I have an iPhone currently and I did not know any of this. The most I knew was that my phone wants to turn bluetooth on anytime it’s restarted and turning it off from the control panel that you swipe up from the bottom only turns it off for 24 hours. You have to go into your settings to get the Bluetooth to turn all the way off, and apparently even then it’s not? What the fuck Apple.
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This is the nightmare ending for removing the headphone jack
damn, that's clever.
Serves Apple right for removing the headphone jack to try to lock people into their ecosystem
How is this easier than reverse engineering the Lightning audio standard which hasn't changed in 12 years? Even Gruber's like "but doing it the right way requires a DAC, that's like a whole little computer", dude, do you think Bluetooth is an analog standard? You cannot decode AAC more efficiently than the PCM audio that gets sent over Lightning.
when your phone dies or is turned off it has a like “your phone is findable” screen on if you tap the power button.
it is a setting you can turn off and last i checked if you have that off the ble advertisements. right undee the swipe to turn off there is text that says “iphone findable after off” or smth and it’s a quick menu to disable it for that power off.
last time i checked i didn’t see any ble activity from it when i did the temporary or permanent disabling of that feature.
i did at one point write a lil bluetooth sniffer and hooked it up to a screen to display how many apple devices were in the area. this was around the time when apple beacons were a thing. also i showed it was trivial to identify and track an individual across our college campus.
