Discover nearby Bluetooth peripherals and inspect their services for information and characteristics. • View information and signal strength for all peripherals and devices, updating in real time as you move around. • Get battery level for your own Apple devices — no need to install the app on all your devices. • See model identification broadcast by devices around you, mapping device identifiers to the marketing name. • Extract software and firmware version strings from devices broadcasting this information. • Read any characteristic's value, even for services not well known and are custom to the device being interrogated. • Write characteristic values back to the peripheral as string, numeric or hex. • See a history of the value of a characteristic since the session started, timestamped to when the value changed. • Log found peripherals, services, characteristics and values, and export a .log file of timestamped events for your analysis. • Shortcuts integration with actions for scanning and interrogation, enumerating services and characteristics, and reading values. • Background scanning by advertised service IDs with device count mapped by location found and status shown in a Live Activity. Get support @grgarside or georgegarside.com/apps/bluetooth-inspector Constant use of Bluetooth connectivity can drain your device's battery. Bluetooth connectivity is only used when this app is in the foreground and up to a few seconds after being backgrounded to safely disconnect from peripherals being interrogated, unless Background Scanning is enabled in the app and the Live Activity is running.
| Size | 17.1 MB |
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| Initial release | |
| Price | |
| Platforms | Apple TV, iPhone, iPad, and Mac |
| Languages | English |
| Category | Developer Tools |
| Website | georgegarside.com/apps/bluetooth-inspector |
| Compatibility | |
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| iPhone | Requires iOS 26.0 or later. |
| iPad | Requires iPadOS 26.0 or later. |
| Mac | Requires macOS 13.0 or later. |
| Apple Vision | Requires visionOS 26.0 or later. |
| Apple TV | Requires tvOS 15.0 or later. |
App's data is regularly updated.
Last update:
Features: • 40% more companies identified and over double the characteristics recognised. • Toggle signal strength to RSSI by tapping the signal percentage in the peripheral detail view. • Improve the signal strength calculation by considering the device model running the scan. Fixes: • Improve scanning performance and reliability in Low Power Mode.