Automatically connect your Bluetooth devices with Fast Pair

When you connect with Fast Pair, your Bluetooth accessories are associated with your Google Account. Your other connected devices can recognize newly added accessories and prompt you to pair with the accessories automatically.

Connect with Fast Pair

1. Open your device's Settings app.
2. Tap your profile All services.
3. Under “Connected devices & sharing,” tap Devices.
4. Turn on Scan for nearby devices.

Tip: To save devices automatically, turn on Automatically save devices.

Pair an accessory through notifications

Important: Make sure:

• Your Bluetooth accessory works with Fast Pair. Accessories that work with Fast Pair say so on their boxes. Many also say "Made by Google" or "Made for Google." Find accessories in the Google Store.
• Your Android device uses Android 6.0 or higher.
• Your Android device has Bluetooth and Location turned on.

1. Turn on your Fast Pair accessory.
2. Put your accessory in pairing mode.
   • Make sure your accessory is near your Android device.
3. On your Android device:
   • When you get a notification:
     1. Tap Connect.
        • You’ll get a "Device connected" or "Pairing complete" notification.
     2. If your accessory needs to be set up, tap Set up.
   • If you don’t get a notification:
     1. Open your device’s Settings app.
     2. Tap Connected devices Pair new device.
     3. Under “Available devices,” select the device you want to pair.

Tip: If your Fast Pair accessory doesn't show in the notifications, learn how to pair a Bluetooth accessory.

Turn notifications on or off

By default, you’ll receive notifications for nearby devices that you can set up. If you turn off notifications, you can still find devices near you when you open your phone’s Settings app.

1. Open your device’s Settings app.
2. Tap your profile All services.
3. Under “Connected devices & sharing,” tap Devices.
4. Turn Scan for nearby devices on or off.

Fix problems when you set up Fast Pair devices

If you don’t get a notification, you can:

• Search for the device in your Settings app.
  1. Open your device’s Settings app.
  2. Tap your profile All services.
  3. Under “Connected devices & sharing,” tap Devices.
• Check if you’re close to the device. Your phone needs to be within 0.5 m or 1.6 ft of accessories that work with Fast Pair.
• Make sure that your phone has Bluetooth and Location turned on.
  • Learn how to turn on Bluetooth.
  • Learn how to turn on location for your phone.
• Check that your phone is connected to a Wi-Fi network or mobile network.

Tip: Your phone can’t find and automatically set up all devices. If there’s no device in your Settings app, try to connect in a different way, like with Bluetooth. Learn how to turn on Bluetooth.

Delete Fast Pair accessories

The data that Fast Pair collects is encrypted in transit. To find and delete Fast Pair accessories and tags that are saved to your account:

• Fast Pair accessories like earbuds:
  1. Open your device's Settings app.
  2. Tap your profile All services.
  3. Under "Connected devices & sharing," tap Devices Saved Devices.
• Find Hub-compatible tracker tags: Learn how to remove a device from Find Hub.

Opt out of Fast Pair scanning

If you don't want to receive Fast Pair notifications for pairing, you can opt out of Fast Pair scanning.

1. Open your device's Settings app.
2. Tap your profile All services.
3. Under “Connected devices & sharing,” tap Devices.
4. Turn off Scan for nearby devices.

Tip: After you pair your devices through the Bluetooth settings page, you'll receive a notification about account association. If you don't want account association, you can disregard this notification.

How Fast Pair handles your data

To quickly pair your Bluetooth devices, Google collects certain info of devices that use your Google Account. Some of this functionality uses Google Play services. For example, Fast Pair collects:

• Personal info for functionality purposes, like the name you call a Bluetooth device during setup
• Performance data and usage info for analytics purposes

Related resources

• Find & set up Bluetooth devices near your Android device
• Fix Bluetooth problems on Android