Bluetooth low energy for IOS

[yosi]

Hi everyone,
Anyone know if bluetooth low energy is available now in IOS?

[ewpatton]

We are in the process of implementing BLE support for iOS. It's not in the App Store companion yet, but you can help us beta test it via Apple's TestFlight program.

MIT App Inventor for iOS Version 2.64.6 in TestFlight

Hello everyone, I've pushed a new version of the companion app to TestFlight. This version is 2.64.6 (8) and adds some preliminary support for Bluetooth low energy and the Micro:bit UART service. These features are very much a work in progress and more functionality remains to be implemented. If you are interested in helping test these features, you will need to load your projects into ai2-test since it will allow projects with these extensions to still load on iOS. Regards, Evan W. Patton, P…

Not all functions of the BLE extension have been implemented yet.

Also, an important difference with iOS versus Android is that iOS identifies BLE devices using a UUID derived from a combination of the iOS device and the BLE device rather than using a MAC address like on Android. Therefore, you cannot expect that any of the blocks that connect via MAC address to work the same across platforms.