An iPhone in front of the Sony SRS XB30 speaker.
This post shows how to pair a Sony XB30 BT portable 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 XB30 switched OFF (power button is dark), run through this routine to pair 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 XB30 wireless 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 30 by pressing its Power-Pairing button. E.g. See this, pointed at by the cyan arrow, in the next picture.
The speaker then boots, and that same button lights up 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 respond to a pairing request. Or it may glow solidly, meaning that the speaker paired with some nearby device upon startup.
If this lamp flashes slowly, then it’s passively waiting for a wireless 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 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 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 and hold in the Power-Pairing button. Then release it when the unit emits a rising sequence of beeps and says, “Bluetooth pairing” in a female voice. 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 XB30 entry, as we point out with the green arrow next.
The 30 also plays a ding-dong note set to let you know that a connection has been made.
At last, we have now successfully paired the XB30 test speaker with a popular iPhone.
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