Picture of the right front of the JBL Flip 6 speaker.

How to Restart Flip 6

Explains How to Restart Flip 6 below…

How to Restart Flip 6: Summary

First, if the speaker is behaving strangely, try holding in the Power button for 10 seconds.  This will forcibly shut it down. hen you can turn it on again and see if the problem goes away.

But if that doesn’t work, you may have to do a complete factory reset to solve your speaker issues. Note that restarting by brute force does not erase the speaker paired devices list.  But this next way does erase any earlier paired Bluetooth devices from memory.  Wiping these stops it from pairing to any in-range Bluetooth devices after the restart.

How to Restart Flip 6: Step by Step

1. Turn on the Speaker

Press and hold the Power button until it lights.

Picture of the dark -Power- button on the Flip 6.
The dark -Power- button on the Flip 6.

Then, the Power button comes on along with the battery power scale.  Here, since we’ve paired the speaker with Bluetooth devices before this, it does not enter discovery mode.

Picture of the glowing -Power- button.
The glowing -Power- button.

2. Wait for the Power Up Sound

The Flip 6 plays a rising rock guitar strum when it powers up.

3. Press the Volume UP and Play-Pause Buttons Together

Picture of the -Play-Pause- and -Volume UP- buttons.
The -Play-Pause- and -Volume UP- buttons.

The speaker then begins a complete restart.  Note that both the Bluetooth and Power buttons light up gray white for a couple seconds.

Picture of all lights on the button panel glowing on the Flip 6.
All lights on the button panel glowing on the Flip 6.

Then after a short pause, the speaker turns off.  All the lights go out, and it plays the power-down guitar sound.

4. Boot the Speaker Again

Next, power on the Flip 6 again, as we detail in step 1 above.

Now this time, after restart, our speaker comes up in Bluetooth discovery mode, as shown next.  Note that the Bluetooth button fast blinks white to denote this.  When the   Bluetooth  button blinks, this means that the Flip 6 has no pairing.  Indeed, we expect it not to auto pair to anything after restart.

Picture of the Bluetooth button blinking.
The Bluetooth button blinking.

5. Done with How to Restart Flip 6 !

Restarting is now complete.  Hopefully, this clears up any problems you had before.

Other Flip 6 Posts

  1. How to Bass Boost
  2. How to Tell If Is Charging
  3. Battery
  4. How to Make Discoverable
  5. How to Reset

References for How to Restart Flip 6

  1. Official Flip 6 Support Page
  2. Where to Buy the Flip 6