How to temporarily disconnect Oticon OPNs from iPhone?

Actually this approach that you suggested ( stop streaming) is much better than disconnecting (even though there isn’t one). So Apple has thought ahead and gave us the right option. Only if they’d give us a short cut to do this instead of having to wade through many settings pages to get there.

TexasBob, Volusiano, moccasin, MrAerodynamic: Thanks again for your answers and explanations. I actually printed them out. Brings to mind the “simple questions don’t always have simple answers” adage.

Volusiano, thank you for the clarification. My Siemens Pures were not “Made for iPhone” so I suppose that’s why they show up and the Oticons don’t. Sorry if I misled anyone.

The quickest way to turn off bluetooth is to swipe up from the bottom of your phone and look for this ICON:

Tap it to turn bluetooth off. Do the same thing to turn it back on.

The original question is not really how to turn off Bluetooth but how to temporarily disconnect the OPN. If the OP wants to disconnect the OPN to use another Bluetooth device then turning off Bluetooth won’t work to use another Bluetooth device.

Just clarifying. But I agree that the suggested method above is the fastest way to turn off Bluetooth. That’s what I do when I want to use the iPhone’s loudspeaker.

He never said why he wants to disconnect. He may, indeed, want to use another Bluetooth device. If so, then there is another way to re-route streaming to another device. However, that is not what he asked.

I simply didn’t read anything into his question.

Thanks again to all who have responded to my original post. In spite of wearing HAs for over 35 years, I’m just now trialing Oticon OPNs paired to my iPhone, so I’m in a learning mode.

To try to answer questions as to why I think I sometimes want to disconnect the pairing: 1) I’ve read that HA battery drains much faster when Bluetooth is activated. I don’t always carry my iPhone, but I usually leave it on most of the time. I don’t use Bluetooth for anything else. So I presumed it to be prudent to disconnect when I’m away from my iPhone for a few hours. And based on your responses, I assume that simply turning off Bluetooth is the easiest way to accomplish that. 2) While this probably happens infrequently, suppose I want to ask a colleague, “Listen to Mary’s voicemail on my phone. Can you figure out what she wants?” Or, “Listen to this song by the Screaming Zombies that I just downloaded from iTunes.” In each case, I need to switch from HAs to iPhone speaker. And in each case I can see that there are multiple ways to accomplish this.

Please let me know if what I’ve said here reflects a misunderstanding.

If I understand correctly…the mere fact of having the bluetooth radio on at any end can consume some power at that end. Certainly when it’s actively moving data from one device to another it would use more power.
Some might argue that the idle, waiting to connect mode would barely use any power and that it effectively auto shuts off. But it’s still on. Waiting.

On my smartphone (not iphone) I turn off all the radios when I’m not using them. Cell data, bluetooth, NFC, GPS, wifi. If I need something from one I’ll turn its radio on. Then off again.

All of this applies to both ends. I believe there’s an airplane mode like with a cell phone that you can fully turn off the bluetooth radio on the HA’s.

But hey what do I know? I don’t have an iphone or streamer device.

MFi doesn’t use BT it uses BTLe (low energy) and the drain is a fraction of what BT would use. Streaming is the real drain with BTLe aka MFi.

The others have given you good answers. To let someone else listen to Mary’s voicemail, you could turn off Bluetooth as I said before, or there is another way…

Swipe up as I said before and you’ll get a screen similar to this:

In that top right box, tap on the little blue arcs. That will bring up something like this:

Touch “iPhone” and your colleague can listen to your phone.

I hope this helps.

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TexasBob, I tried that and it works. Thanks.

Thoroughly informative reply. Thanks!

TexasBob Thank you so much! Who knew??? Little secrets revealed. I can’t wait to test this.
I am constantly swiping BT on / off between IPad and IPhone - this trick should help.

Interesting. I don’t have those little blue arcs on my top right box, but if I press in that corner nevertheless, it still does take me to the music player page just the same.

I knew about the Control page by swiping up, but I didn’t know about that option to control which output in the music box. So thanks, I learn something useful today!

You can turn off bluetooth in your phone, but it is easier to put you hearing aids in "airplane mode"
Hold down the button on either aid for 10 seconds. That disconect your bluetooth aids only, not you phone so you can still use you car bluetooth system

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But I don’t think Airplane Mode enables the iPhone to be used in a conventional fashion, which was one of my OP objectives articulated a few posts ago.

He’s talking about putting your OPNs in “airplane mode”, not your iPhone.

In other words, turning off Bluetooth Low Energy on the aids, so your iPhone no longer sees them.

Understood. I misinterpreted. Thanks.

Thank you MrAerodynamic! I too had an issue disconnecting my bt from my iPhone and Minirite HAs. Your solution did the job. I must say I do like the OPN when working out or doing chores around th house!

Opening the battery door will disconnect from the phone.