JBL Go 2 Pairing

JBL Go 2 wireless speaker, top view, showing its Bluetooth Pairing button circled.

This routine for JBL Go 2 pairing works with iOS devices such as iPhone iPod iPad tablets. Begin with your Go 2 OFF (dark front panel LED). Then, follow this recipe to pair your Bluetooth speaker to said devices. We demonstrate thus here with an iPad Air tablet. But the BT connection details are roughly the same for other iOS and Android based devices. The pairing screens may appear different across the various devices however.

JBL Go 2 Pairing: Step by Step

1. Visit the Home Screen on your Device

Firstly, press the Home button to get to the Home page. See our Home screen as pictured next.

2. Find the Settings App

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

iPad Home screen showing the Settings app.

3. Bring up the Settings App

Thirdly, tap the Settings app icon.

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

The iOS Settings screen with Bluetooth active, showing the Bluetooth item.

4. Go to the Bluetooth Settings Page to Continue with JBL Go 2 Pairing

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

Our Bluetooth Settings screen the appears as follows. Note that our Bluetooth is running here. But since the speaker is currently OFF, it does not appear. We see it in neither the My Devices nor Other Devices lists yet, Why? Because we’ve never paired it with this device prior. Plus, the speaker is not yet broadcasting its connection information.

The previously paired Bluetooth devices list.

Note in this picture that there’s no JBL Go 2 listed yet.

5. Turn On your JBL Go 2

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

JBL Go 2 speaker, top view, showing the -Power- button.

The speaker then comes on.

But since our iPad does not know about this speaker, the Go 2 will not pair with it by itself. The light that glows in the front grill denotes this not-paired state by blinking white as we see next.

Front view of the speaker, with the Status lamp glowing white.

6. Start Up Pairing Mode

Now, to see the speaker on your iOS phone or tablet, start up Bluetooth pairing mode. To do that, press and release the Bluetooth button.

The -Bluetooth Pairing- button.

When you press the Pairing button, the speaker makes a repeating single pluck guitar note sound several times. Plus, the front panel status lamp changes from a solid white to flashing white. See this in the last picture above.

7. Find your JBL Go 2 on your Mobile Device

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

iOS Bluetooth Settings page, showing the JBL Go 2 speaker, discovered but not paired.

8. Pair with the Speaker to Continue with JBL Go 2 Pairing

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

Your mobile device then pairs with the Go 2 JBL (appears as “JBL Go 2” in this demo).

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

The JBL Go 2 paired, successfully connected.

Note that the Go 2 speaker now shows as connected, as shown inside the green oval in the last picture.

9. Done with JBL Go 2 Pairing !

Finally, we have now successfully paired our JBL Go 2 Bluetooth speaker with a mobile device. Audio output from that device now plays on this wireless speaker, which presumably, is what you want. Enjoy!