Q: iPhone SE Bluetooth issues

I got my SE phone yesterday and immediately discovered that audio is broken up when I use my AYL bluetooth headphones -- which worked beautifully with my old iphone 5. From what I see online, it's not the fault of the headphones. Can anybody tell me if Apple is on to this? How do I keep track of what's happening?

ATTENTION ALL: There is NO fix. I've read these pages with many people on here discussing their experiences and trying everything under sun. We are all in a holding pattern until Apple figures it out. Yesterday a 2nd patch was released to "Developers" with no solution identified. The phone has terrible audio when used as Bluetooth in ANY vehicle. Is it software or hardware? We don't know. It doesn't make sense that the latest 9.3.1 works fine on other Apple products, but this SE iphone it doesn't. I'd tend to think if it were software, all their products would experience the same thing. This is isolated to the iphone SE. We've tried everything from restores, returns, updates, network settings, even removing cases on the phones. None of it works.

If you can....take yours back NOW and cut your losses. Some of us are stuck. Apple wants ME to pay another $150 to get my iphone 6 back. For $300 I get to learn this product is a DUD. No thanks. I'm going to keep mine for now. Maybe something comes out. Maybe something doesn't. I don't use BT enough to really get angry. If it doesn't get fixed, this will be my last ever Iphone. I will move to Samsung or some other product.

Those new to this thread.....don't even waste your time searching for solutions. There are none. 29+ pages of things people have tried with no success.

As previously stated, my IPhone 64GB SE/TMobile USA pairs perfectly, with my 2015 Acura SH-AWD/TLX/Tech; except for ONE thing. I CANNOT respond to visible/Nav. screen text messages; receiving is fine; messaging on the phone itself is great

Call quality through Bluetooth, is the best I've heard from any phone

Must be a software glitch

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Hi MotleyDiver

If you take the time to read the 29 pages, you'll find that for a few people, me included, the suggested fixes have worked.

If I'm not wrong, at least four people here have reported their SE works with Bluetooth audio.

And of course when you talk about that if it was a software issue all devices with 9.3.1 should have the problem, you're wrong. Every OS (be it iOS, MacOS...) has different internal "pieces" of software which are hardware dependent. The bluetooth software driver can be different in the OS for different chip makers, for example.

We even have a report in this thread of a guy with an iPhone 6 (not an SE) that got Bluetooth broken after upgrading to iOS 9.3.1.

So I don't know how you can assure there is no fix, and how you can assure it's not fixable by a software upgrade.

But anycase, I think that Apple should aknowledge the issue and say publically that they're working on it.

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It's not just cars.  Bluetooth headphones including my AYL bluetooth headphones which worked just fine with my iphone 5

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I am having the problem with 9.3. I don't yet have 9.3.1 installed. For some reason the phone won't install it.

elzale,

Good for you. You're one of the 4 lucky ones. Vast majority are still experiencing problems.

Yepp, and I'm following the thread just to help.

I wonder if everyone has really tried the suggested fixes or if they just read that the fixes don't work for others and presume they won't work for them.

I was skeptical on resetting the network settings (totally skeptical) and it worked for me.

This guy tried my suggestion on LTE and it worked for him:

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And again, I blame Apple for being silent...

Dont do **** just take it back for your money back, if you bought a new car and the radio didnt work what would u do?  Contact the manufacture and try to fix it yourself or take it back and get ur money back,  People they make more then one model, don't give in if your not satisfied. This forum aint going to provide u with a fix

Same here, bought a new jeep renegade just after the iPhone se and I blamed the car's uConnect, came to this post and tried with my wife's phone 5s which worked just fine. Will have a call with apple tomorrow and keep following this thread.

Please forgive me if this thought has been previously expressed:

I have a new SE and also paired it over Bluetooth with a BMW (though UK). The resultant audio quality was deeply unimpressive. I checked my BMW phone software version and found it to be TN-002.033.002. I visited the BMW update page, inserted my chassis number and found a newer version: TN-002.034.070. The installation notes for this update mention better audio quality with Apple devices. I updated the car with this version and the audio quality is indeed now immeasurably improved.

Great ill up date my 2006 HONDA info with your new Bmw software and I should be good to go