When you scan for in-range Bluetooth speakers, your JBL Clip 3 shows up as “JBL Clip 3” by default. Yet we know of no way how to change JBL Clip 3 name. Now the Connect app does indeed support the more expensive JBL Flips. But not the Clip 3. This means that you cannot rename the Clip 3. So be it.
But in this post, we outline how our idea of changing the JBL Clip 3 Bluetooth name routine would work. We suggest this specifically to JBL. Who knows? Maybe they’ll decide to extend the JBL Connect app to include the JBL Clip 3. So here’s how we think changing the Bluetooth name would work if they ever did this.
First, install the JBL Connect app on your Android or iOS mobile device. Then, turn on your Clip 3 and pair your mobile device with it. Then, follow the steps below to change the Clip 3 name. This is the name that appears during Bluetooth discovery on nearby devices.
How to Change JBL Clip 3 Name: Step by Step
1. Find the JBL Connect App on your Mobile Device
Our copy installed on home screen four, as shown next.

2. Run the JBL Connect App
Tap the JBL Connect app icon.
Then, you would see the controls for changing the JBL Clip 3 settings.
3. Get to the Settings Screen
Tap the gear Settings button, as pointed at in the last picture by the purple arrow.
You should then see the Settings screen for the paired Clip 3.
4. Edit the Settings for the Paired JBL Clip 3
Tap the pencil icon next to the Clip 3. Note that we include no screenshots of this app working with the Clip 3. Why not? Because it does not work like this as of this writing. We’re just thinking out loud in this piece.
5. Edit the Name Field
Use the virtual keyboard to change the name to the one you want.
We’d like to change ours from “JBL Clip 3” to “Tom’s Clip 3”.
First, we’d backspace over the default name (“JBL Clip 3”).
Then, we’d type in the new name, “Tom’s Clip 3”.
6. Tap the Blue Done Key when Finished Editing
Once you change the Clip 3 name, tap the blue Done key on the keyboard.
You would then get instructions on how to pair your Clip 3 again with its new name.
7. Tap the Blue Got It Link
This takes you back to the Settings screen for the speaker. But now, the JBL Clip 3 appears with its new name assigned.
Pairing the Clip 3 with its New Name
With your JBL Clip 3 still paired under its old name, run through this routine to unpair it. Then forget it in your mobile device. And finally, re pair it under its new name.
1. Power Down the JBL Clip 3
This unpairs it from your mobile device.

2. Return your Mobile Device to its Home Screen
Press the Home button to close the JBL Connect app, and reveal the mobile device’s Home screen.
3. Find the Settings App
We found ours on the second page of the iOS home screen on our iPad Air, as shown next.

4. Bring up the Settings App
Tap the Settings app icon.
The mobile device then displays the first page of its settings, as shown next.
5. Go to Bluetooth Settings
Our Bluetooth settings screen displays as follows on our iPad Air tablet. Note that our Bluetooth is running here. But since we turned off our JBL Clip 3, it shows as Not Connected. See this as shown in this list of previously paired Bluetooth devices, shown next.

6. Tap the JBL Clip 3 Entry
So find that entry at the last item on the list in this demo.
Then, the JBL Clip 3 device screen appears.

7. Tap the Forget This Device Option
When you tap the Forget This Device link, you then get the Forget “JBL Clip 3” prompt.

8. Tap the Red OK Button
Tapping OK removes the JBL Clip 3 pairing data from the mobile device.
After you hit OK, the Forget JBL Clip 3 window closes. Then the system takes you back to the previously paired Bluetooth devices list.

9. Turn On your Clip 3
Turn on the Clip by quickly pressing its Power button.

The Clip 3 then powers up.
It now has a new Bluetooth name that presumably no other nearby Bluetooth devices know about. So it will not pair with anything. Furthermore, the light that comes on in the power switch denotes this by slowly blinking white.

10. Start Up Discovery Mode
Now, to see your newly named Clip 3 on your mobile device, place the unit into Bluetooth discovery mode. Do this by pressing and releasing the Bluetooth button, as shown in the next picture.

When you press the Bluetooth Discovery Mode button, the speaker makes a repeating single pluck guitar note sound two times. Also, the status light changes from a slow to fast blinking white.

11. Find your Clip 3 with its New Name on your Mobile Device
We would find our speaker with its new Bluetooth name.
12. Pair with It
Again, note that this is our dream of how this process should work if JBL eventually supports this.
Tap the listed Clip 3 in the Other Devices portion of the Bluetooth devices list.
Your mobile device then pairs with the JBL Clip 3 using its new name.
13. Done !
Perhaps one day, we will successfully change the name of our JBL Clip 3. And then we will pair it using this new name.
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