I have an iOS app that works on iOS 14 on all of my test devices, iPhone XR, iPhone 11 Max, iPhone 7. The app connects to a BLE device, the app reads and sends settings over Bluetooth to modify the devices behavior.

I just got a new phone (iPhone 13 Pro) and I was doing some final testing before release. So this is the first time this app is running on this phone. I never get the dialog to pop up that asks to pair the device when I connect to it. I thought this was strange. So I went back to my iPhone XR and "forgot" the BLE device. I delete the app and re-run. It sees the device, I hit connect in the app and it asks me if I would like to pair.

Obviously this is some weird exception I am not handling quite right. Does anyone have a thought? Looking around here on Stackoverflow and google and I don't see that anyone else has run into this.

This is an objective-c app, using CoreBluetooth.