JBL Flip 4 splashproof speaker, right side horizontal view.
This post offers JBL Flip 4 Bluetooth pairing instructions that apply mainly to iOS devices, such as the iPhone, iPod Touch, and the iPad Air line of Apple phones and tablets. But slight variations of these also work when pairing this Bluetooth speaker with Android devices.
With your JBL Flip 4 powered off (power button is dark), run through this routine to pair it to your iPad, iPhone, or iPod Touch iOS mobile device. We’re using an iPad Air tablet for this demo.
Press the Home button to reveal the mobile iOS device’s Home screen.
We found ours on the second page of the iOS home screen on our iPad Air, as shown next.
Tap the Settings app icon.
The iPad then displays the first page of its settings, as shown in the next step.
Our Bluetooth settings screen displays as follows. Note that our Bluetooth is enabled here. But since JBL Flip 4 is currently powered down, it does not show up in the Bluetooth devices list. Also, we don’t see it since we’ve never paired our speaker with this iPad before. See this as shown in this list of previously paired Bluetooth devices, shown next.
Turn on the Bluetooth speaker by quickly pressing its Power button. See this circled in green, in the next picture.
The unit then powers up.
But since our iPad does not know about this speaker, the Flip 4 JBL will not pair with it automatically. The light that comes on in the Power switch denotes this not-paired state by glowing solid white, as shown next.
Now, to see your JBL Flip 4 on your iOS device, place the speaker into Bluetooth discovery mode. To do that, press and release the Bluetooth button, as shown in the next picture.
When you press this Pairing Mode button, the speaker makes a repeating single pluck guitar note sound several times. Also, the Power button changes from a solid white glow to flashing blue. See this next.
See the screen shot next. We found our speaker, as pointed at by the purple arrow.
Tap the listed speaker in the Other Devices section of the Bluetooth devices list.
Our iOS device then pairs with the JBL Flip 4 (“Tom’s Flip 4” in this demo).
Our iOS device’s Bluetooth Settings screen then changes to look something like the following.
At last we have now successfully paired our JBL Flip 4 Bluetooth speaker with our iPad iOS device.
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