PAwR about IOS

RE: PAwR about IOS

Pallavi Patil — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 11:11:17 GMT

Hie Liu,

Can you please clarify if your iOS device is not able to identify the correct bluetooth connected device. PaWR is not supported on IOS device but you should be able to see the bluetooth device connected atleast. Can you please check if it is visible in nrf connect for mobile.

I have also raised your query to the development team at Nordics. Can you please describe your task so we can support you better.

Best Regards

Pallavi

RE: PAwR about IOS

Nathan — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 04:38:22 GMT

Dear lan，

Thanks for your reply.

RE: PAwR about IOS

Nathan — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 04:36:52 GMT

Dear Pallavi，

Thanks for your reply.

RE: PAwR about IOS

Ian01 — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 01:08:53 GMT

iOS may have Bluetooth hardware support internally, but third-party apps cannot use PAwR through public CoreBluetooth APIs. CoreBluetooth exposes the normal BLE app model: scan for advertising peripherals, connect, discover GATT services and characteristics, read, write, notify, indicate, and advertise limited GATT-related data as a peripheral. Apple’s CBCentralManager documentation describes scanning, discovering, and connecting to advertising peripherals, and CBPeripheralManager is centered around publishing GATT services and advertising them to centrals.

Apple’s public peripheral advertising API is also limited. CBPeripheralManager.startAdvertising(_:) only accepts normal advertising data, and Apple documents that the peripheral manager supports only CBAdvertisementDataLocalNameKey and CBAdvertisementDataServiceUUIDsKey for advertising data. That is far below the level of control required for Extended Advertising or PAwR.

Bluetooth - CI Tracker is focused on standard BLE and GATT debugging on iPhone. It helps developers, firmware engineers, hardware teams, and testers scan nearby BLE peripherals, inspect GATT services and characteristics, send custom Hex commands, enable notifications, configure reusable Profiles, build data parsers, set timers and receive rules, and inspect live TX / RX / SYSTEM / PARSE / ERROR logs.

RE: PAwR about IOS

Pallavi Patil — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 12:01:29 GMT

Hie,

As far as I am aware, IOS prevents some apps from performing continuous active full system scans which is necessary to support PAwR. Can you please try disabling "background app refresh" in your phone and retry making the connection.

Please feel free to reach out if you have any more questions.

Best Regards

Pallavi

RE: PAwR about IOS

Nathan — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 03:03:09 GMT

Can you help me confirm this? Thank you very much