The iPhone Bluetooth Settings page, showing a Sony SRS X11 speaker as Discovered.
This post shows how to connect a Sony X11 ultra portable Bluetooth speaker to an iPhone smart phone. Doing so gives you a bigger, and distinctly better sound when you stream music from the iPhone to speakers like this one.
With the X11 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 X11 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 X 11 by pressing its Power-Pairing button. E.g. See this, pointed at by the yellow arrow, in the next picture.
The speaker then boots up, and the white Status light comes on, as we see in the next picture.
Also, this lamp may blink in some pattern to show that the speaker is ready to respond to a Bluetooth pairing request. Or it may glow solidly, meaning that the speaker paired with some nearby device upon startup. In either case though, continue on with this routine.
If this lamp flashes slowly, then it’s passively waiting for a Bluetooth connection request to come in. But if it blinks in a fast flashing pattern, then the speaker is broadcasting its connection information over Bluetooth so other devices can find and link it. I.e. The speaker is already in pairing mode in this case.
Moreover, since our test iPhone does not know about this speaker since we’ve never connected the two together before, 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 by now. To do that, press the Power-Pairing button. Hold it in until the X11 emits two high beeps and the Status light starts fast flashing. Also, the Bluetooth Status lamp starts its rapid pulsing, as we saw in the last picture.
See the screen shot next. We found our speaker, as shown next.
Tap the listed speaker in the 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 X11 entry, as we point out with the green arrow next.
At last, we have now successfully connected the X11 test speaker with a popular iPhone.
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