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How to connect your Android phone or an iPhone to an Amazon Echo smart spea
How to connect your Android phone or an iPhone to an Amazon Echo smart speaker
In addition to playing music and managing a bunch of smart home devices, your Echo speaker can act as an audio output device for your smartphone. That’s right, you can connect your Android phone or an iPhone to your Echo speaker via Bluetooth to use it as a speaker. You can then use the Echo speaker to play media files that are stored on your phone or while watching a movie or a TV show. In case you wondering how to set that up, then here’s a step-by-step guide explaining how to connect your Android phone or an iPhone to Amazon Echo: Navigate this article:
Before you can connect your Echo speaker to your Android phone or an iPhone, you’ll first have to make sure the speaker is set up and ready to go, meaning it’s registered to your account and is online. If you are new to the world of Echo speakers, then here’s how you can do it:
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The setup process for your Echo speaker is the same for both Android phones and iPhones, so you can follow the steps and screenshots shown above regardless of the phone you have. Once your Echo speaker is set up and ready to go, you can now follow the steps mentioned in the sections below to connect your Android phone or an iPhone to an Echo speaker. How to connect your Android phone to Amazon Echo Before you can connect your Android phone to an Amazon Echo speaker, you need to make sure the speaker itself is registered to your network and is ready for a connection. If you navigated directly to this particular step without setting your Echo speaker then follow the steps mentioned in How to set up your Amazon Echo speaker section above, before connecting your Android phone.
You can now use your Echo device as a Bluetooth speaker for your Android phone. Also, the next time you want to connect your phone to the speakers via Bluetooth, you can simply ask Alexa to connect to your phone. In this case, we can just, “Alexa, connect to Karthik’s S22 via Bluetooth” to connect instead of going through a manual process. How to connect your iPhone to Amazon Echo To connect your iPhone to an Amazon Echo speaker, you first have to make sure your speaker is set up and ready to go. If it’s not, then follow the steps mentioned in the How to set up your Amazon Echo speaker section above to register your speaker to the network. Once the speaker is online, follow these simple steps to connect your iPhone to the Echo speaker via Bluetooth:
And that’s it, you’ve now successfully connected your iPhone to your Echo speaker, meaning it’s now ready to output audio from your iPhone. We used an Echo Dot 4th gen speaker in this tutorial, but the process is essentially the same for all the Echo speakers. Alternatively, you can also connect your Android phone or iPhone to your Echo speaker using a 3.5mm cable. A lot of the new Android and iOS devices, however, don’t have a headphone jack, so you may not be able to use this method without a dongle.
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