How to Connect JBL Wonderboom 2 to Phone

An iPhone in front of the Wonderboom 2.

This post shows How to Connect JBL Wonderboom 2 to Phone 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 the common phone.

How to Connect JBL Wonderboom 2 to Phone: Step by Step

1. Visit the Home Screen on your Phone

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

2. Find the Settings App

We found ours on the second page of the Home screen.

Typical phone -Home- screen showing the -Settings- app.

3. Bring up the Settings App

Tap the Settings app icon.

The phone 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 JBL Wonderboom 2 to Phone

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

Our 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 Settings- page.

Note in this picture that no JBL Wonderboom 2 appears yet.

5. Power On your JBL Wonderboom 2

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

The Top of the JBL Wonderboom 2. Showing the dark -Power- button.

The speaker then comes on.

Top view of the speaker, powered ON, with its -Power-button lit and highlighted.

6. Put your JBL Wonderboom 2 into Pairing Mode

Now, to see the speaker on your phone, place it into BT discovery mode. For that, press and hold the Bluetooth button as circled in the next picture, until the rising plunks sound.

Top view of the JBL Wonderboom 2 with its Bluetooth pairing button circled.

Indeed the speaker makes a distinctive noise twice. Plus, a lamp in this button starts quickly flashing white. See this in the last picture above.

7. Find your JBL Wonderboom 2 Back on the Phone

See the picture next.

The -Bluetooth Settings- page, showing the JBL Wonderboom 2 as discovered but not yet connected.

8. Connect with your Speaker

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

The phone then connects with the speaker (appears as “WONDERBOOM 2” in this demo).

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

The phone now showing the JBL Wonderboom 2 as Connected.

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

9. Done with How to Connect JBL Wonderboom 2 to Phone !

Lastly, we have now successfully connected this Bluetooth speaker with the test phone. Audio output from that source device now plays on the JBL Wonderboom 2.