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# IOBluetoothHandsFree

Hands free profile class.

```
class IOBluetoothHandsFree
```

## Overview

Superclass of IOBluetoothHandsFreeDevice and IOBluetoothHandsFreeAudioGateway classes. Contains the common code used to support the bluetoooth hands free profile.

## Topics

### Initializers

[`-  initWithDevice:delegate:`](/documentation/IOBluetooth/IOBluetoothHandsFree/init(device:delegate:))

Create a new IOBluetoothHandsFree object

## Relationships

### Conforms To

[`NSObjectProtocol`](/documentation/ObjectiveC/NSObjectProtocol)

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

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

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

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

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

### Inherited By

[`IOBluetoothHandsFreeAudioGateway`](/documentation/IOBluetooth/IOBluetoothHandsFreeAudioGateway)

[`IOBluetoothHandsFreeDevice`](/documentation/IOBluetooth/IOBluetoothHandsFreeDevice)

### Inherits From

[`NSObject-swift.class`](/documentation/ObjectiveC/NSObject-swift.class)

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