New iPhone 17 wants a pin to connect bluetooth. Running Mint Xia. How to connect?

[jwnyc]

I have a brand new iPhone 17. In trying to connect my phone's bluetooth to the computer (Mint Xia) the phone is asking me to input a PIN number. Where can I input this PIN to enable the pairing?

 

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[jwnyc]

The Linux system is running perfectly - my old iphone 12mini, and both ipads connected to bluetooth and my computer no issue at all. This is specific to this new phone. Bluetooth pairing on the phone is providing a PIN number to input on the computer, but nothing pops up anywhere on the desktop for inputting that PIN. Any specific ideas?

 

[Condobloke]

Try connecting your phone to the pc/laptop via cable

In menu type in Bluetooth (or similar)....there may be a spot there to enter the pin

 

[jwnyc]

Did that, thanks. Now I have a pop up that says "Connection to BlueZ failed. Bluez Daemon is not running, blueman-manager cannot continue. This probably means that there were no Bluetooth adapters detected or Bluetooth daemon was not started.

 

[jwnyc]

Bluetooth on both ipads is still working perfectly.

 

[Condobloke]

Bluetooth on both ipads is still working perfectly

That would suggest the "updated" bluetooth on the phone is not comaptible.

One is chasing the other.

On linux Mint 22.2 , bluetooth was updated here arond 4 days ago.
I have an iphone 13 and it handled the update without a murmur

This may be an issue for apple support ?

 

[jwnyc]

Thanks. I started with Apple this morning, escalated to a senior tech guy, who said if bluetooth is working on my phone at all (ie it pairs with my JBL Flip 7 speaker just fine) it's not a phone issue. They ran a diagnostic and it said the phone was fine. No one is addressing the os issues. Once this phone tries to talk to the computer all bets are off. I think it's iPhone OS 26.0.1 that is causing the trouble. Running the same OS on both ipads without a hitch. I'm flummoxed.

I've reached out through GitHub to the blueman-project/blueman to see if they have any thoughts.

 

[Condobloke]

it pairs with my JBL Flip 7 speaker just fine

So it would fair to draw the assumption that the drama lies with the OS...Linux Mint 22.1

I have zero idea if the new update to the Bluetooth Manager would have any impact. It is now 5.72-0ubuntu5.5
You can see in my screenshot that 5 bluez related packages have been updated.
Hopefully the people at github can shed some light for you

I also dont know if such an update has been available to xia, 22.1, as it has with 22.2 (Zara)

22.2 also runs the 6.8.0-86 kernel. There could be implications there as well.

Upgrading to 22.2 is straightforward ( https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4882 ), but that is a decision for you.

Advice from github would be preferable before that took place.

 

[jwnyc]

The thing is - the same apple os talks to the computer fine on two devices, but won't communicate on the new phone. WHere's the glitch happening, I wonder? I've been thinking about a Zara update, if it's out of Beta. But if I do that, I'll do a clean install, which involves some work backing up, and the time to install and get everything running again. If I have the courage, maybe I'll tackle that next week. Thanks very much for your input.

 

[Condobloke]

Zara is out of Beta.
I used the in place upgrade. Quick and effective. Timeshift snapshot first.

 

[theLegionWithin]

I dont have any iOS devices, but the iPhone 17 is the latest/greatest model, so I wonder if it's version of bluetooth is "too new" for bluez/bluetooth drivers in the distro you're using - ie: older iOS devices work fine but the new tech doesnt - feels like an incompatibility issue.

easy enough to test though, use another distro's live environment to see what happens.