Yeah, I tried to connect through the app as well, without pairing it at all. It still didn't work. It would lag for a second like it wanted to work, but no luck. :< I'm glad its working on your ipad though!

Its nice to have a backup if ones phone doesn't work.
Hopefully as people get their tamagotchis we can figure out some sort of solution.
So, I got it to connect to my S9+ and here's what I did:
Went to the app and got to the place where I could pair it with the meets
went to the connection menu on the meets and went into the app option and clicked on it so the little image of the 2 hearts comes up
tapped on the connect icon on the app
Pressed the B button on the meets
And then it connected just fine. You definitely DO NOT actually go into your bluetooth options and pair it like headphones or anything, you just do it through the app itself. The thing that kept tripping me up is I kept forgetting to press B on the screen with the 2 hearts, which you have to do to get the meets to actually try to do anything. XD
Other than that... it's interesting so far! At the moment, where my character is just a child it feels like any other color tama but with new stuff to select. There's plenty I don't know yet, but I'll probably put a bunch in my log. The default games are pretty good, but the 'spam a' surfboard one seems pretty touchy.
I have a Chiroritchi at the moment, what do you have?