{"id":4005,"date":"2019-08-29T06:57:18","date_gmt":"2019-08-29T06:57:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4005"},"modified":"2019-08-29T07:33:08","modified_gmt":"2019-08-29T07:33:08","slug":"completely-new-nrf-connect-for-ios","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/completely-new-nrf-connect-for-ios\/","title":{"rendered":"Completely New nRF Connect for iOS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As we have <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"previously mentioned (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/testing-if-a-beacon-is-working\/\" target=\"_blank\">previously mentioned<\/a>, nRF Connect is the the best app for detecting if a Bluetooth LE device such as a beacon is working. The Android version has always had more features than the iOS version but that is changing. <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"nRF Connect for iOS (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/apps.apple.com\/gb\/app\/nrf-connect\/id1054362403\" target=\"_blank\">nRF Connect for iOS<\/a> has been completely re-written and now has a very pretty UI.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"732\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/nrfconnectios.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4006\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/nrfconnectios.png 732w, https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/nrfconnectios-300x205.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>We still recommend using the Android rather than the iOS version because iOS apps can&#8217;t see Bluetooth MAC addresses due to some peculiar decisions made by people at Apple. Scanning also can&#8217;t see an iBeacon UUID, major and minor in the advertising. It&#8217;s more difficult to uniquely identify Bluetooth devices in apps such as nRF Connect on iOS than it is on Android.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we have previously mentioned, nRF Connect is the the best app for detecting if a Bluetooth LE device such as a beacon is working. The Android version has always had more features than the iOS version but that is changing. nRF Connect for iOS has been completely re-written and now has a very pretty &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/completely-new-nrf-connect-for-ios\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Completely New nRF Connect for iOS&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,6,1,27],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4005"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4005"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4070,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4005\/revisions\/4070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}