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# CBCentralManagerState

Values that represent the current state of a central manager object.

```
enum CBCentralManagerState
```

## Topics

### Constants

[`CBCentralManagerStatePoweredOff`](/documentation/CoreBluetooth/CBCentralManagerState/poweredOff)

A state that indicates Bluetooth is currently powered off.

[`CBCentralManagerStatePoweredOn`](/documentation/CoreBluetooth/CBCentralManagerState/poweredOn)

A state that indicates Bluetooth is currently powered on and available to use.

[`CBCentralManagerStateResetting`](/documentation/CoreBluetooth/CBCentralManagerState/resetting)

A state that indicates the connection with the system service was momentarily lost.

[`CBCentralManagerStateUnauthorized`](/documentation/CoreBluetooth/CBCentralManagerState/unauthorized)

A state that indicates the application isn’t authorized to use the Bluetooth low energy role.

[`CBCentralManagerStateUnknown`](/documentation/CoreBluetooth/CBCentralManagerState/unknown)

The manager’s state is unknown.

[`CBCentralManagerStateUnsupported`](/documentation/CoreBluetooth/CBCentralManagerState/unsupported)

A state that indicates this device doesn’t support the Bluetooth low energy central or client role.

## Relationships

### Conforms To

[`Sendable`](/documentation/Swift/Sendable)

[`Equatable`](/documentation/Swift/Equatable)

[`RawRepresentable`](/documentation/Swift/RawRepresentable)

[`SendableMetatype`](/documentation/Swift/SendableMetatype)

[`BitwiseCopyable`](/documentation/Swift/BitwiseCopyable)

[`Hashable`](/documentation/Swift/Hashable)

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