My Apple Watch recognizes my Bluetooth headphones but will not pair. What am I doing wrong?

I have been trying for weeks to pair my apple watch2 to several different bluetooth speakers and a bluetooth earbud. I tried most of the suggestions listed hear and elsewhere. I always got a message indicating I should either move the bluetooth speaker or earbuds closer to the apple watch or make sure it was turned on in discoverable mode.

I finally found an answer:

Without deleting anything, un-pairing anything or doing any of the many other suggestions.

I put my apple watch in airplane mode by swiping up on the apple watch screen and selecting the airplane icon.

I then started the bluetooth device in discoverable mode, then on the apple watch went to setttings>bluetooth and turned on the bluetooth.

When the bluetooth device appeared on the apple phone bluetooth screen I selected it and voila it paired.

I then took the apple watch off airplane mode. It then paired w/o putting the apple watch in airplane mode..

This method worked with all of my bluetooth devices.

I hope this helps others..

Hi

The following steps may help, having previously resolved the same issue for some other users:

Unpair your earphones from your iPhone or any other device that they may already be paired with.

Restart your Apple Watch:

• Restart your Apple Watch - Apple Support

Check that you are following both the manufacturer's pairing instructions for your earphones and Apple's instructions:

• Use Bluetooth accessories with your Apple Watch - Apple Support

Try moving your Apple Watch and earphones to a different location, further away from any other active Bluetooth devices.

Hello

The main reason I bought the apple watch 2 was due to the option to listening to music directly from the watch. But like others it will not pair to my beats headphones. I took it to an apple store this past weekend where the tec did a hard restart to the music app. Great it worked, for a hot second. So I'm I going to have to restart my watch every day to connect my headphones? To add to the pain once connect I loose the signal 2 or 3 times before it finally stays connected.

Is this my only option?

For me, rebooting the Apple Watch worked. When I was using Bluetooth earphones I had the same issue. Earphones paired with the iPhone with no issues, but would only pair after I rebooted the watch and tried pairing.

Hope this works for you!

Thanks so much! The other "solutions" were unsuccessful; but your solution worked right away! I just wanted to say thank you

THANK YOU!!!! That worked, Aoph!!!!

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