I set up all my Kasa devices with my iPhone. Now I'm trying to add everything to my iPad as well, so I can use whichever is handy. If it matters, I also have everything running in the Alexa app on 2 Fire tablets and 2 Amazon Echo voice assistants. So I can talk to them or control them "manually", with whichever control happens to be in the room.

Old iPad Pro on OS 16.2, thought when I gave permission to access everything, the iPad Kasa app would do most of the work, just as the Amazon stuff did.

But no! It wants me to go through every single Kasa device and actually physically unplug and replug, and add them from scratch in the iPad app. That's not right. Am I doing something wrong or missing something? And yes I gave permission to share it all and no I had no VPN running and yes everything is using the same network and yes I tried offloading and reinstalling app. Everything works everywhere all at once except the iPad which looks around and says, what devices?  ???