Connect Bluetooth headset to watch & iPhone simultaneously?

The simple solution is to use the button on your bluetooth headset device to answer the call. Answering calls on the watch is more just to impress your nearby friends; not really practically useful as there is a delay and the volume in minimal.

I feel the taps that someone is calling, phone in my pocket on vibrate, look at my wrist and see who it is, then answer with my BT headset. Boom done.

i don't about other iPhones but my iPhone 6plus is capable of keeping my watch connected while I have a Bluetooth headset paired with my phone! This way I can play a music from my iPhone and control it from my watch and even answer calls on my headset! I found it easier this way that pairing the headset directly with my watch witch is useless unless you have musics stored on your watch!

On the watch where the call rings, if you slide up it gives you an option to "answer on my iphone". Wouldn't the most elegant solution just be to pair the bluetooth with the iPhone so that any call answered on the watch through iPhone goes to the bluetooth headset when you choose "answer on my iphone"?

Hi

Since your question was posted, Apple has released various products that connect to both Apple Watch and iPhone at the same time, with sound switching automatically between them as required:

AirPods:

• Buy AirPods - Apple (US, for example)
• Use your AirPods - Apple Support

BeatsX Earphones:

• Buy BeatsX In-Ear Headphones - Apple

Powerbeats3 Wireless Earphones:

• Powerbeats3 Wireless Earphones - Neighborhood Collection - Brick Red - Apple

Beats Studio3 Wireless Over-Ear Headphones:

• Beats Studio3 Wireless Over-Ear Headphones - Shadow Grey - Apple

Beats Solo3 Wireless On-Ear Headphones:

• Beats Solo3 Wireless On-Ear Headphones - Neighborhood Collection - Break Blue - AppleBB

crashCart wrote:

This is a great question. I have an AppleWatch S2 and am wasting money buying BT devices that it won't sync with. I mean literally I follow these steps with NO resolution

1. Put Headphones in pair mode

2. Go to setting on watch and select Bluetooth and I see the headphones.

3. I tap pair ...

4. Cycling dots to show processing

5. Please be sure to turn Bluetooth device on and put in in pair mode

6. Waste hours reading threads that are filled with people who don't know the answer to the question telling me not to use the device as intended.

I want to use my watch during workouts where I don't have my phone with me. Fewer distractions. This is how it was intended to work. I have used BT 3.0 to BT 4.1 with NO success.

I'm not entirely clear why your responding to me. I think you'd get more assistance if you started your own thread as your problem is not the same as the subject of this thread which is how to pair a BT headset to an Apple Watch and an iPhone at the same time. That question has been answered: you can't. It sounds as if you're having trouble pairing a headset to your Apple Watch.

I'd suggest you review this support article:

Use Bluetooth accessories with your Apple Watch - Apple Support

If that doesn't help, start your own thread with subject line that describes your problem.

Don't answer the call using the watch. Instead push the button on the headset. Just about all headsets work this way. Many even accept voice commands. My Q3, for example I can just say "answer".

Some BT headsets can pair to more than one device. My BlueAnt Q3 can. I have paired it to two phones at the same time. I've never tried pairing it to both the watch and the phone as I have no music on my watch.

I used a beats blue tooth headset and operated it with my watch while I played music (nice combo!). I had the problem you described when I had a wired headset plugged into my phone and I answered with my watch. I then had the call on my watch speaker instead of my headset. I hadn't figured out either yet and an answer to your question would help me too.

I really hope Apple updates the firmware to enable using 2 at the same time (if that is indeed what the solution is). It's easy to answer calls but initiating a call via the Watch would be handy. I suppose the (hopefully temporary) work-around is to use the headphone's mic and command Siri to place the call.

What you are asking is technologically impossible. A Bluetooth hands-free device can only connect to one audio source at a time. It's a limitation of the Bluetooth standard and the way it is implemented.

Check your headset's capabilities. My Q3 can make calls by voice command, so I don't need to touch my watch or my phone to make or receive calls. And I generally don't. I just double-press the phone's button, which wakes Siri, and say "Call John Doe" - as long as the name is in my contacts. And if it isn't I can say "dial 123-456-7890"