Be very afraid of updating iphone to IOS 16. It has made the audio handoff impossible unless you do a “Forget this device” on the device you are leaving and re-pair on new device
5th gen Ipad on IOS 15.7 to Iphone se 2nd gen. on IOS 16
Resound Linx3d
Apparently no hearing challenged engineers work at Apple in the MFI dept.