How to Connect a JBL Wonderboom 3 Speaker to an iPhone

An iPhone 12 Pro Max sitting in front of a Wonderboom 3.

This post shows how to connect a JBL Wonderboom 3 Speaker to an iPhone and other iOS devices such as an iPod Touch and iPad. Start with your speaker shut OFF (all dark LEDs). Then, follow along to connect it with iPhone.

How to Connect a JBL Wonderboom 3 Speaker to an iPhone: Step by Step

1. Visit the Home Screen

Press the Home button to get to the Home page. See our screen as shown next.

3. Find the Settings App

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. Find this pointed at in the last picture.

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

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

4. Go to the Bluetooth Settings Page to Continue with How to Connect a JBL Wonderboom 3 Speaker to an iPhone

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

The Bluetooth Settings screen then appears as follows. Note that our Bluetooth is switched ON here. But since the speaker is currently OFF, it does not show in either the My Devices or Other Devices lists on the tablet yet, Why? Because we have yet to connect it with this device for the first time. Plus, the speaker is not yet transmitting its Bluetooth connection info. See this scenario, that appears as shown next.

The Bluetooth page in iPhone settings.

Note in this picture that no JBL Wonderboom 3 Speaker appears yet.

5. Power ON the Speaker

Turn on the unit by quickly pressing its Power button. See this button, pointed out in the next picture.

Top view of the JBL Wonderboom 3 Speaker. Showing the dark -Power- button.

The JBL Wonderboom 3 Speaker then comes on, and announces this with a rising electronic sound. The Power button also lights up, as we see next.

The glowing -Power- button.

6. Put the Speaker into Pairing Mode

Now, to see the speaker on your iPhone, place it into BT discovery mode. For that, press and hold the Bluetooth button located as shown in the next picture. It’s on the top, at the twelve o’clock position in he buttons panel. Release the button when you hear the rising plunks sound.

Top view of the JBL Wonderboom 3 Speaker and its dark -Bluetooth Pairing- button.

Also, a lamp in this button starts quickly flashing white.

The -Bluetooth Pairing- button glowing / flashing white.

7. Find your JBL Wonderboom 3 Speaker on your iPhone

See the picture next. We found ours, as pointed out next.

The iPhone Bluetooth page, showing the JBL Wonderboom 3 Speaker as discovered but not connected.

8. Connect To It

Tap the listed speaker in the Other Devices section of the Bluetooth Devices list, shown above.

Your iPhone then connects with the speaker (appears as “WONDERBOOM 3” in this demo).

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

iPhone Bluetooth page, showing the JBL Wonderboom 3 Speaker as Connected.

Note that the speaker now appears as connected, as pointed out in the last picture.

9. Done !

Lastly, we have now successfully connected this Bluetooth speaker with the test iPhone. Audio output from that source device now plays on the JBL Wonderboom 3 Speaker.