VisionOS 27 Custom Spatial Accessories ASA Host Version remains 0.0

I am implementing a custom generic spatial accessory according to Section 20 of the Accessory Design Guidelines dated 2026-06-08. Apple Vision Pro discovers the accessory, completes BLE pairing and encryption, reads the Apple Spatial Accessory Version and Uniform Type Identifiers characteristics, and recognizes the device in the accessory tracking debug view. However, visionOS writes ASA protocol version 00.00 to the Apple Spatial Accessory Host Version characteristic instead of selecting version 01.01.

Here is the log message when I connected my spatial accessory with apple vision pro with os27 beta 3. The error is the ASA part.

BLE advertising: ZemScannerASA15; BLE ATT MTU tx=23,rx=23; BLE conn timing connected: interval=30000; us,latency=0,timeout=72; TimeSync anchor report enabled: h=0x011f; BLE connected TimeSync anchor #1 ce=0,int=30000,delay=0 TimeSync anchor #2 ce=3,int=30000,delay=0 TimeSync anchor #3 ce=4,int=30000,delay=0 BLE ATT MTU tx=293,rx=65 BLE security level 2 BLE pairing complete, bonded ASA version read #1 off=0 req=64 hex=02 01 01 01 01 ASA UTI read #2 off=0 req=64 total=49 ASA host wr #3 o=0 l=4 f=00 hex=00 00 01 31 ASA host raw: off=0,write=4,total=4,hex=00 00 01 31 ASA host version: >len=4,ver=0.0,features_len=1,features=0x31 ASA host selected no common protocol HID direct input report sent HID notif #4 report=3 enabled HID IMU stream started HID notif #5 report=2 enabled HID IMU report sent BLE conn params updated: interval=7500 us,latency=4,timeout=100

Hi @ZemLi,

Your Versions payload (02 01 01 01 01) parses correctly and advertises a single ASA protocol version, 1.1. Current visionOS 27 builds appear to support only ASA protocol version 1.0, so there is no overlap with what your accessory advertises, and your log reflects this with "ASA host selected no common protocol." This looks like a gap between the current Accessory Design Guidelines (which specify 1.1) and what visionOS 27 beta 3 has implemented.

A workaround worth trying: advertise 1.0 (payload 02 01 00 01 01).

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VisionOS 27 Custom Spatial Accessories ASA Host Version remains 0.0
 
 
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