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Bluetooth Interference - Apple Watch and iPhone 6

I'm not sure which one could be the culprit, but I since I introduced the Apple Watch to my work environment, my Apple Bluetooth Mouse and when I'm playing music from my iPhone to my bluetooth sound bar is experiencing interference.

The mouse will go sluggish. Almost as if it isn't communicating correctly with my computer and stutter as I move it.

When I'm playing music via Bluetooth, the music will constantly cut out. This is not a problem I had before. It happens when I'm streaming from either my MacBook Pro or my iPhone to my bluetooth speakers.

And when I'm using my Jaybird Bluetooth headset, they are starting to cut out also. They will stop playing music altogether. I have to press a button to reconnect until it disconnects again.

I think there is some correlation between these issues and my Apple Watch / iPhone connectivity.

Watch Sport 42mm, iOS 8.3

Posted on May 2, 2015 10:54 AM

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gerofromronnenberg

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Posted on Oct 28, 2015 5:21 AM

...me too - I have three Bluetooth connections in total when sitting in my car. Two go to the Car Entertainment System (Kenwood DNX4280BT) for phone and audio streaming, another one serves the Apple Watch. I'm on iOS 9.1, by the way. And I have clearly identified the Apple Watch BT connection as the one that's interfering with the other two. Mostly, I have a very rough phone connection and bad audio streaming, both with interruptions, crackling etc. then.

The workaround that I momentarily use before entering my car is to switch Flight Mode on and then again off on my iPhone which leaves the Watch in Flight mode so that the Watch's BT connection stays temporarily disabled. After a little while, when the phone and audio streaming BT connections are safely established, I switch the Watch's Flight Mode off and let it establish its BT connection to the iPhone. Then, everything works fine, but obviously it's really a hassle to go through this procedure every time I enter my car, especially when just stopping for some gas or similar.

It seems to be some sort of "timing" problem. Like I said, after the phone and audio connections are established, I can enable the Watch's BT connection safely but not vice versa.

Hope this will be fixed anytime soon, but somehow I have little hope for that...

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Apr 3, 2016 11:56 PM in response to Jonathan UK

Thanks,

I just sent them a feature suggestion to allow the watch to select a WiFi network separately from the phone, but having never sent a suggestion I'm not sure of the likelihood of it actually ever happening. But I live in hope.

May 3, 2016 8:53 PM in response to stevenish

My new watch causes my wireless mouse to go bonkers when I am working on my desktop all day long. Was excited about the new watch, but now

have buyer's remorse. Never anticipated this and should have researched more. Only fix may be to buy a non wireless mouse which is extra bucks to accommodate the watch; I hate desk cords. The watch is parked on its charger when I'm on the desktop.

Jun 1, 2016 5:33 AM in response to necronym

Hi everybody,

has anyone except me noticed any improvement to the Bluetooth interference issue when using an Apple Watch? I have the impression that things started to get better now with the latest couple if iOS versions... I haven't experienced any distortions or other jammings lately when listening to bluetooth playbacks from my iPhone 6s or during phone calls... you guys?

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kthersh

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Oct 3, 2016 12:48 PM in response to stevenish

I am running into this a lot lately, primarily when I get into my car, which has handsfree via bluetooth, and my apple watch loses connectivity. I'm on Watch OS 3.0 and iOS 10.0.2 on an iPhone 6 Plus.

Oct 4, 2016 1:07 AM in response to kthersh

Hi there,

haven't had any problems anymore with the recent iOS versions on my iPhone 6s and my Apple Watch on watchOS 3, but now, with my brand new iPhone 7 on the latest iOS, things got worse again. BT connection between my entertainment system (Kenwood DNX4280BT) and my iPhone 7 drops at least once after entering my car, mostly after a couple of minutes. This never happened with my iPhone 6s....

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Oct 23, 2016 10:27 AM in response to stevenish

I have a strange issue with my car bluetooth ever since I got my iwatch:

Concerned device, iphone 5s, iwatch and 2010 VW Jetta.

When starting car, everything pairs just fine, iwatch with iphone and iphone with car. This is where it gets tricky:

While driving and listening to music via iphone and trying to make a phone call, music is silenced and phone call goes through, if ever the other person does not answer the call, I hang up and the music kicks right in. But if the person answers the phone call, when I eventually hang up afterwards, my iphone disconnects from my car bluetooth and the music does not resume. Same issue applies when I receive a call, after hanging up iphone disconnects from car bluetooth.

I will do further troubleshooting and will let you know the results since it could be the ios 10 as well.

stevenish Author

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May 2, 2015 12:01 PM in response to nick101

It has been sent 🙂

Lungpai

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May 14, 2015 9:26 PM in response to stevenish

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.

deggie

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Jul 29, 2015 3:16 PM in response to seminolefans

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

Jul 29, 2015 5:41 PM in response to IdrisSeabright

Okay since you didn't read his reply, I'll just quote him: "If it works in one model BMW and not in another that would place the problem with BMW, not with Apple." Enough said.

deggie

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Jul 29, 2015 6:01 PM in response to seminolefans

Are you saying your BMW system uses BT 1, 3 and 4 at the same time?

Jul 29, 2015 6:43 PM in response to seminolefans

seminolefans wrote:

APPLE IS THE COMMON DENOMINATOR.

BlueTooth itself is also a "common denominator".

Please don't shout.

deggie

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Jul 29, 2015 7:05 PM in response to seminolefans

No, you didn't answer because by now you have determined that there is not device that would be running a mixture of 1.0, 3.0 and 4.0, it makes no sense.

Sep 28, 2015 9:22 AM in response to rickh710

I am having the exact same problem with my car/iphone/iwatch

Jan 13, 2016 1:49 AM in response to dino_russ

...ok, so it's been a while, happy new year to everybody....

Do we have any new insights to our problem...? It still bugs me A LOT....

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