I am looking to extend the range for a device and the only option from a Bluetooth perspective is Coded PHY but I have not heard of any intent to support it from Apple. Does Apple intend to support Coded PHY and if so what is the roadmap?
Roadmap for Coded PHY support in CoreBluetooth
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While there is no roadmap or timeline we can share, making a feature request with a Feedback Report will always help the teams understand the use cases developers are asking for, and will help future planning.
I think I went to the right place to put in a feature request. It has been a while since Coded PHY was announced, so I'm sure Apple is aware of it and has a position on it. It would just be good to hear what it is. I see SoCs get significant range, in one test 500 meters (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANqkKXDzWqo&t=52s One Plus Nord N10 5G phone). I also saw Direction Sounding support in another phone(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sx-6o64206Q Pixel 10). It would be great to hear if these innovations are coming to iPhone.
Is there any progress on this? I am interested in this as a developer of long range peripheral devices to be used with an iOS app.
I can't imagine LE Coded PHY aka BLE Long Range would still not be implemented by the time Bluetooth 6.0 rolls out? Granted, it was an optional feature of Bluetooth 5.x and is still only optional in 6.0
Also, as I understand from discussions elsewhere, an API for specifying PHY previously existed but was dropped (or went missing) a few iOS versions ago?