Re: What causes a BLE device to appear in Settings/Bluetooth?
Re: What causes a BLE device to appear in Settings/Bluetooth?
- Subject: Re: What causes a BLE device to appear in Settings/Bluetooth?
- From: Nick Brook via Bluetooth-dev <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 14 May 2020 11:17:01 +0100
If that device is connected by your App and remains connected when you go to
iOS settings, it will show up in that list. I don’t think there is a way to
avoid this.
Thanks
Nick
W: https://nrbtech.io <https://nrbtech.io/>
> On 14 May 2020, at 11:08, Robert Atkins <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 14 May 2020 at 09:41, Nick Brook <email@hidden
> <mailto:email@hidden>> wrote:
> iOS will not automatically connect to devices other than devices it is
> already paired to, devices that apps connect to through CoreBluetooth, and
> other iOS devices with the same Apple ID configured.
>
> So you're saying that all devices we connect to via CoreBluetooth and read a
> characteristic value from will appear under "My Devices" in
> Settings/Bluetooth?
>
> Is there any way to *prevent* this from happening?
>
> (Imagining a BTLE-based chat app like FireChat, there'd be an entry in "My
> Devices" for every phone you exchanged data with, even if you weren't
> communicating with that user directly but just passing on messages to them to
> store-and-forward. This sounds less than ideal, you'll have a list of dozen's
> of names like "Alice's iPhone", "Bob's iPhone" etc.)
>
> Cheers, Robert.
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