Yes, VW Golf, it’s paired with that. Should have thought of it but brain drowned in cortisol, not working properly.
I have worked out why I can’t see his iPhone in FMI, he has a separate Apple ID. I can see his MacBook Air because we both use it. When we updated the OS, I set it up and it assumed I was the boss and entered my email that is used for our shared Apple ID. . Thanks for your help. Best wishes from Diana Sent from my iPad > On 29 Mar 2018, at 2:49 pm, Ronda Brown <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Diana, > Rob has already sorted the Hotspot connection for you. > > This “VW BT 3209” you are concerned about. Do you have a VW (a Volkswagen > car)? > This looks like when you pair your iPhone - Connect iPhone to VW Bluetooth? > > Cheers, > Ronni > > Ronni Brown’s iPad Pro 12.9-inch 256GB > > >> On 29 Mar 2018, at 10:44 am, Diana & Graham Stevens <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> Thanks Rob >> >> I had already restarted the iPhone with no effect. This time I turned off >> absolutely everything even eMac and G4 tower which don’t appear in FMI. Did >> not go as far as disconnecting power. Rebooted modem and Time Capsule. >> Turned on iPad, iPhone. Bluetooth shows only the iPhone. Hopefully all hunky >> dory. >> >> Still don’t understand why FMI does not show the iPhone. >> >> Thanks so much, I can have breakfast now and start my day. >> >> Best wishes from Diana >> Sent from my iPad >> >>> On 29 Mar 2018, at 9:23 am, Rob Phillips <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> restart all devices? >>> >>> Sent from OPPO Mail >>> On Diana & Graham Stevens <[email protected]>, 29 Mar 2018 9:14 a.m. >>> wrote: >>> I have decided I can’t do without WAMUG, I shall pay my dues today. >>> >>> If this is a bit garbled please bear with me, I am very depressed, any >>> fellow sufferers will know this means no ability to concentrate, accident >>> prone etc. >>> >>> Present problem, I needed to use my iPad away from home. Set up Graham’s >>> iPhone as hot spot, turned off wifi on iPad to do it. Turned wifi on again. >>> Did not need to use the iPad after all, left it at home, this was on >>> Tuesday. >>> >>> All well until today, iPhone tells me to turn on wifi for better location >>> services. Didn’t think I had turned it off. Hit the button, I can’t >>> remember what it said but whatever it was I assumed it would turn wifi on. >>> I cursed myself for using 4G for lengthy phone calls but it was necessary >>> because our landline has had an intermittent fault for over 2 weeks, off >>> 50% of time, Telstra technician hasn’t been able to solve it. >>> >>> Connection unsuccessful. Message make sure “VW BT 3209” is turned on and in >>> range. >>> >>> But it is connected, icons for Telstra and wifi. I have no idea what this >>> device is. >>> >>> Looked in Bluetooth which shows both my iPad and this device as >>> unconnected. I get the equivalent message to above. But Find my iPhone on >>> my iPad shows my iPad and my old iPad 4 as connected. No mention of foreign >>> device. >>> >>> Find my iPhone on the iPhone, logged me out for my own protection, logged >>> in again, it shows my two iPads, the iPhone doesn’t appear. >>> >>> At one stage I managed to select the foreign device (I can’t remember how). >>> Forget this device was greyed out, I tried to Sync contacts, the only other >>> option got the same error message. >>> >>> On my iPad the only device in Bluetooth is the iPhone. >>> >>> I turned off Bluetooth on the iPhone, powered down and restarted. Unknown >>> device still there. >>> >>> Should I turn Bluetooth off, if warns me against it? >>> >>> The only other thing that might be relevant is that I noticed Graham has >>> not turned on Two-Factor Authentication. >>> >>> I haven’t a clue what to do next nor whether this has serious implications. >>> Any suggestions? >>> >>> Regards Diana >>> >>> Sent from my iPad >>> > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Settings & Unsubscribe - > <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
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