All you have to do is disconnect from any WiFi network. Make sure bluetooth is on in the iphone and on your laptop. Then click on the PANU connection in the network manager. Make sure that it is your computer initiating the bluetooth connection to the iphone.

If you are connected to a wifi connection it will always (at least for now) fail to connect.

It should spin for a couple seconds and connect.

I used blueman as a debug program to find a better error message, and then after a successful connection, removed it as the stock bluetooth application works well. Do you have any errors? Maybe your ip settings need to be updated? You will want to use a dynamic ip address for the connection.

Let us know if this helps

I have paired, trusted and connected, enabled tethering and told blueman to use the device as a network access point and even though it says success and connects, and the iphone says it’s tethered, it still does not have a net connection.

Is something meant to appear in Network Connections? Because no new connections appear there. (I would expect them to)

Anything else I can do?