JBL Charge 5 wireless speaker, top view, showing the -Power- and -Bluetooth- buttons lit.
Gives pairing JBL Charge 5 directions. So these work on Bluetooth devices like the iPhone, iPod Touch, and the iPad Apple products. Moreover, a routine with some small variation also works for Android phones and tablets.
With your Charge 5 OFF (power button is dark), run through this routine to pair it to your mobile device. So we run with an iPad Air tablet for this demo.
Firstly, press the Home button to uncover the mobile device’s Home screen.
Then we find ours on the second page of our Home screen.
Tap the Settings app icon.
The source device then displays the first page of its settings, as shown in the next step.
Then the Bluetooth Settings screen displays. Note that our Bluetooth is active here. But since this speaker is currently OFF, it does not appear in the Bluetooth Devices list. Also, we don’t see it since we’ve never paired this speaker with this iPad Air before. See this as shown in this list of previously paired Bluetooth devices.
Switch on the 5 by quickly pressing its Power button. See this pointed at by the green arrow in the next picture.
The speaker then boots and comes on.
But since our iPad does not know about this particular speaker, it will not pair with it automatically.
The light in the Power switch then comes on white. Furthermore, this glowing Power button denotes this not-paired state as shown next.
So to see your JBL Charge 5 on your source device, put it into discovery mode. To do that, press and release the Pairing button.
When you press the Bluetooth Pairing button, the speaker makes a repeating single pluck guitar note sound several times. Also, that same button starts flashing white.
We find our speaker, as pointed at by the green arrow, as shown next.
Tap the listed speaker in the Other Devices section of the Bluetooth devices list, shown above.
Your mobile device then pairs with the speaker (“JBL Charge 5” in this demo).
The device’s Bluetooth Settings screen then changes to look something like the following.
Note that the JBL Charge 5 now shows as connected.
At last we have successfully paired this portable speaker with our iPadOS device. Again, this procedure also applies when pairing with Apple iPhone and iPod devices. However the screen faces may differ slightly on the iPhone.
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