Fixes: • Fix possible crash on launch for Pro users (caused by Export Log functionality). Previously in v1.7 Features: • Redesigned for macOS 26 with Liquid Glass. • Processing of device and scan information has been rewritten to be faster, more efficient, and thread safe, reducing race conditions in processing changes from CoreBluetooth. • 40% more companies identified and over double the characteristics recognised. • Toggle signal strength to RSSI by clicking the signal percentage in the peripheral detail view. • Improved signal strength calculation based on the Mac model running the scan. • Automatically detect peripheral name changes. • 250+ descriptions added to characteristics based on the latest Bluetooth specification. Fixes: • Fix context menu crash on peripherals list. • Fix location map annotation visibility. • Fix connectability state being re-queried constantly when many devices have been found. • Fix scanning mode picker button overlap. • Improve scanning performance and reliability in Low Power Mode. • Fix race conditions in Pro purchase restoration. Further: • Apple device knowledge updated for 2026.

Features: • Redesigned for macOS 26 with Liquid Glass. • Processing of device and scan information has been rewritten to be faster, more efficient, and thread safe, reducing race conditions in processing changes from CoreBluetooth. • 40% more companies identified and over double the characteristics recognised. • Toggle signal strength to RSSI by clicking the signal percentage in the peripheral detail view. • Improved signal strength calculation based on the Mac model running the scan. • Automatically detect peripheral name changes. • 250+ descriptions added to characteristics based on the latest Bluetooth specification. Fixes: • Fix context menu crash on peripherals list. • Fix location map annotation visibility. • Fix connectability state being re-queried constantly when many devices have been found. • Fix scanning mode picker button overlap. • Improve scanning performance and reliability in Low Power Mode. • Fix race conditions in Pro purchase restoration. Further: • Apple device knowledge updated for 2026.

Features: • A new Hex option in the Write Value shortcut action lets you write a hex value to a characteristic from the Shortcuts app. • Manually reload a characteristic value with the reload button above the characteristic value history. • 5 battery icons are now used for more granularity in battery level. Fixes: • Make sure the peripheral is in the expected state before trying to write to a characteristic of it. • Improvements to layout and legibility of various parts of the app for users with an accessibility font size set. • Fix a missing animation when navigating to a peripheral on a compact display and fix navigating between services and characteristics in split view.

Bluetooth Inspector now understands advertisement data! • Gather and present advertisement data from devices as they are discovered. • Preload services when present in advertisement. • Show timestamp advertised by device when discovered. • Use MAC address in advertisement for manufacturer detection. More Features: • Characteristic descriptors. Descriptor information is now displayed alongside characteristic values if descriptors are present in the received information about a device. • Detect when not ready to receive messages. Sometimes devices are not ready to receive the next message as they're still processing the previous one. Bluetooth Inspector is now able to detect this situation and let you know that your next message might be missed by the device. You're still welcome to try sending a message though! • Status of attempted writes. Alongside the history of received values, Bluetooth Inspector now keeps a list of attempted writes with the status of each. Observe the queue messages and watch as they are processed by the recipient device. • Support writes without response. Some characteristics don't provide the ability to acknowledge receipt of your sent messages. Bluetooth Inspector now supports the ability to send messages without acknowledgement, which may also increase the amount of bytes that can be sent in the message. • Copy all the things from all the places. Device information, as originally received from the device or as decoded by Bluetooth Inspector. All the IDs and UUIDs for peripherals, services and characteristics. Values and the history of them. Context menus everywhere. • Touch Bar buttons: new sidebar toggle, scanning modes switch and peripheral connection buttons. • ‘Write Value’ shortcut action. Write a value to a characteristic on a peripheral. Strings and numeric can be written to any writable characteristic discovered from interrogation on scanned peripherals. • Core Data. The backend of the app now uses Apple Core Data, allowing for much more efficient temporary storage of detected devices, tested up to thousands of concurrent detections. • Last Seen time. Bluetooth Inspector now keeps track of the time a peripheral was last seen, updating a count of devices currently visible separate from all devices. A new row customisation option has been added to show the time since the device was last seen. • UI performance. Swift Concurrency and refactoring of frontend and backend interaction code has enabled a better separation between the two. Fixes: • When first receiving a value for a characteristic, don't try to read the same value again unprompted.

