How to Pair Ultimate Ears Wonderboom 2 to iPhone

An iPhone in front of the Wonderboom 2.

This post shows How to Pair Ultimate Ears Wonderboom 2 to iPhone and other iOS devices such as an iPod Touch and iPad. Start with your speaker shut OFF (all dark LEDs). Then, follow along to connect it with iPhone.

How to Pair Ultimate Ears Wonderboom 2 to iPhone: Step by Step

1. Visit the Home Screen on your iPhone

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

2. Find the Settings App

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

iPhone -Home- screen showing the -Settings- app.

3. Bring up the Settings App

Tap the Settings app icon.

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

iPhone -Settings- page, showing the -Bluetooth- option.

4. Go to the Bluetooth Settings Page to Continue with How to Pair Ultimate Ears Wonderboom 2 to iPhone

Tap the Bluetooth item, as pointed at by the 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 speaker is currently OFF, it does not show in either the My Devices or Other Devices lists on the tablet yet, Why? Because we have yet to connect it with this device for the first time. Plus, the speaker is not yet transmitting its Bluetooth connection info. See this scenario, that appears as shown next.

The Bluetooth page in iPhone settings.

Note in this picture that no Ultimate Ears Wonderboom 2 appears yet.

5. Power On your Ultimate Ears Wonderboom 2

Turn on the unit by quickly pressing its Power button. See this button, pointed out in the next picture.

The Top of the Ultimate Ears Wonderboom 2. Showing the dark -Power- button.

The speaker then comes on.

Top view of the speaker, powered ON, with its -Power-button lit and highlighted.

6. Put your Ultimate Ears Wonderboom 2 into Pairing Mode

Now, to see the speaker on your iPhone, place it into BT discovery mode. For that, press and hold the Bluetooth button as circled in the next picture, until the rising plunks sound.

Top view of the Ultimate Ears Wonderboom 2 with its Bluetooth pairing button circled.

Indeed the speaker makes a distinctive noise twice. Plus, a lamp in this button starts quickly flashing white. See this in the last picture above.

7. Find your Ultimate Ears Wonderboom 2 on your iPhone

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

The iPhone Bluetooth page, showing the Ultimate Ears Wonderboom 2 as discovered but not connected.

8. Pair with your Speaker

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

Your iPhone then connects with the speaker (appears as “WONDERBOOM 2” in this demo).

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

iPhone Bluetooth page, showing the Ultimate Ears Wonderboom 2 as Connected.

Note that the speaker now appears as connected, as pointed out in the last picture.

9. Done with How to Pair Ultimate Ears Wonderboom 2 to iPhone !

Lastly, we have now successfully connected this Bluetooth speaker with the test iPhone. Audio output from that source device now plays on the Ultimate Ears Wonderboom 2.