Ultimate Ears Pairing Explained

Top view of the Wonderboom 3 and its dark Bluetooth Pairing button.

This post offers general Ultimate Ears pairing instructions. Start with your speaker powered OFF (all dark LEDs). Then, follow these steps to pair it with most any Bluetooth source device. In this demo, we show how this pairing works on an iPad Air tablet with a Wonderboom speaker. But a like routine works for iPhones, iPods, and Android phones and tablets too. This pairing procedure works with other Ultimate Ears models as well, like the Blast, Boom, Megaboom, Megablast, and Roll series BT speakers.

Ultimate Ears Pairing Directions, Step by Step

1. Visit the Home Screen on your Bluetooth Device

Press the Home button to get to the Home page. See our Home screen as shown next on our iPad.

2. Find the iPad Settings App

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

iPad Home Screen with Settings App Highlighted.

3. Bring up the Settings App

Tap the Settings app icon.

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

iOS Settings screen on iPad Air, with Bluetooth turned ON screen showing, and the Bluetooth item highlighted.

4. Go to the Bluetooth Settings Page to Continue with Ultimate Ears Pairing

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

Our Bluetooth Settings screen then appears as follows. Note that we switched ON our Bluetooth on this tablet. But since the Ultimate Ears we’re pairing is currently OFF, it does not show in either the My Devices or Other Devices lists on the tablet yet, Why? Because we’ve never paired it with this iPad before. Plus, the speaker is not yet broadcasting its BT connection info. This looks something like as shown next.

iPad Air tablet showing previously paired Bluetooth devices list.

Note in this picture that no Ultimate Ears appears just yet.

5. Power Up your Ultimate Ears

Turn on the speaker by rapidly pressing its Power button.

See this button, circled in green, in the next picture.

The speaker powered OFF, top view, showing the -Power- button circled.

The speaker then comes on.

An Ultimate Ears, powered ON, showing the top view, with the glowing -Power- button circled.

6. Put your Ultimate Ears into Pairing Mode

Now, to see your speaker on your source Bluetooth device, place it into BT pairing mode. For that, press and release the Pairing button, as circled in the next picture.

An Ultimate Ears model, top view, showing its -Bluetooth- button circled.

When you press this Pairing button, the speaker makes an offbeat but cool pairing sound. Plus, a lamp in this button starts rapidly flashing white. See this in the last picture above.

7. Find your Ultimate Ears on your iPad Air

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

iOS Bluetooth Settings page, showing the speaker as discovered But not paired, circled.

8. Pair with your Ultimate Ears Unit

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

Your iPad Air then pairs with the Ultimate Ears (appears here as “WONDERBOOM” in this demo).

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

iOS Bluetooth Settings page, Showing the Ultimate Ears as paired.

Note that the Ultimate Ears now shows as paired, as circled inside the green oval in the last picture.

9. Done with Ultimate Ears Pairing !

We have now successfully paired our Ultimate Ears with a test iPad Air iOS device. Audio output from that iPad now plays on this wireless speaker, which is what you want. Pairing like this works with most other Bluetooth source devices as well.