How to Connect Harman Kardon Speakers to iPhone

An iPhone beside the Harman Kardon Invoke Bluetooth speaker.

Tis post shows how to connect common Harman Kardon speakers to iPhone.

How to Connect Harman Kardon Speakers to iPhone: Step by Step

Using the Invoke speaker for this demo, we note that this unit has no Power button. In fact, it has no batteries, and runs exclusively on AC power. So to power it up, you just plug it in.

The Harman Kardon Invoke speaker, powered OFF.

1. Bring Up the Home Screen on the iPhone

At the lock screen, swipe up from the bottom. This to bring up the phone’s Home screen, or press the Home button if your phone is older.

2. Find the Settings App

We found ours on the second page of the home screen, shown next.

iPhone -Home- screen showing the -Settings- app.

3. Bring up the Settings App

Tap the Settings app icon.

The -Settings- page, showing the -Bluetooth- option.

The phone then displays the first page of its settings, as we see.

4. Go to the Bluetooth Page to Continue with How to Connect Harman Kardon Speakers to iPhone

Tap the Bluetooth item. Our Bluetooth screen then displays.

The -Bluetooth- page.

Note that our Bluetooth is active here. If yours shows as OFF, then move the switch item to ON.

But pairing mode is not active on our test Harman Kardon speaker. So it does not show up in the Bluetooth devices list. Also, we don’t see it since we’ve never paired this speaker with this iPhone before.

5. Turn On your Bluetooth Speaker

Now if you haven’t done this already, plug your speaker into AC power. It then boots and the light on the top glows in various patterns.

A Harman Kardon speaker booting in progress, preparing to connect it with an iPhone.

The speaker then powers up and makes some sort of power-on sound after about a minute. Then the light island goes dark and the speaker is now ready to accept incoming pairing requests from source devices.

But since the iPhone does not know about this speaker, the phone will not pair with it automatically. The Pairing button denotes this not-paired state by either remaining dark, or by flashing.

Back view of the speaker showing the Bluetooth button.

6. Put your Harman Kardon Speakers into Pairing Mode

Now to see your speaker on your mobile device, place it into pairing mode. To do that, press and release the Pairing button. In this demo, find this button on the back near the bottom of the speaker.

The flashing -Bluetooth- button.

Thee speaker then plays another, but different, rising notes sound, and the Pairing button starts fast blinking white.

7. Find your BT Speaker on your Mobile Device to Continue with How to Connect Harman Kardon Speakers to iPhone

See the screen shot next.

The Harman Kardon speaker shows as Discovered on the iPhone.

8. Next, Connect with your Speaker

Tap the listed speaker in the Other Devices section of the BT devices list.

Your iPhone then connects with the speaker (named “HK Invoke_C33656” in this scenario). The mobile device’s Bluetooth screen then changes to look something like the following.

The Harman Kardon speaker now showing as Connected.

Typical Harman Kardon speakers play some notes now. Why? Because this tells that pairing mode is active, and that we can now attempt to pair.

9. Done with How to Connect Harman Kardon Speakers to iPhone !

At last, we have a successful link with this BT speaker. Likewise, similar routines work with pairing iPod Touch players, iPad Pros, and iPhones. And finally, pairing with Android devices works like this too.