# iPhone - watching movies/listening to music with bluetooth headset?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iphone-watching-movies-listening-to-music-with-bluetooth-headset/436239>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [February 4, 2008, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iphone-watching-movies-listening-to-music-with-bluetooth-headset/436239 "2008-02-04T18:09:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![chaoticbear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f07891/32.png) [@chaoticbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chaoticbear)\
**Post date:** [February 4, 2008, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iphone-watching-movies-listening-to-music-with-bluetooth-headset/436239/1 "2008-02-04T18:09:43Z")

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I’m trying to watch a movie and have the audio come out of the bluetooth headset, which seems simple. I know when I’m on a call, I can watch a movie and have the audio also come through the headset (and the other person can hear it too!)

Is there any way to do this?

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**Author:** ![flex727](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/258eb7/32.png) [@flex727](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flex727)\
**Post date:** [February 5, 2008, 11:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iphone-watching-movies-listening-to-music-with-bluetooth-headset/436239/2 "2008-02-05T11:42:51Z")

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[QUOTE=chaoticbear]  
I’m trying to watch a movie and have the audio come out of the bluetooth headset, which seems simple. I know when I’m on a call, I can watch a movie and have the audio also come through the headset (and the other person can hear it too!)

Is there any way to do this?  
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Unfortunately, the iPhone lacks the A2DP Bluetooth protocol which would allow this. There is some sort of hack that will give you mono sound over the iPhone Bluetooth, but I think that’s pretty unsatisfactory. You can plug a Bluetooth adapter or FM transmitter into the headphone jack to do what you want, but that can interfere with ease of phone calls.

I desperately want this as well and am hoping it will become available with a future SW update.

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**Author:** ![chaoticbear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f07891/32.png) [@chaoticbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chaoticbear)\
**Post date:** [February 5, 2008, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iphone-watching-movies-listening-to-music-with-bluetooth-headset/436239/3 "2008-02-05T14:25:07Z")

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Mono sound is fine. I’m no audiophile. How do I go about doing it? I’ve updated to version 1.1.3, so I don’t know if I’d be able to. If I restore factory settings, will that roll it back to 1.1.2?

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**Author:** ![flex727](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/258eb7/32.png) [@flex727](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flex727)\
**Post date:** [February 5, 2008, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iphone-watching-movies-listening-to-music-with-bluetooth-headset/436239/4 "2008-02-05T14:47:34Z")

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You’ll have research this a bit on the internets, but here is a link to get you started. I’m not sure which SW version is needed for the hack and, apparently, the music will also come out the iPhone’s built-in speaker as well as Bluetooth, so if all that doesn’t dissuade you, [here you go](http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/07/09/29/iphone_1_1_1_bug_lets_you_stream_music_to_bluetooth_headsets.html).