{"id":55319,"date":"2016-04-12T10:00:25","date_gmt":"2016-04-12T09:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/?p=55319"},"modified":"2021-07-16T15:01:02","modified_gmt":"2021-07-16T14:01:02","slug":"how-to-connect-your-iphone-se-to-your-car-stereo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/2016\/04\/how-to-connect-your-iphone-se-to-your-car-stereo\/","title":{"rendered":"How to connect your iPhone SE to your car stereo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-55340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/maxresdefault-1.jpg\" alt=\"maxresdefault\" width=\"754\" height=\"424\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/maxresdefault-1.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/maxresdefault-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/maxresdefault-1-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/maxresdefault-1-450x253.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/maxresdefault-1-730x410.jpg 730w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 754px) 100vw, 754px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We all love listening to our own music while driving, whether it&#8217;s on our daily commute to the office, going on holiday, or simply popping down the road to buy milk. If you want to listen to the music from your iPhone SE, it&#8217;s really easy to blast it out of you car\u2019s stereo and speakers \u2013 which are much louder and higher quality than the iPhone\u2019s SE&#8217;s tiny speaker.<\/p>\n<p>It shouldn&#8217;t be too hard to, but there are loads of different types of cars and speaker systems out there. Here are our favourite methods in order of convenience:<\/p>\n<h3>1. Connect with Bluetooth<\/h3>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve bought a car in the last few years you&#8217;ll probably have a modern stereo system with built-in Bluetooth functionality. If this is the case, all you need to do is switch on your iPhone SE&#8217;s Bluetooth by swiping up from the bottom of the screen and selecting the Bluetooth button. From here it will depend\u00a0on which stereo system you have in your car, but all of them will require you to put them in &#8216;pairing mode&#8217; while it looks for you iPhone SE.<\/p>\n<h3>2. Use an FM transmitter<\/h3>\n<p>If you don&#8217;t have a Bluetooth-enabled car, don&#8217;t worry you don&#8217;t need to buy an entirely new stereo system &#8211; just an FM transmitter adapter. This clever little gadget makes use of your car&#8217;s ability to play music from the radio and uses a similar process\u00a0but with your phone instead. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/olixar-smartune-bluetooth-fm-transmitter-45379\">Olixar Smartune Bluetooth FM transmitter<\/a> connects to your phone using a 3.5 audio cable or Bluetooth\u00a0and then transmits the audio to a frequency of your choice. Then all you need to do is tune into that frequency as if it was your very own radio station.<\/p>\n<h3>3. Use a 3.5mm audio cable to an AUX audio input<\/h3>\n<p>Usually, car stereos include 3.5mm audio ports which make it very easy to connect the iPhone SE. Simply get a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/pama-3-5mm-to-3-5mm-aux-audio-cable-1-2m-black-7594\">3.5mm audio cable<\/a>, then connect one end to your iPhone\u2019s headphone jack, and the other to the 3.5mm AUX input on your stereo.<\/p>\n<h3>4. Use a tape deck adapter<\/h3>\n<p>Maybe your car doesn&#8217;t have any of things &#8211; in which case there is still hope if your car has a tape deck. Yes, that&#8217;s right if your car has a tape deck you can use a special cassette shaped adapter that plugs into your phone. It is basically tricking your car into thinking the music is being played from a cassette, but really it is on your phone!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Anything we missed?<\/strong><br \/>\nThanks for checking out the article. If you have any questions that we didn\u2019t answer or you\u2019re confused about something, let us know. You can reach us by the comments below, or talk to us on Twitter @mobilefun.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/apple\/iphone-se\/cases\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-59127\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/iphone-se-cases-v3-4.jpg\" alt=\"iphone-se-cases-v3\" width=\"730\" height=\"173\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/iphone-se-cases-v3-4.jpg 730w, https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/iphone-se-cases-v3-4-300x71.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/iphone-se-cases-v3-4-450x107.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 730px) 100vw, 730px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n\n<!-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v. 2.0.27.4 -->\n<div class=\"quads-location quads-ad1\" id=\"quads-ad1\" style=\"float:none;margin:0px 0 0px 0;text-align:center;\">\n<div id=\"bari-widget\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We all love listening to our own music while driving, whether it&#8217;s on our daily commute to the office, going on holiday, or simply popping down the road to buy milk. 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