How to Pair UE Wonderboom with iPad Air

Ultimate Ears UE Wonderboom Bluetooth speaker, front view.

This post teaches how to pair UE Wonderboom with iPad Air tablets. First, you start with your Ultimate Ears speaker (UE) shut OFF (all dark top panel LEDs). Then, follow these instructions to pair it to an iPad Air.

How to Pair UE Wonderboom with iPad Air Instructions

1. Visit the Home Screen on your iPad Air

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

2. Then Find the iPad Settings App

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

iPad Home screen with -Settings- app highlighted.

3. Next, Bring up the Settings App

Tap the Settings app icon.

The iPad Air then displays the first page of its Settings screen, as shown in the next screenshot

iOS Settings screen, with Bluetooth turned ON screen showing, and the Bluetooth item highlighted.

4. Then Go to the Bluetooth Settings Page to Continue with How to Pair UE Wonderboom with iPad Air

Tap the Bluetooth item, as pointed at by the dark 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 Ultimate Ears Wonderboom is currently OFF, it does not show in either the My Devices or Other Devices lists on the tablet yet, Why? Because we’ve never paired it with this iPad before. Plus, the speaker is not yet broadcasting its BT connection information. See this situation, that looks something like as shown next.

iPad Air tablet showing previously paired Bluetooth devices list.

Note in this picture that there’s no UE Wonderboom listed yet.

5. Turn On your UE Wonderboom Speaker

Turn on this UE by quickly pressing its Power button. See this button, circled in green, in the next picture.

UE Wonderboom speaker powered OFF, top view, showing the -Power- button circled.

The speaker then comes on.

Ultimate Ears Wonderboom BT speaker, powered ON, showing the top view, with the glowing -Power- button circled.

6. Next, Put your UE Wonderboom into Pairing Mode

Now, to see your speaker on your iPad Air, place the UE Wonderboom into BT pairing mode. For that, press and release the Bluetooth button, as circled in the next picture.

UE Ultimate Ears Wonderboom BT speaker, top view, showing its -Bluetooth- button circled.

When you press this Pairing button, the speaker makes a distinctive sound several times. Plus, a lamp in this button starts rapidly flashing white. See this in the last picture above.

7. Then, Find your Speaker on your iPad Air, to Continue with How to Pair UE Wonderboom with iPad Air

See the picture next. We found ours, as circled in green.

The iOS -Bluetooth Settings- page, showing the UE Wonderboom speaker as discovered But not paired, circled.

8. Next, Pair with your UE Wonderboom Speaker

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

Your iPad Air then pairs with the Wonderboom (appears as “WONDERBOOM” in this demo).

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

iOS Bluetooth Settings page, Showing the Wonderboom UE speaker as paired, and circled.

Note that the Ultimate Ears speaker now shows as paired, as circled inside the green oval in the last picture.

9. Done with How to Pair UE Wonderboom with iPad Air !

We have now successfully paired our UE Wonderboom Bluetooth speaker with our iPad Air iOS device. Audio output from that iPad now plays on this wireless UE speaker, which presumably, is what you want to accomplish. Enjoy!

References for How to Pair UE Wonderboom with iPad Air

UE Wonderboom Speaker Official Product Page at UltimateEars.com

Revision History

2020-04-13: Added more tags.
2019-05-15: Tweaked the targeting for ‘How to Pair UE Wonderboom with iPad Air’ and added tags and related posts links.
2019-02-11: First released.

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