We don’t have iPhones with Bluetooth 6 but—in actual fact, solely a pair second-tier Android telephones even declare to help it up to now. However that’s not stopping the Bluetooth group, which is maintaining with its twice-a-year cadence and saying the Bluetooth 6.1 spec.
You’ll recall the Bluetooth 6 spec added a formidable new Channel Sounding functionality that will give it centimeter-accurate location and distance monitoring much 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 referred to as Randomized RPA (Resolvable Personal Tackle). This characteristic permits for the timing of RPA deal with adjustments, which improves privateness. Your Bluetooth system and people it connects to can change deal with at occasions that may’t be predicted, which makes it more durable for snooping gadgets to trace your exercise or location. To enhance energy effectivity, this deal with change operation may be offloaded to the Bluetooth controller as an alternative of the system’s CPU, which is able to save battery life.
We anticipate the primary premium telephones to help Bluetooth 6 someday this fall, and that might very effectively embody the iPhone 17. It’s fairly potential these will help these new Bluetooth 6.1 options as effectively, particularly given Apple’s enthusiasm for privateness and energy effectivity.
