Ipad asking me to use my phone to start recovery mode

After I attempted to restart my iPad, it asked me to connect to my Mac, which I didn't do because I didn't what was going on and thought it was an error or virus. To deal with it, I attempted to restart my Ipad again. However, this time, my iPad played an animation asking me to place my phone on the bottom of my iPad screen. Out of desperation, I followed its instructions. My phone prompted me to put my iPad into recovery mode, which I did. After some research, most information I found on recovery mode indicated that it's usually done with a Mac but never an iPhone. I was just wondering if this was a new feature introduced by apple or if I should be concerned about malware (I'm probably overthinking but I just want to be sure). I'm currently using an iPad Air (5th Gen) and an iPhone 13.