I use a Bluetooth speaker during class so that instructor’s voice goes to my hearing aids. Was working perfectly for more than a year. Now other devices are trying to and often succeed in attaching to my Bluetooth s great and eliminate my instructors voice. Forget this device does not do that
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iPad, iPadOS 17
If you are using an external Bluetooth speaker, it is that speaker which controls when devices are allowed to pair with it. Not your iPhone. It sounds as if this speaker is operating in some mode where it is willing to accept new pairings from any and all devices.
What you want to do is to pair it with your iPhone, then take it out of pairing mode so that it will ignore the other devices. A lot of Bluetooth speakers would automatically exit pairing mode after the first pairing - you'd need to explicitly press some sort of button to get them to repair. For whatever reason, this one appears to be behaving differently, so I would suggest consulting its user manual.
Algonamary wrote:
Forget this device does not do that
"Forget this device" makes your iPhone forget its pairing with the Bluetooth speaker and stop using the speaker. That's under the iPhone's control, but in this case, is not what you want to do, because you're trying to achieve exactly the opposite (keeping the connection from the iPhone to the speaker while getting the speaker to reject connections from other devices).
How do I prevent other devices from connecting to my iPhone's Bluetooth speaker?
