watch into "Airplane Mode" whenever the possibility of Bluetooth conflicts seems likely. She really does NOT want to have to do a full "Restore from Backup" every day (or even more often). THIS ISSUE REALLY NEEDS TO BE ADDRESSED IN TIMELY FASHION BY APPLE!!!

Yes, your yelling in capital letters at other users will really get something done.

I don't believe she does have the same problem that is being discussed here. What model BT headphones is she using? I use 3 different models with my iPhone 6 plus while it is connected to my Watch and have not experienced the same problem. This would indicate it is not a global bug that Apple can make a change of code and "fix" it. Send her information to feedback and/or have her provide all details when she calls AppleCare.

Same exact thing here with my BMW X5. With a google search I see that we're not the only one's with BT problems and iOS 8.x, Apple Watch and Car BT systems. And from this thread it seems it's not limited to cars but to many BT devices. Looks like Apple has a serious bug in it's iOS/Apple Watch BT code which is interfering with other devices. In my case, the only fix in my car is to turn off the Apple Watch -- which means this Apple Watch is likely going back to the Apple Store.

Not seeing any problems with my BMW X3 and my iPhone and Apple Watch.

All depends on the version of software and hardware in your particular model of BMW (same for other auto manufacturers)-- for which there are hundreds of possibilities. And the same goes for the thousands of BT products. BT has standards and it's likely that either Apple pushed beyond them

somewhere with the Apple Watch -- or they have a significant code bug. Just google bluetooth issues and ios 8 to discover the legions of people who've had BT problems since ios 8.2 (the version which added the Apple Watch). Consumers often don't realize what is causing their connectivity problems, so it doesn't surprise me in the least that people are reporting issues in a variety of seemingly disconnected areas. And given all of the reports of problems with other auto manufacturer's BT systems and the countless third party BT hardware products (mice, keyboards, headphones, etc) it's likely that each product manufacturer is getting many reports about their products -- thereby escaping Apple's purview.

Apple deifnitely has a big problem with this, and since ios 8.2 they haven't addresssed it. I was hoping ios 9 might solve it, but I can't find out because I had to scrap ios 9 after the latest update because as countless beta testers learned it instantly disabled LTE and vis voicemail on T-Mobile/MetroPCS phones.