https://devzone.nordicsemi.com/f/nordic-q-a/2286/pairing-without-the-bond-managerI have a BLE peripheral and I&#39;m not using the bond manager. Connecting and bonding with the &quot;Master Control Panel&quot; works fine but I&#39;m having problems trying to use it with my iPhone app. I can connect, read the characteristics, initiate a pairing anden-USTelligent Community 13Mon, 21 Apr 2014 19:30:19 GMThttps://devzone.nordicsemi.com/thread/9527?ContentTypeID=1Mon, 21 Apr 2014 19:30:19 GMT137ad170-7792-4731-bb38-c0d22fbe4515:59567714-9950-4dd6-84d1-d61a22399aeeBeat Zenerino<p>That makes sense and would actually solve more problems than I was hoping for. It would allow for a fast bond until it hits the limit and only after that would there be a delay and only for previous users. Devices that never hit the limit would work as expected. I&#39;ll pursue this thought, see what I come up with and hopefully post the successful results.</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>https://devzone.nordicsemi.com/thread/9526?ContentTypeID=1Mon, 21 Apr 2014 19:18:31 GMT137ad170-7792-4731-bb38-c0d22fbe4515:69c9d659-6524-44cb-8fe7-d364037e9561Eric Salem<p>I have just started looking into this as well. From my understanding, although you can initiate a bond via softdevice calls its the bondmanager that stores the data. It is usually called on_ble_evt() and does storing or recalling of the bond info. With the little bit I have peaked at it, it seems necessary to include the bond manager.</p> <p>I do have a suggestion to correct your issue about not being able to delete bonds. I saw a bondmanager function that returns a specific value if it has filled up. You can check for that and delete all bonds before setting up that new pair. This may help you read into it as I would not advise taking my words as fact.</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>