We don’t have iPhones with Bluetooth 6 but—in actual fact, solely a pair second-tier Android telephones even declare to help it to date. However that’s not stopping the Bluetooth group, which is holding with its twice-a-year cadence and asserting the Bluetooth 6.1 spec.
You’ll recall the Bluetooth 6 spec added a powerful new Channel Sounding functionality that will give it centimeter-accurate location and distance monitoring just like Extremely Wideband, along with some new options that may enhance latency and throughput.
The Bluetooth 6.1 replace is targeted on a brand new characteristic known as Randomized RPA (Resolvable Non-public Deal with). This characteristic permits for the timing of RPA handle adjustments, which improves privateness. Your Bluetooth system and people it connects to can change handle at instances that may’t be predicted, which makes it more durable for snooping gadgets to trace your exercise or location. To enhance energy effectivity, this handle change operation will be offloaded to the Bluetooth controller as a substitute of the system’s CPU, which can save battery life.
We count on the primary premium telephones to help Bluetooth 6 someday this fall, and that would very nicely embrace the iPhone 17. It’s fairly potential these will help these new Bluetooth 6.1 options as nicely, particularly given Apple’s enthusiasm for privateness and energy effectivity.
