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Connect Bluetooth headset to watch & iPhone simultaneously?

Is this true or is there a way to connect a Bluetooth device to the Apple Watch and iPhone Simultaneously?

To my understanding:

Currently the apple watch can not stream phone conversations directly to Bluetooth. And the Speakers are literally worthless under normal background sounds.

If you connect a Bluetooth headset to the apple watch, currently it can only play music (Force touch to change source) stored on the Watch internal memory. If you get a phone call and you answer it on the apple watch it will only play on the watch speakers (which is impossible to hear in with background noise) and the only way to get it to play on your Bluetooth headset is by pulling out your phone and going to settings > Bluetooth and selecting the device and wait about 3 seconds for it to automatically disconnect from watch and connect to the phone.

SO, If I want to use my Bluetooth headset to have a phone conversation I have to pull out my iPhone every time to either answer the call or manually switch the headset to the iPhone (if I was currently connected to the apple watch) which ruins the point of the Apple Watch.

Is this true? is there a work around? if not how do you manage to get around this flaw?

Apple Watch, watchOS 1.0.1

Posted on Jun 25, 2015 3:53 PM

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Lola5881

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Posted on Jul 1, 2015 6:42 AM

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"?

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cgapperi

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May 13, 2016 10:15 AM in response to Lawrence Finch

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

deggie

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May 13, 2016 11:44 AM in response to cgapperi

Who is "we"?

The issue is the Bluetooth standard, which Apple does not control, and BT technology.

May 13, 2016 4:51 PM in response to cgapperi

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.

May 26, 2016 12:01 PM in response to 0itouch_man0

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 *****.