Unexpected pairing dialog when connecting to BLE peripheral

We have the same issue with our app - AroundThen. Problem only appeared since IOS 9. Anyone found a workaround for this?

Just tried IOS 9.01 to an 8.4.1 and have the same issue - was hoping they'd fixed it, but unfortunately not the case

Hi Gaultier,

This is not possible for us, we are just releasing on college campuses and approaching new students with our app. The first experience they get with our app is asking them to pair to another user. This makes for a really bad user experience and causes users to not want to use our app because (for good reason) users do not want to connect to other people's phones around them.

Does Apple have a plan to fix this? We have no way to control potential users upgrading to iOS 9 before we are even introduced to them. This is make or break for our app. We can't launch (which we are currently doing and have a lot of money behind) with it behaving this way.

Here is our app:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/chatback-auto-connect-chat/id931769309?mt=8

Thanks,

Brian

The only thing I can recommend at this point is file a bug about the problem between iOS 9 <-> iOS 8 at https://bugreport.apple.com so the problem can be triaged and a resolution can be decided on.

Hi Gualtier

Agree it's an IOS 8 related issue - we have raised this as a bug a few days ago. When you say it's been determined to be caused by a bug in IOS 8, have Apple support confirimed that this is the case, they are still asking us to run tests with Bluetooth logs. We have had to workaround the issue by the latest release which now only uses Bluetooth between devices that are on IOS 9. It's a pity as it's been working fine on IOS7 and IOS 8 for over a year, but it's the only viable solution at this time.

Thanks, Ken