Features: • Shortcut actions automate scanning and interrogation, enumerating services and characteristics, and reading values. • Filter by event circumstance in the session log. • Awareness of 8 more Apple device characteristics.

Features: • Log found peripherals, services, characteristics and values. Export a .log file of timestamped events.

Features: • Design your own peripheral rows with the information you desire at the forefront. Choose to include components like make and signal strength, then rearrange and adjust text sizes for our own needs. • Add awareness of 46 new services, 97 new characteristics, 113 new characteristic descriptions, and 297 new companies producing Bluetooth peripherals.

Features: • Redesigned options menu to be consistent across all platforms, making it easier to access and change settings. Bluetooth Inspector is now available on Apple TV!

Features: • All three scanning states are now available in the toolbar for easier access. • Choose to manually query the peripheral for a new characteristic value from the value history list. Fixes: • Fix issues relating to changes to Bluetooth APIs and workaround list style issues in upcoming macOS releases.

Fixes: • Big performance improvements, working around SwiftUI List and NavigationLink performance issues by manually controlling list row updates. Intensive mode is still available in preferences where real time updates on all peripherals is a higher priority than UI responsiveness.

Introducing Bluetooth Inspector Pro: • Send messages to peripherals by writing to characteristics. Write strings, numbers or hex to a writable characteristic. • See a history of the value of a characteristic since the session started, timestamped to when the value changed. Features: • Navigate through detailed information on services and characteristics.

Features: • Add descriptions to 31 more services and 80 characteristics. These descriptions show under the service and characteristic in the peripheral's detail page.

Features: • New button in the toolbar to toggle visibility of the sidebar to dedicate more of the window to peripheral detail.

Features: • Device information in list: Make and model of device returns to the list of devices, easily accessible at a glance through the list. • Peripheral highlights: A selection of interesting peripherals will be shown at the top of the peripherals list, such as devices with which you have an iCloud association. • Detect Continuity: Detect the Apple Continuity service and show an icon in the peripheral's highlights if found. • Infer device make without interrogation: Sometimes it's possible to infer the manufacturer of the device without interrogating the device, as some devices advertise services or behaviours only present in devices by a certain manufacturer. Where this inference is possible, the make of the device will be shown on the peripherals list without needing to interrogate the device first. Information obtained through interrogation overrides any inferences made. Fixes: • On macOS, don't immediately disconnect from all peripherals when the main window loses focus. • For the current time service, improve the decoding of the returned date and time data.

Fixes: • Peripherals list no longer gets confused about the difference between a section header and a peripheral. (It's actually a SwiftUI bug, but I've worked around the issue.)

Features: • Intensive mode, a new mode available in the options menu. This mode updates information in the app more frequently, such as signal strength, at the expense of more power. • Detection of un-connectable devices. Using advertisement data from discovered peripherals, figure out whether a device can be interrogated without attempting first, improving performance and using less power. • Prompt to begin scanning and inspection with shortcuts to activate functionality from the main peripherals list. Fixes: • When disconnecting from all peripherals, allow the connection of peripherals without needing to manually select each peripheral. Further: • Add descriptions to peripheral sections explaining what categorises peripherals in a certain group. • Minor update to device icons for legibility.

Fixes: • If we're in auto-interrogate mode, disconnecting from a peripheral had no effect since the connection will be re-established immediately. Now manually disconnecting will remove the peripheral from participation in automatic interrogation until manually connected. Further: • More help text has been added to the options describing how interrogation works. Have a read from the options menu by choosing the question mark under interrogation options.

Features: • ‘Disconnect all’ option in the menu to disconnect from all peripherals currently being interrogated. • ‘Automatic interrogation’ toggle in the menu to choose to manually interrogate peripherals rather than automatically asking all found peripherals for information. Fixes: • A previous update made the app try harder to disconnect from peripherals that refused to end the interrogation session when the app was backgrounded. Unfortunately the app tried so hard, it was too exhausted to try again the next time the app was foregrounded. This is now resolved and the determined app will continue to try aborting an interrogation regardless of the session being resumed.

Features: • Identify late-2020 Apple devices (e.g. iPhone 12). • Add toggle for automatic interrogation from options menu alongside automatic scanning. Fixes: • Performance improvements to various parts of the UI by only refreshing changed content.

• More reliably keep the chosen peripheral selected as other peripherals are discovered and lost.

• Fix warning sometimes missing when Bluetooth authorisation was not granted to the app.