Choose the First Task You Want Flex to Complete
For Ledger Live iPhone Flex Bluetooth setup, begin with a concrete task such as adding an existing supported account. The app is now Ledger Wallet. Defining that outcome helps distinguish a successful radio exchange from a local account view that still needs configuration.
Identify whether Flex is already initialized. Connecting an established device to another interface should preserve its keys. A new phone does not require a fresh recovery phrase simply because its portfolio starts empty.
Prepare Flex as a Touchscreen Device
Charge and unlock Flex, then inspect its Bluetooth setting from the dashboard’s Settings. Use the current Ledger touchscreen pairing instructions. Nano X button holds and Security-menu sequences should not be transplanted to Flex.
Keep the hardware close enough to read alongside the iPhone. Stop another phone’s ordinary active session before creating this request. This makes a selected label and each confirmation attributable to the connection you intend.
Authorize the App and Start Its Flex Flow
Use the verified mobile application, choose Flex and follow the branch for the hardware’s actual state. The iPhone Bluetooth radio and the wallet app’s Bluetooth privacy authorization must each be available. Apple’s hardware-access reference explains the app permission boundary.
Do not grant unrelated camera or location access merely to make discovery work. If the relevant app entry is missing, reach the feature that asks for it and record whether iOS presents the request.
Inspect the Pairing Before Confirming
Read the discovered result against your prepared Flex. When a new code exchange is requested, compare all digits on both screens. Cancel a mismatch, an unsolicited prompt or an ambiguous selection. Completing the flow quickly is less useful than completing the intended exchange correctly.
Follow the touchscreen confirmation actually displayed by Flex. A phone-side approval alone is not evidence that every required hardware step finished. If you are reconnecting an existing valid association, a fresh comparison may be unnecessary; verify the live task instead.
Assess the Setup Through Its Intended Outcome
Complete the expected device-management or account-addition interaction and inspect the physical response. Then compare the correct chain, public account and known activity. Do not use a funded transaction as an installation test or assume similar account labels establish identical keys.
The Flex specifications provide current model context, while individual maintenance and provider features have their own conditions. Ordinary Bluetooth support does not establish a universal firmware-update path or identical desktop and mobile behavior.
For example, Flex can complete the connection while the iPhone still needs an intended account added. That is a completed transport stage followed by an account-visibility task, not proof that the pairing must be erased and repeated.
Before restoring old nicknames, inspect one known account-history reference. That makes an otherwise empty new iPhone a useful setup test without requiring a payment, an account export to support or a change to Flex’s keys.
Flex Setup Questions
What if an old pairing prevents the new session?
Use the official Flex pairing-repair branch. The scoped Bluetooth removal command differs from wallet factory reset; follow its warning and coordinate stale app and phone records only where directed.
Can I change phones during device maintenance?
Do not move or interrupt a progressing Ledger OS installation. Maintain its required host session and connection, then return to ordinary phone setup after completion or documented model-specific recovery.
Does pairing copy private keys into iPhone?
The supported hardware workflow does not require a host-side recovery-phrase import. Keep backup words outside iOS. Review later transaction details on Flex independently of a successful pairing or familiar account total.
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