Using iPhone with a Third-Party Headset or Car Kit

You must first pair a Bluetooth device with iPhone before you can use it for your phone calls.

Pairing a Bluetooth Headset or Car Kit

Pairing sets iPhone to work with only one headset. This prevents iPhone from sending your calls to some other headset.

Pair iPhone with a Bluetooth headset or car kit

1. Follow the instructions that came with the headset or car kit to make it discoverable or to set it to search for other Bluetooth devices. This may involve entering a passkey or PIN number.

2. From the Home screen, choose Settings > General > Bluetooth and turn Bluetooth on. iPhone searches for nearby Bluetooth devices.

3. Choose the headset or device on iPhone and enter a passkey or PIN number. The instructions that came with the headset or car kit should tell you how to get the passkey.

Routing Calls Through a Bluetooth Headset, Car Kit, or iPhone

After you've paired a Bluetooth device to work with iPhone, you must make a connection to have iPhone use the device for your calls.

When iPhone is connected to a Bluetooth device, all outgoing calls are routed through the device by default. Incoming calls are routed through the device if you answer using the device, and through iPhone if you answer using iPhone. In some cases, your contacts list transfers to the car kit and you can start a call by looking up a contact on the car kit's display.

iPhone can be connected with only one Bluetooth device at a time.

Route calls through a Bluetooth headset or car kit

Make a connection between iPhone and the headset or car kit

To connect with a third-party Bluetooth headset, see the documentation that came with the headset.

Once you have paired iPhone with a Bluetooth car kit, iPhone connects to the car kit automatically when you start your car (if you have iPhone with you and Bluetooth is turned on).

Bluetooth Status

You can see whether Bluetooth is on or off, and whether a Bluetooth device is connected to iPhone, by looking at the Bluetooth icon  in the iPhone status bar at the top of the screen:

•  or  (white): Bluetooth is on and a device is connected to iPhone.
•  (gray): Bluetooth is on but no device is connected. If you've paired a device with iPhone it may be out of range or turned off.
• No Bluetooth icon in status bar: Bluetooth is turned off.

Stop Using a Headset or Car Kit

There are a few ways to stop using a headset or car kit and go back to hearing calls through iPhone.

Route calls through iPhone

• Answer a call by tapping the iPhone touchscreen

• During a call, tap Audio on iPhone. Choose iPhone to hear calls through iPhone, choose Speaker Phone to hear calls through the speakerphone, or choose a connected Bluetooth device.

• Turn off Bluetooth.

• Turn off the headset or car kit, or move out of range. You must be within 30 feet of a Bluetooth device for it to be connected to iPhone.

  To turn off the iPhone Bluetooth Headset, press and hold the button until you hear the falling tones.

Unpairing a Device from iPhone

If you've paired iPhone with a device and want to use another device instead, you must unpair the first device.

Unpair a device from iPhone

1. From the Home screen choose Settings > General > Bluetooth. If Bluetooth isn't on, turn it on.

2. Choose a device and tap Unpair.

   Until you pair the device with iPhone again, iPhone doesn't route calls through it.