Connect Bluetooth headset to watch & iPhone simultaneously?

Thank you!!! I kept reading "they need to release a firmware update so it can handle multiple bluetooth connections at once." Never gonna happen unless that "firmware update" magically upgrades the hardware, too.

That being said, Bluetooth needs an overhaul. It's just silly that we have to find all these workarounds to use it with our devices.

If I'm following you correctly, I believe you can do this - Open settings, then General, then Accessibility. The first 2 sections are labeled "Vision", The next 2 sections are "Interaction". In the second section of Interaction, the 4th item is "Call Audio Routing". Instead of "Automatic", select "Bluetooth Headset" and I believe this should route your calls in the way you're describing - of course, if the bluetooth headset is not turned on or is out of range, then you'll still have the issue you are describing, but it sounds as though you have your headset constantly available, and that it is your preferred method of taking calls. If I understand Call Audio Routing correctly, it sounds as though the call would show on your watch, as you described (I don't have one, so I've not seen this in person), but when you swipe up to send the call to the phone, this feature would kick in and route the call audio to the headset. I'm not an expert, nor a technician, but have been reading up on everything and trying to learn and understand it, so if i'm wrong, please accept my apologies, but if I'm right, I hope this helps you out a bit.

Lawrence,

Clearly, you are not understanding the issue.

Sure pressing the call receive button on the headphone is an obvious 'solution'. It is, however, actually pretty inefficient as a user.

First, look at the watch to see who is calling, then reach for the call receive button, which in my experience, is usually stuck in the folds of your shirt collar. If all other audio interface with the bluetooth headphones are via the phone (press play for music, etc), then receiving a phone call should also be through the phone, and, hence, through the bluetooth headphones.

This should not be rocket science and seems like a pretty simple concept. I believe that we all GET that it isn't working and a work around is to press the call answer button on the headphones (duh). We just cannot believe that we have not missed something in such an obvious miss.

PowerBeats2 headset

Apple Watch Sport

iPhone 6Plus

iOS 9.3.1

cgapperi wrote:

First, look at the watch to see who is calling, then reach for the call receive button, which in my experience, is usually stuck in the folds of your shirt collar.

You clearly have the wrong BT headset. My Blue Ant Q3 will announce caller ID and the call receive button is on the headset which is stuck in my ear. Unless my ear somehow gets stuck in my shirt collar, the call answer button is always relatively accessible. I'm not trying to push that particular headset. I'm sure there are others.

I'm with you on this one. When I first bought my watch, I made the same question and complaint. I have the LG tone headset. I have to switch to the phone and it is a pain in my butt. haha. It's not a huge deal but when I walk away from my phone and I have my headset on and the phone rings, I want to answer it. I have to go back and find my phone in the house or where ever I am and get it. It just *****.

Thanks to all who are trying to help. Here is a variation on the same problem.

I'm driving my car with a Bluetooth earpiece and wearing my watch.

I tell my watch "Hey Siri, call my wife"

The watch becomes the speaker, but I can't hear because of the engine noise.

How do I listen through my earpiece when I can't fiddle with the phone?

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.

Meanwhile, my phone is autoloading music taking up storage that it will NEVER play at this rate.

So if anyone knows what they are talking about, in regard to syncing please answer the question people who want to tell me I'm doing it wrong, go away and stop trolling.

Sorry about that Iris, it was intended as a general reply.

This Bluetooth issue has been frustrating me, and finding 4 pages of people telling you to not use your watch the way you would like to, or more to the point just an answer to your question about how to get a proper pairing.

crashCart wrote:

Sorry about that Iris, it was intended as a general reply.

This Bluetooth issue has been frustrating me, and finding 4 pages of people telling you to not use your watch the way you would like to, or more to the point just an answer to your question about how to get a proper pairing.

Again, this thread wasn't about how to simply pair a headset with your watch. It was about how to pair one with both devices. And that can't be done.

The iris is one of my favorite flowers so, it's all good.

Well I got mine connected to both so *shrug* it took resetting my watch and restoring it. Now my earbuds are paired with Watch and iPhone.

So there's that, which is nice.

Sorry I offended you by being frustrated by people just saying it can't be done or do something else.

Have a great one!

crashCart wrote:

Sorry I offended you by being frustrated by people just saying it can't be done or do something else.

I'm not sure why you think I'm offended. Disagreeing with someone does not imply offense, merely disagreement.

I'm not. Have a nice day yourself.

I haven't used the BlueAnt recently. I'll have to dig it up and check.

Why don't you just connect it to the phone? I do that, and have no problems using the headset with the iPhone while the watch is connected.

Good to know, thanks. I guess all I really need is for the watch to instruct the phone to make a call. Hopefully that wouldn't be impossible.