Bluetooth Inspector

Great for networking

When Bluetooth is turned off, BT Inspector is somehow attempting to scan for bluetooth, even with background app refresh turned off system-wide 🤨

Crashes a lot when trying to Send any kind of message. To my ESP32-C3 iOS 26.2 with iPhone 13 Pro Max.

For developing BLE apps, this would be much more useful if it would refresh the supported services of a device without having to uninstall and reinstall the app.

I know I can’t expect much on iPhone side, but I do expect it to be functional in some way. I have purchased the pro version, but it doesn’t seem to have improved things. It might just be the area that I live in. I hit scan, and I get about 80-100 devices listed as Unknown in an unknown area around me. Even interrogating everything, does not update the screen, but I get requests from all my neighbors iPhones and iPads to connect to my phone. What it does not do is find or connect to my Bluetooth speaker sitting 5 feet away. This is not useful. It seems that I don’t have all of the controls or the ability to go further into the app. Or access to support. The map would be useful if I could zoom in closer than a 1000 square feet so all I see is my location buried under a cluster of unknown devices. I don’t know what it would look like on other devices but if this is it for the iPhone then I am just not impressed. Sorry, but I really did want it to succeed because I need the information it promised and all I got was glitch. Update: I still cannot get any other information about this app. I figured out how to work the app and it works a bit more stable on a newer device. But in the end, all it tells me is that I am surrounded by a bunch of unknown and unconnected devices. I can’t tell if they are disrupting my connections to my equipment or not or where they are because the map covers several city blocks and won’t zoom in further to a useful distance of just my building. And again, I can’t tell if that is a design feature or a glitch because I have no documentation to show me basic information about this app.

Even with a device actively selected, the list of devices re-sorts itself constantly and the selection is only preserved by index, not by device ID. I have no idea who thought this would be an acceptable UI choice but it is not. It also rainbow pinwheels constantly, requiring a force quit.

This is a useless app as is … when you pay for the app, you really get nothing …. GPS info is collected but not displayed in Session dump, You cannot rename/customized BT entry, no user document, the developer has no easy way to feedback to him …. Things to add and improve: 1) Allow changing the name of a BT device to indicate what it is (ex: Bill iPhone, John TV, etc) - Store that info so when it seen again, you know. 2) Add the GPS position to each device in the Session dump file 3) Allow blocking or non-display of known BT device(s) (ex: do not display your personal devices, just everybody else, etc) 4) Add link to developer feedback for the app 5) Provide and allow adding a picture for device (ex: if it a phone, use a icon for a phone, if a printer, icon for a printer you can add) 6) Store all this data on phone and cloud where ever so it inly entered once. 7) Show MAC instead of useless UUID. UUID is no value. MAC address is needed else this app is a total waste of money. Thank you

I have over 30 Govee temperature sensors. I name them by the location I put them in. Well I lost track of one sensor because it got switched with another sensor when I was changing the batteries. Then that lost sensor started showing a humidity level of 75%. So I needed to find that sensors location. I removed the batteries from all the Govee devices I could and then launched BT Inspector. It did not take long to figure out which BT device was my lost sensor. I started walking around watching the BT signal increase and decrease. Walking towards the stronger signal location I got within 6 feet of the sensor. At that point I remembered where I had placed a sensor. I was able to find the high humidity and deal with it. Using the BT Inspector I have been able to get within 6 feet of a device. At that point the signal stops changing enough to narrow the device location down any further.

I personally use it all the time, and it pretty fun to just run it in a crowded environment and see everything nearby, like, someone brought their BT speaker onto the plane I’m on. I don’t feel like writing a full review, but one last thing, I like the pro add on, I bought it and am not disappointed, although I don’t know how to use it.

I’m not a review writer but I DO need to read them from time to time so this is my way of giving back. ☺️I’ve been looking for something like this in the app store. It’s so hard to know what/who to trust (hence the need for this app). So far it seems I got lucky with my first choice. I might upgrade because I’d like a log I don’t have to create… but the free version starts right up and is easy to understand.