When you scan for in-range Bluetooth speakers, a JBL Speaker shows up as its default BT name. But you can run though the JBL Speaker Change Name routine in the JBL Portable app, to give it a different Bluetooth name. Here, we outline how to do this, step by step. Note however that not all JBL speakers support this. But the Flips, Charges, Xtremes, and Boomboxes do.
First, install the Portable app on your Android or iOS mobile device. Then, turn on your speaker and pair your mobile device with it. Then, once you do all that, follow the routine below to change the JBL Speaker name. Afterwards, whenever you pair to this speaker, its name will appear as the new one in the source device.
JBL Speaker Change Name: Step by Step
1. Find the JBL Portable App on your Mobile Device
Firstly, we installed our copy in our custom Bluetooth Speakers folder.
2. Run That App
Tap the JBL Portable app icon.
The app then starts up with a splash screen as it searches for devices it supports to connect with.
Then, the app should find your speaker, and display for you its home page.
3. Scroll Down to Bottom of Page
You want to find the Product Information bar.
4. Tap the Product Information Bar to Continue with JBL Speaker Change Name
You should then see the Product Information screen for the paired JBL Speaker.
5. Tap the Rename My Product Bar
Then touching Rename My Product brings up the Rename My Product screen.
6. Edit the Name for the Paired JBL Speaker
Tap the edit box to get the cursor into this edit box.
7. Edit the Name Field
Then use the virtual keyboard to change the name to the new name.
So in this exercise, we change our example speaker from “JBL Flip 6” to “Tom’s Flip 6”.
First, we backspaced over the default name (“JBL Flip 6”).
Then, we typed in the new name, “Tom’s Flip 6”.
8. Tap the Orange Save Button When Finished Editing to Continue with JBL Speaker Change Name
Once you change the name to what you want, tap the blue Save button.
You then receive instructions on how to pair your speaker again with its new name.
9. Tap the Orange Close Link
This takes you back to the Product Information screen.
JBL Speaker Change Name: Pare to Its New Name: Step by Step
With your speaker still paired under its old speaker name, run through this routine. First, unpair the speaker. Then forget it in your mobile device. Finally, re pair it as its new name.
1. Power Down the JBL Speaker
This unpairs it from your mobile device.
2. Return your Mobile Device to its Home Screen
Press the Home button to close the JBL Product app, and reveal the mobile device’s Home screen.
3. Find the Settings App
So we find ours on the second page of the iOS home screen.
4. Bring up the Settings App to Continue with JBL Speaker Change Name
Next, tap the Settings app icon.
The mobile device then displays the first page of its settings, as shown next.
5. Go to Bluetooth Settings
Then our Bluetooth Settings screen displays as follows on our iPad Air tablet. Note that our Bluetooth is running here. But since we turned off our JBL Speaker, it shows as not connected.
6. Tap the JBL Speaker Info Button in the My Devices List
The JBL Speaker entry is the second item on the list. Furthermore, the info button is the circle with the lower case ‘i’ inside.
Then, the JBL Speaker device screen then appears.
7. Tap the Forget This Device Option
When you tap the Forget This Device link, you then get the Forget “JBL Flip 6” prompt.
8. Tap the Red Forget Device Button
Tapping Forget Device removes the JBL Speaker connection data from the mobile device. Thus, this stops this device from looking for the speaker with that name.
At any rate, after you tap that button, the Forget JBL Speaker window closes.
Then the system returns you to the previously paired Bluetooth devices list. But the old JBL Speaker entry is not there now.
9. Turn On your JBL Speaker
Turn on the speaker by quickly pressing its Power button.
The speaker then powers up.
But it now has a new Bluetooth name that presumably no other nearby Bluetooth devices know about. Thus it will not pair with anything. The dark Bluetooth button to the right of that, denotes this not-paired state.
10. Put your JBL Speaker into Pairing Mode to Continue with JBL Speaker Change Name
Now, to see your newly named speaker on your mobile device, place it into Bluetooth discovery / pairing mode. So you do this by pressing and releasing the Bluetooth button.
When you press the Bluetooth button, the 6 makes a repeating single pluck guitar note sound several times. Also, the Bluetooth button changes from dark to flashing white.
11. Find your JBL Speaker with its New Name on your Mobile Device
We found our speaker. Note that it appears here with its new Bluetooth device name.
12. Pair with your Newly Renamed JBL Speaker
Tap the listed speaker in the Other Devices portion of the Bluetooth devices list.
Your mobile device then pairs with the speaker with the new name (“Tom’s Flip 6” in this demo).
Then it’s Bluetooth Settings screen then changes as follows.
Note that this speaker has now moved from the Other Devices list to the My Devices list. Furthermore, its status now shows as Connected.
13. Done with JBL Speaker Change Name !
So we have now successfully renamed the Bluetooth device name of our speaker. We’ve also successfully paired it with a mobile device using that new name.
Note though, that the new name stays in effect until you do either of the following.
- Reset the speaker.
- Or change the name to something else.
JBL Speaker Change Name: Switch It Back to Its Default Name
Finally, you can restore the original (default) name. Do this by either resetting the speaker. Or, rename it back to the “JBL Flip 6” with the routine above.
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