How to Connect To Ultimate Ears Wonderboom 1 Speaker

Front view of the Wonderboom 1.

Explains how to connect to Ultimate Ears Wonderboom 1 Speaker from typical Bluetooth devices like Apple iOS and iPadOS devices. Similar directions work on Android as well.

So start with your speaker OFF (all dark LEDs). Then, follow along to connect to it. In this demo, we show this on an iPad Air tablet.

How to Connect to Ultimate Ears Wonderboom 1 Speaker: Step by Step

1. Visit the Home Screen on your Source Bluetooth Device

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

2. Find the Settings App

We find ours on the second page of the Home screen. Most any mobile device these days has some sort of Settings app. If yours does not, then follow the directions in its manual for connecting to a Bluetooth speaker.

An iPad Home screen showing the -Settings- app.

3. Bring up the Settings App

Tap the Settings app icon.

The mobile device then displays the first page of its Settings screen.

The -Settings- screen showing the -Bluetooth- item.

4. Go to the Bluetooth Settings Page to Continue with How to Connect to Ultimate Ears Wonderboom 1 Speaker

Then tap the Bluetooth item.

Our Bluetooth Settings screen then comes up. Note that our Bluetooth is ON here. But the Ultimate Ears Wonderboom 1 Speaker is currently OFF. So it does not show in either the My Devices or Other Devices lists yet. Why? Because we’ve not yet connected to it from this device before. Plus, the Ultimate Ears Wonderboom 1 Speaker is not yet transmitting its connection info.

iPad Air tablet showing previously paired Bluetooth devices list.

5. Power On your Ultimate Ears Wonderboom 1 Speaker

Turn on the Ultimate Ears Wonderboom 1 Speaker by rapidly pressing and releasing its Power button.

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

The speaker then powers UP.

The glowing -Power- button .

6. Put your Ultimate Ears Wonderboom 1 Speaker into Pairing Mode

Then, to see your Ultimate Ears Wonderboom 1 Speaker on your mobile device, start up pairing / discovery mode. For that, press and release the Bluetooth button.

The -Bluetooth- button.

When you press this Pairing button, the speaker makes a distinctive sound a few times. Plus, a light in this button starts quickly blinking white. See this in the last picture above.

7. Find your Ultimate Ears Wonderboom 1 Speaker on your Mobile Device

We found ours here.

The -Settings- page, showing the Ultimate Ears Wonderboom 1 Speaker discovered.

8. Next, Connect to your Ultimate Ears Wonderboom 1 Speaker

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

Then your mobile device then connects to the Ultimate Ears Wonderboom 1 Speaker (appears as “WONDERBOOM” in this demo).

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

The Ultimate Ears Wonderboom 1 Speaker now in the -My Devices- list.

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

9. Done with How to Connect to Ultimate Ears Wonderboom 1 Speaker !

Finally, we have now connected our source device to the Ultimate Ears Wonderboom 1 Speaker. So now, Audio content from that device wnow plays on this speaker.