iPhone 18 Pro, Bluetooth, and CQ-20B

CQ CQ Troubleshooting
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I’ve owned a CQ-20B since early this year and have used it regularly with a musical theatre company for rehearsals, as a small venue mixer, and as a mobile recording rig for a variety of projects associated with a local recording studio. It has been a fantastic tool that I’ve used both as a standalone device and as an audio interface. Quirks that have shown up have generally been manageable, but this one has me stumped:

It simply won’t show up as a Bluetooth audio destination with my new iPhone 18 Pro. It’s like it isn’t there at all, even though my MacBook Pro and iPhone 15 Pro both see it and have no issues connecting. All three devices are on the latest corresponding 27.0.1 operating systems.

Has anyone else seen something similar?

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I think the CQ turns the Bluetooth back to non-discoverable at some point (guessing a power off/on but don’t remember) as a safety feature. Any chance you forgot to set it to discoverable? I forgot once after not having connected anything for a while before I remembered…so it’s easy to do. I was annoyed/confused for a bit before my “D’Oh” moment :slight_smile: