How many devices we can pair via Bluetooth to iPhone?

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Brijesh Singh picture Brijesh Singh · Jun 24, 2013 · Viewed 30.7k times · Source

Can anyone tell me how many devices can we pair via Bluetooth to iPhone at a time..need help..till now i have not got the exact number.

Answer

Tommy Devoy picture Tommy Devoy · Jun 24, 2013

As it stands in iOS 6.1.4, the current limit for Bluetooth Low Energy devices is 10 simultaneous CONNECTIONS (at least on the NRF8002 chipset). Although the BLE spec says it can in theory have an infinite number of connections, the connection will time out when you try to add an 11th device.

As for the pairing table, I've previously had two additional a2dp devices in my pairing table(not connected) and 10 current BLE connections as the maximum. So that is a total of 12 devices in the pairing table on an iPhone 5 running iOS 6.1.4. You could probably have more devices listed in the pairing table, but the one definite is 10 connections is the current max.

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