This post shows how to connect a Sony SRS XB22 wireless speaker to an iPhone smart phone. Doing so gives you a bigger, and clearly better sound when you stream music from the iPhone to speakers like this one.
With the XB22 switched OFF (power button is dark), run through this routine to connect it to your iPhone mobile device. For this demo, the test phone is an iPhone 12 Pro Max.
Firstly, press and release the side button (right edge of the phone) and enter your passcode or Face Id to bring up the Home screen.
Next, flip through the Home screen pages until you find the Settings app. We found ours on the second page of the Home screen, as shown next.
Thirdly, tap the Settings app icon.
The smart device then shows the first page of its settings, as shown in the next step.
Tap the Bluetooth item on the Settings page.
Then you get the Bluetooth Settings screen, as we show next.
Note that our Bluetooth is running here. But since our test Sony SRS XB22 speaker is currently shut OFF (is not in Bluetooth pairing mode), it does not show up in the BT devices list. Also, we don’t see it since we’ve never paired this speaker with this iPhone before.
Turn on the XB 22 by quickly pressing its Power-Pairing button. See this, pointed at by the cyan arrow, in the next picture.
The speaker then boots up, and its status lamp glows white, as we see in the next picture.
Also, the Bluetooth Status lamp will blink blue in some pattern to indicate that the speaker is ready to answer a Bluetooth pairing request. Or it may glow solidly, meaning that the speaker paired with some nearby device upon startup.
If this lamp blinks evenly, then it’s passively waiting for a Bluetooth connection request to come in.
But if it blinks in a fast flashing pattern, then it’s broadcasting its connection information over Bluetooth so other devices can find and link it. I.e. The speaker is in pairing mode in this case.
Moreover, since our test iPhone does not know about this speaker, this test speaker will not pair with it automatically.
Now, to see this speaker on your iPhone, place it into Bluetooth pairing mode if it’s not in that mode already. To do that, press the Power-Pairing button. Then release it when the unit says, “Bluetooth pairing” in a lady’s voice. Also, the Bluetooth Status lamp begins its rapid flashing, as we see in the last picture.
See the screen shot next. We found our speaker, as shown next.
Tap the listed speaker in the Other Devices list.
The iPhone then pairs with the test speaker here.
I.e. The iPhone’s Bluetooth Settings screen might then change to look something like the following. Note the now-paired Sony SRS XB22 entry, as we point out with the green arrow next.
At last, we have now successfully connected the XB22 test speaker with a popular iPhone.
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