iPhone SE Bluetooth issues

As i said, the quality varies between 40 an 80 percent depending on the caller, so someone could think, it is solved or got better if he talks first with a 80% caller.

Now i use a 5S with 9.3.1 and everything is 100% fine like the years before with every caller.

It is not about special cars, its about incoming BT voice call quality caused by the iphone SE.

If there is someone with perfectly working BT, then i think it is a hardware problem.

I called Apple Support in The Netherlands. They ensured me Apple is working on a software fix. Fingers crossed. Problem occurs with 64 Gb SE in a Peugeot 308 car built in 2015. It's impossible to hear the caller. Only if they talk very slow and soft it's not distorted. No bluetooth problem with previous 4s of 6s.

Why oh why Apple do you not publish a statement on your position with this issue??? If it's a bug.... please "man up" / "grow a pair" - and let us know. We are all human and accept that these things happen...

Please let us (new SE customers) and other (potential?) customers know what we should do, and also your staff working in Apple stores/genius bars etc...

I really like the SE phone but I will be forced to return this back to the retailer and re-use my iPhone 4 which works faultlessly with Bluetooth and is safe to use in my car. I have written an honest review on a major UK retailer's website on the iPhone SE explaining this situation, which I know is being read by visitors and influencing their buying decisions.

Ordered the iphone SE in space grey direct from apple as not available in store, I was really looking forward to a new phone as my 4s is 5 years old and battery life is not so good.

The SE arrived 3 days ago after it's tour of the world from China, UPS kept me well informed of it's progress.

Set up was very easy backing up from my MAC but the 1st phone call from my car via Bluetooth was not good, sound quality poor and had to ask the person to repeat the words quite often, very off putting. I tried the SE via my daughters and my wife's cars and still poor quality sound although the persons who I was talking too thought sound OK.

Spoke to apple tech person who he had not heard of this problem, they put me through to sales support and again they had not heard of this problem.

Apart from this problem phone is great.

Decide to return phone to apple for a full refund, I will re-order in a couple of months when hopefully these initial design faults have been resolved.It's back to the 4s for now.

My advice, don't become a guinea pig, apple will solve quicker if phones are returned.

What perhaps annoys me the most of all, is that the Apple staff is clearly lying about it. "Never heard of that issue". Really? 31 pages on this forum, and for each of us reporting issues here, there is probably 1000 more that doesn't report their problems on this site.

I would have had much more respect for Apple if they said "Yes, we know about the problem, and no we don't have a fix at this time". That would be fair and honest.

Isn't wierd that not a single review has mentioned these problems with the Bluetooth calls?

Apple knows and they don´t admit because it is hardware related. If they admit they have to change every SE at once, and not only the SE owners who are complaining. And of course that is for them the worst case. My guess.

If this is not fixed soon anyone know an attorney who is an technical engineer? I smell a class action. This mobile Bluetooth not working is a driving safety issue. I was not able to use buyers remorse as my phone was exchanged by Apple twice. My only workaround is using a platonic headset.

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Finally for it to connect to my car and several attempts/manipulations. I reset the network settings then I turned off BT and let the car search for a device. After it did not find anything I turned BT back on turned on my cellular data roaming. Then it located the device with no problem. Very strange.

I Too have entered into this nightmare. tried to do a chat today with online support, but gave up after an hour of not being able to connect with any one. Decided to stop by the Apple flagship store in University Ave in Palo Alto. Figured if anyone could help me out, they could. But no one there seemed to have an inkling of the problem and the Genius (using that term loosely) decided he needed to reboot my phone . Of course he didn't bother to listen to my description if my problem, just wanted to make sure it had the latest software upgrade on it. Of course it did Before he started. When he finally listed to me describe the problem, he felt sure it was a hardware problem, this after he tried to convince me it was a software problem with the vehicles. I again politely explained that the blue tooth in the 4 cars I tried work fine with various iPhone 6's, and the SE was the only one that had the voice reception problem. So a this point he was convinced it was a hardware problem. I even showed him these posts, which he didn't really want to acknowledge. so his solution was for me to wait an hour and a half to sit with another tech to check out the phone. Obviously they don't have a clue, and it would have been so much easier if he would have just acknowledged the problem existed and let me know what my options were. But that didn't happen. I finally gave up, deciding to tackle the problem another day. I also loved one of his comments that new products from Apple typically have problems that are resolved after the fact.

IT IS TRUELY AMAZING THAT THEY TOOK ONLY 10-15 MINUTES TO TAKE MY $600 FOR THE PHONE, AND THEN NEED A COUPLE OF HOURS OF MY TIME TO MAYBE FIX A PROBLEM. CAN YOU IMAGINE AN AUTOMAKER SHIPPING A CAR WITH A DEFECTIVE PART? I THINK THEY WOULD BE DOING EVERY THING IN THEIR POWER TO NOTIFY US OF THE PROBLEM AND FIX IT.

I thought i saw comments related to public beta ios fixing the issue... where did they go?

I'm not a developer or tech guy. Just a customer who is frustrated by this event. There are now several threads in the community about this problem. Some are reporting luck with the software update. Others are not. I haven't tried this fix yet myself, but the ONLY consistent fix I've read about is resetting the network. Note, it will reset your wi-fi too. Simpply reconnect.

Settings-General-Reset (scroll to bottom of general)-Reset Network Settings.

Unpair phone with car. Repair it.

If you try this, please post results. I already did it but haven't been able to test a call in my car.

More people seem to be reporting a fix with this method than any other. I also think there are some on here doing nothing other than piling on Apple. I like their products and so long as they figure this out, without costing me, I'm good.

Humm, funny how all those posts got removed. Yesterday we were at page 31. Today we have fallen back to page 30...

I Think they were removed because they were untrue. The software fix 9.3.2 wasn't fixing anything and those who posted were claiming it did. A couple posts also said it was free to be a developer. That's not true either.

Why did my posts get deleted