Bluetooth Interference - Apple Watch and iPhone 6

I can confirm what Matthew Carter wrote. There is definitely no change in the interference problems at all. Last night I thought there was because I didn't have a single interference in about 30 minutes (my way home from work). But this morning (when driving to work), playback got jerky after approx. 1 min playing time.

So yes - let's hope that Apple will fix this in a later update. Until then, flight mode is your only friend.

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I managed to fix my Apple Watch/iphone6/bluetooth car problems. Someone on here advised this and it solved everything. On UConnect I unpaired my iPhone 6 and on phone I deleted UConnect device. I then powered off/powered on phone and repaired the two. I now have full functionality both with calls and playing music through watch.

I am new to apple watch.

I paired my watch to my BT headset so I could listen without my phone. This worked for me...

However while streaming from my TV to the BT headset, the audio cut out whenever I turned my wrist, rater like I was looking at the time.

I confirmed this correlation by unpairing the watch.

BUT I should not have to unpair it.

Is there some BT handshaking that happens when it thinks I'm looking at the watch that messes up the audio stream?

Should I need to pair and unpair the watch.

What am I missing.

Barry

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.

No issues here, several watches, keyboards and trackpads here, but also a few BT speakers jotted around the place. I suspect it to be something specific to the OP and probably not suitable for feedback.

I am having a similar problem as RickH except my issue is with a house phone. I use an AT&T detec6 house phone with wireless handsets in every room. The AT&T has a great Bluetooth feature that allows you to connect up to two iPhones so that if either my land line or one of the iPhones has an incoming call then you can answer the call from any wireless handset as long as your phone is within the Bluetooth distance requirement from the base station. It also allows you to use a handset to call out on your iPhone line. This is good for people withou a land line.

Here is the issue. When the Apple Watch is paired with the iPhone at the same time as the AT&T base station, the Apple Watch will not answer the incoming iPhone call. I can answer on the iPhone but not the watch. Interestingly though is that I can start an outgoing call with the watch, just not receive. If I remove the bluetooth pairing from the AT&T base station, then the Apple watch will answer and works fine.

i Hope this was just an oversight by Apple. We should have the option to connect to any attached voice enabled device paired with the iPhone. Wheat her it is your automobiles Bluetooth hands free device, a Bluetooth house phone or a Bluetooth headset. Which I don't have one to try. They should all be available as an option depending on your situation.

floyd0 wrote:

Here is the issue. When the Apple Watch is paired with the iPhone at the same time as the AT&T base station, the Apple Watch will not answer the incoming iPhone call. I can answer on the iPhone but not the watch. Interestingly though is that I can start an outgoing call with the watch, just not receive. If I remove the bluetooth pairing from the AT&T base station, then the Apple watch will answer and works fine.``

I suspect your problem may actually be different than the OP's. You may be running into competing BT profiles. Both devices may be trying to use the same BT profile on the watch, which wouldn't work.

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.

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.

You can google BT problems on iOS 3.0 and find lots of complaints. There don't seem to be a lot more than any other previous versions. If it works in one model BMW and not in another that would place the problem with BMW, not with Apple.

Yeah except you obviously didn't read what I wrote. There are problems with dozens of auto manufacturers, like Mathew Carter above (to whose post I replied and which you obviously didn't read either) whose problem is with a Honda fit. Given the amount of time it takes you to respond, it's obvious that you are a paid Apple troll here to deny, deny, deny that Apple has any issues with it's products. You might want to troll someone else though. You won't win and you'll just draw more attention that Apple doesn't want.

Yes, if you don't have a cogent argument the best thing to do is start name calling, that alway makes you look like the winner. Or like a moron.

Yes, I understand that people have issues with various cars. And if you Google it people have issues with cars going back to iOS 3.0. In some cases it was all cars and an update was issued. This is rare. In most other cases it was a combination of issues between the device, the car, other devices, interference, etc. If there was a system wide bug with BT on the iPhone 6 then it would NOT work with any cars period. There would be thousands upon thousands of posts here and articles in every newspaper that the iPhone 6 does not work with cars.

Apple adheres to all current BT standards as does the manufacturer of the chipset maker that they buy from (Apple doesn't make BT radios). If you and others have a problem it is best to send feedback or call AppleCare so they can work on the issue. If it was a system bug or they were not adhering to BT standards it would not work in the cars I have listed.

seminolefans wrote:

Contrary to your pathetic attempt at invoking the common defense of ad hominem attack, I actually didn't call you names at all. Actually I made an observation about your behavior (a behavior which is called trolling) -- and given that you trolled another user on this thread, and you're tolling me now, it's a correct observation supported by the evidence.

"Trolling" does not mean what you appear to think it does. It does not mean saying things that other people will disagree with or be offended by or not like. It means saying things solely for the purpose of annoying or angering people. Neither you nor anyone else in the world has the right to never be disagreed with, never be offended by something someone else says.

You also apparently failed to understand deggie's argument. He never said that, because the phone works with his car, it will work with all cars by that maker. That was your inference. We call that a "straw man". If you're going to try to refute his arguments, at least get them right.

No, you haven't done anything to my argument. YOUR argument is there is a bug in Apple's BT implementation on the iPhone 6. But if that were true it would affect EVERY iPhone 6. And if you can keep up I said I had used mine on a Acura (both an MDX and an RDX), a Ford F150 and a BMW X3. And since you last said I exhibited trollish behavior (wouldn't this be the same as calling me a troll...maybe not at FSU) I also tried it on my neighbors Honda Accord. Worked on it also.

I am not trolling here I am just pointing out there is no global bug that causes the iPhone 6 to properly work on BT or with the Apple Watch. What I have been saying is it is a much more complex issue involving a lot of variables and there is no magic bullet, or line of code, that anyone can make that will solve all issues. Which is why I encourage people to send Apple feedback with as much detail as possible, call AppleCare or make a Genius Bar appointment at their nearest Apple Store so more data points can be collected.

I would hardly call that trolling.

And yes in every BT device I have used or tested on my iPhone it has performed to specifications. If it didn't it wouldn't be just the iPhone 6 having problems.

But, speaking of that, you can also do a Google search and find all manner of different phones reporting Bluetooth issues as well as WiFi issues. And you said you were able to do a Google search but you can even just search the ASC and find BT and WiFi issues on past versions and models.