The free Bose Connect app lets you access additional product features and easily adjust product settings from your mobile device. Find out which products work with the app and how to get it.
Your Bluetooth®-enabled mobile or audio devices can easily connect to your product via NFC (Near-Field Communication). Learn how to pair Bluetooth devices to your product.
Your product can integrate with fitness apps to share information. You can now take advantage of your favorite compatible health app to monitor your exercise routine and enjoy other health features.
Your product can integrate with fitness apps to share information. You can now take advantage of your favorite compatible health app to monitor your exercise routine and enjoy other health features.
Your product can integrate with fitness apps to share information. You can now take advantage of your favorite compatible health app to monitor your exercise routine and enjoy other health features.
Your Bose product can answer, end and control phone call-related functions. This lets you conveniently take phone calls without accessing the controls on your mobile device.
Your product remembers the last several Bluetooth devices it was connected to so that it can quickly and automatically reconnect to them. Removing this device memory forgets all remembered devices and allows you to start a new list of devices by connecting the ones you want remembered.
You can give your Bose product a different name. This can be helpful, for example, to identify your product when multiple Bluetooth® products are listed in an app or device menu.
You can mute the microphone using the headphones themselves instead of relying on your phone.
The Bose Connect app lets you access product settings and advanced features from your mobile device. This allows quick, convenient, intuitive access to product features.
The transport controls of your product (i.e. play/pause, stop and skip forward/back) can control the audio playing on the connected device. This is useful to conveniently control playback of the connected device right from your Bose product.
If you have an Apple iOS device, you can close your My Bose account from the Bose app (this option is not available for Android devices). Closing your account will delete your entire My Bose account. You will not be able to access any Bose services or applications where you sign in with that account. This includes the SoundTouch app, the Bose Connect app, and the Bose app for smart soundbars and speakers. You may also lose some features of your Bose products that require these services or applications.
Your product can integrate with fitness apps to share information. You can now take advantage of your favorite compatible health app to monitor your exercise routine and enjoy other health features.
Your product can integrate with fitness apps to share information. You can now take advantage of your favorite compatible health app to monitor your exercise routine and enjoy other health features.
Your product can integrate with fitness apps to share information. You can now take advantage of your favorite compatible health app to monitor your exercise routine and enjoy other health features.
Find out how to quickly power on your product when you're ready to use it and power it off when it's not in use.
Your product can integrate with fitness apps to share information. You can now take advantage of your favorite compatible health app to monitor your exercise routine and enjoy other health features.
Your product can integrate with fitness apps to share information. You can now take advantage of your favorite compatible health app to monitor your exercise routine and enjoy other health features.
Your product can integrate with fitness apps to share information. You can now take advantage of your favorite compatible health app to monitor your exercise routine and enjoy other health features.
When you open the Bose app and connect your headphones, you should see the heart rate icon animate while the headphones are looking for your heart rate. Once heart rate is detected, you will hear "heart rate detected" in the headphones, and the heart rate icon changes to the heart rate number. The left earbud optical sensor must make contact with the skin to read the heart rate.
A reset can reboot your product or it can clear locally-stored product settings, such as paired device lists. Find out which option is available to reset your product.
Serial numbers contain important information about your product, including model number and DOM (Date of Manufacture). The serial number can be found on your product, product packaging or app (if applicable).
Software and firmware updates improve product features and stability. Install any available updates to keep your product working at its best.
Installing the latest product and/or app updates ensures you experience the latest features and stability enhancements. Find out how to check the version of your product.
A computer remembers Bluetooth devices that were previously connected so it can quickly and easily reconnect to them. Removing this device memory forgets all currently stored devices and allows you to start a new list by connecting only the devices you want remembered.
Computers have their own volume control. Learn how to set the volume level of a computer for use with your Bose system.
Your Bluetooth®-enabled mobile or audio devices can easily connect to your product via NFC (Near-Field Communication). Learn how to pair Bluetooth devices to your product.
Your product remembers the last several Bluetooth devices it was paired to so that it can quickly and automatically reconnect to them. This is useful if your product connects to a different device when you turn it on, or if you just want to switch to a different device.
Multi-point is a feature that allows your product to connect to more than one Bluetooth device. This is useful to switch between two smartphones without disconnecting and reconnecting each time.
Find out how to wirelessly pair your product to a Bluetooth device, like a smartphone or computer. This lets you control the sound you hear from your product.
Computers let you select where you want sound play from, like a Bluetooth® speaker, headphones, internal computer speakers, or another connected audio device. Find out how to select the audio output device you want to hear.
A computer can show a list of Bluetooth devices that were previously paired and stored to memory. This memory helps the computer quickly reconnect to remembered devices.
If you own more than one Bose Bluetooth speaker or headphones, find information about connecting them together.
Find out how to use the Bose app to wirelessly pair your product to a Bluetooth device, like a smartphone or computer. This lets you control the sound you hear from your product.
Music Share allows you to play music from a music app (i.e. Spotify, Pandora, device storage, etc.) and share the music you're listening to with another compatible Bose Music Share product. This way, two products can play the same audio at the same time.
Find out what the LED indicator light on your product tells you about the status of your product.
Your product offers multiple different voice prompt language selections so you can hear audible messages from your product in your preferred language.
Your product remembers the last several Bluetooth devices it was connected to so that it can quickly and automatically reconnect to them. Removing this device memory forgets all remembered devices and allows you to start a new list of devices by connecting the ones you want remembered.
The audible voice prompts that your system announce (e.g. battery status and connection prompts) can be turned on or off, depending on your preference.
Find out how to select or unsubscribe from communications you receive from Bose, like emails and app notifications.
When you open the Bose app and connect your headphones, you should see the heart rate icon animate while the headphones are looking for your heart rate. Once heart rate is detected, you will hear "heart rate detected" in the headphones, and the heart rate icon changes to the heart rate number. The left earbud optical sensor must make contact with the skin to read the heart rate.
Find out how to check the battery level of your product using the product lights or the Bose app, if applicable.
Find out how to charge the battery in your headphones so you can use them on the go.
The automatic power off setting lets your product automatically turn off and enter standby if it is not in use for a period of time. This is useful, for example, to conserve power in case your product is accidentally left powered on.
Find out how to quickly power on your product when you're ready to use it and power it off when it's not in use.
This article outlines software and firmware release dates. It includes release features and bug fixes.
You can use the Bose product update at btu.Bose.com to update compatible Bose products. This web-based updater is an easy way to keep your product up-to-date with the latest features and improvements. Find out which computers and web browsers are compatible with the updater.
Your product plays tones or beeps to indicate various product status (i.e. powering on or off, connecting or disconnecting Bluetooth®, low battery, etc.). Find out what the different sounds mean.