How to Connect a JBL Wonderboom 1 Speaker to an iPhone

An iPhone in front of the Wonderboom 1.

This post shows how to connect a JBL Wonderboom 1 Speaker to an iPhone. First off: Start with your speaker shut OFF (all dark LEDs). Then, follow along to connect it with iPhone. So in this demo, we show how this connect works on an iPad Air mobile computer. But like procedures work for iPhones, and iPod Touch players as well.

How to Connect a JBL Wonderboom 1 Speaker to an iPhone: Step by Step

1. Visit the Home Screen on your iPhone

First, press the Home button to get to the Home iPad page. See our Home screen as shown next.

2. Find the Settings App

Then locate this app on the iPhone. In fact, we found ours on the second page of the Home screen.

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

3. Bring up the Settings App

Tap the Settings app icon.

The iPhone then displays the first page of its Settings screen, as shown in the next screenshot.

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

4. Go to the Bluetooth Settings Page to Continue with How to Connect a JBL Wonderboom 1 Speaker to an iPhone

Tap the Bluetooth item, as pointed at by the dark green arrow in the last screenshot above.

Our Bluetooth Settings screen then appears as follows. Now the JBL Wonderboom 1 Speaker is currently not in pairing mode. So it does not show in the Other Devices list. Why? Because we’ve not yet connected it with this device before.

The -Bluetooth Settings- page.

Note in this picture that no JBL Wonderboom 1 Speaker appears yet.

5. Power On your JBL Wonderboom 1 Speaker

Turn on the speaker by quickly pressing its Power button. See this button, circled in green, in the next picture.

The JBL Wonderboom 1 Speaker top view. Showing the dark -Power- button.

The speaker then comes on.

The glowing -Power- button.

6. Put your Speaker into Pairing Mode

Now to see your JBL Wonderboom 1 Speaker on your iPhone, place it into BT pairing mode. For that, press and release the Bluetooth button.

The -Bluetooth- button flashing.

When you press this Pairing button, the speaker makes a distinctive sound several times. Furthermore, a lamp in this button starts rapidly flashing white.

7. Find your JBL Wonderboom 1 Speaker on your iPhone

We found ours, as we point out in the next pic.

iOS Bluetooth page, showing the JBL Wonderboom 1 Speaker as discovered but not paired.

8. Connect with your JBL Wonderboom 1 Speaker

Tap the speaker showing in the Other Devices section of the Bluetooth Devices list.

Your iPhone then connects with the JBL Wonderboom 1 Speaker (appears as “WONDERBOOM” in this demo).

The Bluetooth Settings screen then changes to display something like the following.

The speaker showing now as Connected on the iPhone.

Note that the JBL Wonderboom 1 Speaker now appears as connected, as circled inside the green oval in the last picture.

9. Done with How to Connect a JBL Wonderboom 1 Speaker to an iPhone !

Lastly, we have now successfully connected our JBL Wonderboom 1 Speaker with the iPhone. Thus, the audio from that source device now plays on this speaker. Indeed the same happens with most other Bluetooth devices.