How to Pair Ultimate Ears Wonderboom 3 to Phone

An iPhone 12 Pro Max sitting in front of a Wonderboom 3.

This post shows How to Pair Ultimate Ears Wonderboom 3 to Phone and other iOS devices such as an iPod Touch and iPad. Start with your speaker shut OFF (all dark LEDs). Then, follow along to pair it with a phone.

How to Pair Ultimate Ears Wonderboom 3 to Phone: Step by Step

1. Visit the Home Screen

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

3. Find the Settings App

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

Typical -Home- screen on a phone/ Showing the -Settings- app.

3. Bring up the Settings App

Tap the Settings app icon. Find this pointed at in the last picture.

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

The phone -Settings- page, showing the -Bluetooth- option.

4. Go to the Bluetooth Settings Page to Continue with How to Pair Ultimate Ears Wonderboom 3 to Phone

Tap the Bluetooth item, as pointed at by the green arrow in the last screenshot.

The 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 pair it with this device for the first time. Plus, the speaker is not yet transmitting its Bluetooth pair info. See this scenario, that appears as shown next.

The Bluetooth page.

Note in this picture that no Ultimate Ears Wonderboom 3 appears yet.

5. Power On your Ultimate Ears Wonderboom 3

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

Top view of the Ultimate Ears Wonderboom 3. Showing the dark -Power- button.

The Ultimate Ears Wonderboom 3 then comes on, and announces this with a rising electronic sound. The Power button also lights up, as we see next.

The glowing -Power- button.

6. Put your Ultimate Ears Wonderboom 3 into Pairing Mode

Now, to see the speaker on your phone, place it into BT discovery mode. For that, press and hold the Bluetooth button located as shown in the next picture. It’s on the top, at the twelve o’clock position in he buttons panel. Release the button when you hear the rising plunks sound.

Top view of the Ultimate Ears Wonderboom 3 and its dark -Bluetooth Pairing- button.

Also, a lamp in this button starts quickly flashing white.

The -Bluetooth Pairing- button glowing / flashing white.

7. Find your Ultimate Ears Wonderboom 3 on the Phone

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

The phone Bluetooth page, showing the Ultimate Ears Wonderboom 3 as discovered but not paired.

8. Pair With Your Ultimate Ears Wonderboom 3

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

Your phone then pairs with the 3 (appears as “WONDERBOOM 3” in this demo).

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

The Bluetooth page, showing the Ultimate Ears Wonderboom 3 as paired.

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

9. Done with How to Pair Ultimate Ears Wonderboom 3 to Phone !

Lastly, we have now successfully paired this speaker with the test cell phone. Audio output from that source device now plays on the Ultimate Ears Wonderboom 3.