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  1. A

    iPhone 7 Plus/Beats Solo 3/W1 Chip

    Hey all! Just wondering if anyone has had any experience with the new Beats Solo 3 Wireless/W1 Chip and their iPhone 7. I just bought the Solo 3's a few days ago. The ease of pairing is unbelievable, and the ease of switching between iPhone and iPad is a huge plus. However, I do have a problem...
  2. melillobm

    Apple Watch Series 2 Constantly Locking

    I've done some browsing and I haven't seen anyone else with this issue recently so I'm posting it here to see if anyone else knows how to fix it. I have an iPhone 7 Plus with 10.1 and a Apple watch series 2. When my watch is around other bluetooth items, it will constantly lock and prompt for...
  3. S

    iPhone drops Bluetooth speaker connexion for Phone app

    the title should say it all. Bluetooth works with all my audio apps but when I place a phone call it drops the Bluetooth connection and resets it immediately after I hang up. I suspect this behavior is not avoidable.
  4. MrXiro

    Airpods or Beats X or PowerBeats 3?

    First off I have something like 15 pairs of bluetooth headphones of different sizes and varieties, from Sony XB950BTs to 3 pairs of knock off powerbeats I found on Amazon for $10-$25, etc. But I'm really curious about the new Apple W1 chipped headphones and I'm wondering what everyone is...
  5. S

    Audio playback without iPhone

    Hi everyone, I would love to use my Apple Watch at the gym without my iPhone nearby. I have accessible wifi when I'm at the gym. As a Spotify user, I haven't switched to Apple Music to use its offline music (on watch) feature. I also haven't been able to find an audio app that will stream...
  6. K

    Control center Bluetooth Issue iPhone 7, iOs 10

    Anyone having a problem where, if you have no devices paired yet (or, all removed from bluetooth history) and turn off the bluetooth via settings and, turn set the bluetooth on via control center from the home screen, the top panel doesn't show the little bluetooth icon? Not sure if its an issue...
  7. neiled

    Beats Solo 3 - Keep needing to re-pair

    Anyone else got these? They've been fine for the most part. However it seems after they've been turned off for a few hours the next time you turn them on they don't automatically pair, you have to put them close to the phone again and click the little dialog box to say 'connect'. Pretty sure it...
  8. R

    Swimming Bluetooth headphones

    Hi all, I want to go swimming with my Watch but it's so much better with music and the Apple Watch can have my music and have Bluetooth. Do you know Waterproof Bluetooth headphones for this use ?
  9. 0

    iPhone 7 and bluetooth car audio

    For some reason the bluetooth audio cuts out after a track or two and will not come back on until restarting bluetooth all together on my 2015 BMW with iDrive (latest idrive firmware). I thought it was the OS at first so I did a network reset first that didn't help. Second I did a full erase of...
  10. Nonstickron

    Steelseries Stratus controller

    I've got the little white one. It connects to iOS but now that I've upgraded to iOS 10 games seem to be unresponsive to inputs on the controller. I've put in a ticket with the company, who don't even offer an option for iOS10 on the operating system dropdown selector yet. I'll update with their...
  11. DCIFRTHS

    Bluetooth Audio issues in car.

    iPhone 5S on iOS GM 10. Previous Bluetooth audio quality was fine. I am getting terrible quality audio when using Bluetooth in my car. This happens using Siri and while making a call. The audio is low and sounds almost "raspy" - like a cheap mono speaker over AM radio. I had to raise the...
  12. S

    How will a wireless future work with GarageBand?

    With Apple pushing for a wireless audio future on their iPhones, one scenario holding them back for a (probably small) group of people is with their own Garageband app and similar apps. Garageband requires wired headphones to hear a track while recording a new track on top, in order to stay...
  13. kirbyrun

    Maps Voice Navigation Cuts off in Car

    Since updating to iOS 10, Siri is now cut off when I use Apple Maps through my car's Bluetooth (not CarPlay, BTW). She'll go to say, for example, "Start at Smith Street," but only get through "Start at" and then stop. If I'm playing music or a podcast, it will pause for the full length of what...
  14. critic81

    Music will not shuffle when connected to my cars bluetooth

    Weird issue here. I have a Mazda CX-9 and when my iOS 10 iPhone connects to the Bluetooth to play audio I can't shuffle or repeat. Basically if I bring up the nownplaying card and hit the shuffle button, you see the list get shuffled and the button get toggled but only for a fraction of a second...
  15. Stuey3D

    Some wireless headphone advice for those considering an iPhone 7

    Hi all I've decided to create this post to hopefully impart some wisdom/experience onto you guys. A while back I broke the headphone jack on my iPhone 6 and was forced to go wireless as I didn't have a headphone jack BEFORE Apple made it cool. Since then I have upgraded to a 6S+ and although...
  16. OldSchoolMacGuy

    iPhone 7 gets Bluetooth 5

    The iPhone 7 will feature Bluetooth 5. The new Bluetooth 5 quadruples range, doubles speed, and increases data broadcasting capacity by 800% over Bluetooth 4.0. The iPhone 4S was the first smartphone to feature Bluetooth 4.0 and the MacBook Air and Mac mini were the first computers to get the...
  17. salivan

    stutter and choppiness when connected via bluetooth

    I've mouse/keyboard/headphones connected via BT to macbook pro 13 (2014). Everything works fine, until I wake mac from sleep. Once I wake it up from sleep, everything starts to stutter (OS X GUI, video, or audio I'm listening to, everything becomes choppy) - if I disconnect any out of 3 BT...
  18. C

    iMac Audio Issues after Repair

    I don't know a lot about the internals of iMacs, but I had a question... I took my Late 2012 iMac into Apple Store for repair as I had lines on my monitor (not like the ones you can google, like grid lines/guide lines that you'd see in Illustrator/Photoshop and it turned out I had to have the...
  19. S

    Reminders App - car location based Reminders with non CarPlay car receivers

    Hello! I've noticed, in the Reminders App car-location-based Reminders (Getting in the car/Getting out of the car) are working with some bluetooth car receivers, that aren't CarPlay capable! (iPhone 6, iOS 9.3.5) :-) With my old car receiver Sony MEX BT 3700 U (in Germany, since 2009) it...
  20. 3

    No Wi-Fi when Bluetooth is on?

    Hi all, I have a Macbook Air from 2014, and most of the time I do not have wi-fi, while using my Magic Mouse, or if Bluetooth is on. As soon as I turn Bluetooth off, everything loads quickly. Otherwise, it just tells me that Safari couldn't connect to the server. (Had similar issues with...