Can’t get my Sony Bluetooth speaker SRS-XB31 to connect to my Ipad

Is your iPad not seeing it in the Bluetooth setting or is it seeing it but just won’t connect? Just tested mine out and it’s connecting with no issues (iPadOS 17.0.3).

The following link is from Sony. See if any of that helps.

https://helpguide.sony.net/speaker/srs-xb31/v1/en/contents/TP0001599383.html#:~:text=Check%20that%20the%20BLUETOOTH%20device,It%20may%20improve%20symptoms

If you own a very old iPad model that is stuck on iOS 9 or 10, it may not see it or connect to it.

That Bluetooth speaker may need a newer Bluetooth standard to see and connect that BT speaker that very old iPad models lack or maybe, simply, incompatible.

You may need a much newer iPad model.

Sorry.