How to Turn On or Off Bluetooth on iPhone

🗓️ May 14, 2025, By ✍️ Karly Wood

Turning Bluetooth on or off on an iPhone is a quick and essential task for managing wireless connections. Bluetooth enables you to connect to devices like headphones, speakers, and smartwatches. Whether you’re saving battery life or troubleshooting a connection, knowing how to control Bluetooth settings helps improve your iPhone’s functionality and your overall user experience.

Alternate ways to turn on/ off Bluetooth on iPhone, iPod Touch

Turn on / Turn off Bluetooth on iPhone in Settings App

  1. Launch Settings on your iOS device’s home screen.
  2. Tap on Bluetooth.
  3. Now turn the Bluetooth toggle onGreen.

Hopefully, your iOS device will now run Bluetooth.

That’s it.

If you want to turn off Bluetooth, follow the above steps and turn the Bluetooth toggle off.

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Enable/Disable Bluetooth on iPhone, iPod using Siri Command

Siri’s voice-activated Bluetooth feature is great. You should have turned Siri On on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod.

Follow the Bottom Steps To Turn on Siri on your Apple iPhone,

  • Go to the Settings App> Click Siri & Search > Turn toggle on “Listen for Hey Siri Siri” > A pop-up appear tap Enable Siri(Now Follow On-Screen instruction to activate Siri)> Also Turn toggle Press Side button for Siri.

To Wake up Siri by pressing and hold the iPhone Home button.

Now use a command for Siri ‘’Turn on Bluetooth’’. That will enable your iPhone Bluetooth that you appear on the below screen.

To make disable/turn off Bluetooth using Siri follow the above steps and give Siri command – ‘’Turn Off Bluetooth’’.

Turn on / Turn Off Bluetooth on iPhone Using Control Center

Control center is a user-friendly shortcut feature for iOS users. That delivers shortcut path to control many common functions of iPhone like Airplane mode, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Do not disturb, rotate the screen, display brightness control, Airdrop, Volume control, Music forward/backward, Flashlight, World Clock, Night Shift Mode, Calculator, and Camera. In the short term, the control center has reduced the use of the hardware.

To turn on Control Center, Go Settings > Control Center > Turn on Access on Lock Screen and turn on Access within Apps.

Turn on Bluetooth using 3D touch on iPhone

By the way, 3D touch iPhone (iPhone 8, iPhone 7 Plus, iPhone 7, iPhone 6S Plus and iPhone 6S) users also use peek-pop shortcut way to turn on Bluetooth.

NoteEnable 3D touch on iPhone first,

Deeply force touch on the Settings App icon and choose Bluetooth, it will let you directly on the Bluetooth settings screen.

Turn on /Turn Off Bluetooth on iPhone,iPad using the Control center shortcut way

Swipe up the screen from the bottom side and tap on the Bluetooth icon right side of Wi-Fi to disable/enable Bluetooth.

You can see the bluetooth toggle in the control center given below screen.

You’re done!

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Karly Wood
Karly Wood

Karly Wood is a journalist based in Ohio who specializes in covering Apple and technology trends. With a varied experience in reporting on public safety, government, and education, her insights bridge multiple disciplines, providing readers with a well-rounded perspective on today's technological advancements. If you need to contact me, you can reach me at karlywood.ohio@gmail.com or through (Facebook)

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