What CoreBluetooth physical layer?

We have a process in our iPhone app that uses CoreBluetooth to transfer a large amount of data over time using Bluetooth LE. Now I'm looking for ways to speed up this process.

From what I have gathered, there is no way to set a preferred phyaical layer (PHY) for CoreBluetooth. How does iOS determine the best PHY to use? Is there any way I can influence it?

I was not able to locate any documentation from Apple mentioning "physical layer" or "phy" for CoreBluetooth, only a brief GitHub Issue for a multiplatform networking library that discussed setting a "PreferredPhy" for iOS.