@david.hendon! Unfortunately for me, iOS 16.6 is not the fix for the “iPhone separation.” But we have different phones (after years of my wife’s hand-me-downs, I finally got a new phone last fall, an iPhone 14 Pro Max).
Your post that I’m quoting inspired me to invent a new test system. Anyone trying this at home, be sure no one else in your family uses the microwave while you’re about it!
It’s a pain to try to figure out how far and how long you have to be away from your phone to trigger the problem. Microwaves are “Faraday cages.” The power-generating equipment inside is surrounded by metal or metal mesh (in the microwave window) designed to prevent any significant amounts of radiation from escaping and cooking you instead of the food.
I tried putting my iPhone in our microwave for 1, 2.5, and 5 minutes. Five minutes in three trials was guaranteed to cause at least one Omnia 962 to lose BT contact with my phone. But the results on re-establishing contact varied for each 5-minute isolation in the microwave.
In trial one, both HA’s lost contact. Waiting one minute did not allow them to reestablish contact with my iPhone. But turning BT off and on again through the Control Center BT button worked.
In trial two, both HA’s lost contact again. But within a few seconds of removing the phone from the microwave, both HA’s spontaneously reconnected, and the Smart 3D app functioned normally to change program settings.
In trial three, only the right HA lost contact. Waiting a minute, turning BT off and on again, or rebooting the phone did not re-establish contact. Only rebooting the HA worked to get it to reconnect to my iPhone.
Now that I have a decent test system, I’ll try to see what happens if I go to even longer iPhone isolation times.