Bluetooth Inspector
George Garside Developer Tools iPhoneiPadiPod touchMac
Bluetooth Inspector is a free Developer Tools app for iPhone and iPad by George Garside. Rated 4.6/5 from 1,573 ratings. Requires iOS 26.0.
- Rating
- 4.6
- 1.5K ratings
- Price
- Free
- on the App Store
- Size
- 20 MB
- Age 4+
- Updated
- Oct 7
- 2026 · v1.7.9
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About Bluetooth Inspector
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.
Ratings & reviews
4.6
1.5K ratings
What’s new
Version 1.7.9 · Updated October 7, 2026
Features: • Peripherals that haven't been seen recently are greyed out in the list, so devices that have gone quiet are easy to tell apart from those still nearby. Fixes: • Writing a second or later value to a characteristic no longer crashes the app. • Sending a write while viewing a characteristic no longer crashes when the device confirms it. • Scanning for devices no longer crashes the app when many advertisements arrive at once. • A new device is no longer listed twice when it advertises several times in quick succession. • Successful writes now show the value you sent in the write history instead of an empty entry. • Services a device removes or changes no longer linger alongside the refreshed ones. • The peripherals toolbar no longer crashes when location isn't available. Further: • Peripheral discovery, signal strength updates and received values are now processed on a background actor, keeping the app responsive during intensive scanning. • Location updates now use the modern Core Location live updates API.
App privacy
The developer, George Garside, reported these privacy practices to Apple.
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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