iPhone localhost bluetooth
After changing iPhone settings (for example, to enable Tethering) your iPhone bluetooth identifier may change to localhost. Since that is not a very descriptive name, you probably want to change it. You can do it by following these steps (they may be overkill, but it worked like this for me):
- Remove the Bluetooth device localhost.
- Connect your iPhone to iTunes.
- Wait for it to sync (if you haven't set it to automatically sync, you can skip this step).
- In iTunes, find your iPhone in the left sidebar. Click the name of your iPhone once. It will become editable.
- Change the iPhone's name to something else (I just appended the letter 'x'). Press Enter. Your iPhone's screen will very briefly show "Synchronizing".
- Change the iPhone's name back to its original name. Press Enter. iPhone screen will again briefly show "Synchronizing".
- Start Bluetooth, connect and configure your iPhone, it will show the name you gave it in the previous step.
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