How do you unpair a headset without simply forgetting the device?

I normally keep my headset paired with my iPhone but the other day, I finally loaded some music on the watch and wanted to listen from the watch. After placing my headset into Pairing mode, it paired and worked great. Later that day, I wanted to use the same headset with my iPhone. Since the headset can only be paired to one device at a time, is that an easier way to unpair the headset other than going into the Bluetooth settings and clicking on the headset and telling the watch to forget the device? When you do this, you need to re-pair the headset every time. I have tried placing the phone in Airplane mode to drop the pairing but that does not seem to do the trick. So far, I can either 1) turn off the watch and pair with the phone, or 2) go into bluetooth and forget the pairing and redo later.


Anyone have any better suggestions?

Posted on Mar 31, 2016 3:13 PM

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Mar 31, 2016 4:09 PM in response to Jashinski

Jashinski wrote:


I normally keep my headset paired with my iPhone but the other day, I finally loaded some music on the watch and wanted to listen from the watch. After placing my headset into Pairing mode, it paired and worked great. Later that day, I wanted to use the same headset with my iPhone. Since the headset can only be paired to one device at a time, is that an easier way to unpair the headset other than going into the Bluetooth settings and clicking on the headset and telling the watch to forget the device? When you do this, you need to re-pair the headset every time. I have tried placing the phone in Airplane mode to drop the pairing but that does not seem to do the trick. So far, I can either 1) turn off the watch and pair with the phone, or 2) go into bluetooth and forget the pairing and redo later.


Anyone have any better suggestions?

It can only be connected to one device at a time. You should be able to keep it paired to both. I do that with speakers all the time. They're paired to my iPhone, iPad and Mac. And probably a couple of my housemates' phones. They can only play music from one device at a time but they remain paired to all of them.

Apr 1, 2016 8:46 AM in response to IdrisSeabright

Thanks Meg. That is what I have been trying to do but cannot. It is almost like the watch will not "let go" of the headphones without turning off the watch or forgetting it was paired. I have tried turning the headphones off then on again but they seem to remember the last item they were paired to so they re-attach to the watch and when I go into my iPhone and press connect, I get an error.


It may be an issue with how the headphones work as opposed to the watch but I wanted to check anyway.


Thanks

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