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.