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Bluetooth issues with iPhone X?

My Apple Watch and my Bose wireless headphones won't connect.

iPhone X, iOS 11.1

Posted on Nov 4, 2017 10:17 PM

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Posted on Nov 8, 2017 11:19 AM

My phone has been paired to both my car (porsche with PCM 3.1) and the Automatic OBDII adapter. However, over the course of a short drive it will disconnect and then reconnect periodically. Sometimes it won't reconnect, but manually going to Settings/Bluetooth and I force it to reconnect.


Several times I've been on a call and the BT drops. And I have Waze configure to use BT Audio and often the audio quality is extremely poor.


My iPhone 7Plus worked perfectly in the same vehicle.

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Nov 11, 2017 10:25 AM in response to bAdGigabit

Actually I had already installed 11.1.1 and was still experiencing inconsistencies with Bluetooth across all my multiple Bluetooth devices Airpods, b&o H5 and b&o H8. Sometimes it would stay stuck with one device and not move to the other one even though the choice was clearly available. I end up using multiple devices while traveling to optimize for over ear, noise cancelling and battery life.

Nov 15, 2017 1:12 PM in response to lobsterghost1

I've gone through all the various permutations... what seemed to work the last 10 minutes I drove my car was unplugging the 'Automatic' dongle. My radio stayed connected to the X for the full 10 minutes - hasn't done that since getting the X. Will continue to try permutations like unpairing Automatic and pluging it back in.


I just tried pairing with the BT speaker - and just finished a 2 hour conference call without any issues. So my problems seem to be focused on the Car. And potentially a conflict between Automatic and the Porsche PCM - which worked fine on the 7Plus.

Nov 16, 2017 5:20 AM in response to stretto

I’m having major problems with Bluetooth connection with my iPhone X in my 2017 BMW X3. Phone keeps connecting and loosing connection and it keeps crashing the cars iDrive system.I tried everything mentioned in all the replies here and nothing works. I took the phone into an ATT store where they ran a diagnostic and found that the phone has a faulty Bluetooth.. I have an appointment today with an AppleGenious .

Nov 16, 2017 1:38 PM in response to chrisx2mama

I'm also having Bluetooth issues. My previous iPhone (7), would always connect to both of my cars automatically. Now it only connects to one and the other I have to connect manually every single time. Pretty aggravating.


Pandora is also having tons of issues. It freezes and I have to restart it a few times before it works.


Last night I was showing photos from my phone on my TV via airplay and it was super slow to the point of not working at times and also losing connection.


I'm regretting the purchase.


It's a $1,150 phone it should at least do the basic stuff right. Common Apple did you half baked the iPhone X?

Nov 17, 2017 5:15 AM in response to stretto

Having trouble with connecting to UConnect with my iPhone X - both of my other iPhones (6 and 7s) connect without any issues. I deleted all phones from my UConnect configuration and added just the iPhone X back in. I did a reset of Network settings and it seemed to fix the problem temporarily. In my case, UConnect shows that it is is connected, but bluetooth audio doesn't work once it goes wonky. Reseting Network settings seems to get it working again.

Nov 17, 2017 11:13 PM in response to stretto

Hi!I have massive Bluetooth issues, too with my iPhone X. Dropouts with headphones and AirPods. Location data ist not recorded when doing workouts with Apple Watch Series 3, etc. Took me some days to pinpoint. But it seems obvious that all issues (headphones, Apple Watch) seem to be Bluetooth related. Additionally my Apple Watch shows significantly higher battery consumption since it constantly falls back to cellular.

Sometimes when using headphones the audio seems to pick up rather quickly. Sometimes the connection is completely lost. With AirPods it is not as exaggerated with my other Bluetooth headphones but there are some hiccups here and there, too. I could not even do the initial setup of AirPods on iPhone X since the setup assistant did not show up automatically. With Apple Watch Series 3 it is pretty much the same. Connection is getting lost and will recover a short time afterwards.


I have reset Apple Watch and AirPods to factory settings and paired from scratch with no effect. The same with the other Bluetooth headphones where I have reset the pairing. And I have reset all network settings, too.


I will try a reset from scratch w/o using a backup. Maybe it will help? Any experiences? And has anyone tried iOS 11.2 beta yet?

Bluetooth issues with iPhone X?

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