Your iPhone is getting enhanced Bluetooth tracking with iOS 27 - but there's a catch
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ZDNET's key takeaways
- iPhones will support Bluetooth Channel Sounding in iOS 27.
- Channel Sounding promises secure, fine-ranging Find My device capabilities.
- Although exciting, adoption will be slow -- per usual.
This year's WWDC is over, and now it's time for developers to fine-tune their apps and for early adopters to test them ahead of this fall's public launch of iOS 27. AI dominated the conversation, serving as the foundation for upgrades to Siri, Search, Photos, and more, while some upgrades didn't make it to the keynote.
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One less-discussed iOS 27 feature is support for Channel Sounding, an innovative Bluetooth feature first announced in Bluetooth 6.0, which was released in the fall of 2024. Channel Sounding enables a Bluetooth-enabled device to perform precise...
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