How to Connect Bose Headphones to Mac | Easily

Got a new Bose Bluetooth headphone? Great! You may want to connect it to your Mac computer to enjoy music or videos. But just wondering how? Don’t worry. It’s a doddle.

This guide is going to walk you through how to connect your Bose Bluetooth headphones with your Mac computer step by step. Besides, you’ll learn how to fix if your Mac computer can’t find your Bose headphone. Read on to see how…

How to connect your Bose headphones to your Mac computer?

Before we start, please make sure there’s no any other Bluetooth audio device currently connected to your Mac computer. Then go through the following steps:

1. Power on your Bose Bluetooth headphones.
2. On your Mac computer, click the Apple icon on menu bar, then select System Preferences…

   

3. Click the Bluetooth icon.

   

4. If the status shows Turn Bluetooth On, click it to turn on Bluetooth on your computer;If the status shows Turn Bluetooth Off, then Bluetooth is already on on your computer.

   

5. Your Mac computer will search your Bose Bluetooth headphones automatically.

   

   When your Bose headphones shows up, click the Connect button.

   

   Your headphones would then be connected successfully to your Mac computer.

6. Click the back icon on the Bluetooth window.

7. Click Sound.
   

8. Click your Bose headphones under the Output pane, then adjust the volume to your comfortable level.

   

How to fix if your Mac computer doesn’t find your Bose headphones?

If your Mac computer keeps searching devices but still can’t find your Bose headphones, follow these steps to clear the pairing list of your headphone:

1. Power off your headphone.
2. Press and hold down the Power icon for at least 10 mins, until you hear “Bluetooth device list cleared“.
3. Remove your Bose headphones from the previous devices it connected to. You Mac computer now should find your Bose headphones without problems.

If unfortunately, your Bose headphones still doesn’t show up on your Mac computer, you can download the Bose Connect app on your smart phone to solve the problem.

By April Cai

April, a Microsoft Certified Professional(MCP), aims to make readers' tech life easy and enjoyable. She's passionate about helping people solve their computer, phone & app woes. That's not giving you a lot of detail, is it? So read more from the following articles.

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