Turning on Bluetooth programmatically Swift

Question

I am trying to turn on Bluetooth automatically using my app. The usual way would be for the user to go to settings and turn on. But I need to to be turned on from the app. I have gone through lots of documentation and they are referring to private APIs but all are very old. I do not mind that it's not going to be approved at App Store.

Is there any way to turning on Bluetooth programmatically?

You can't turn on/off bt programmatically, but you can view the bt state and prompt the user to turn it on. Read this: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/23833757/any-way-to-turn-on-bluetooth-programmatically-on-ios7 — smukamuka, Apr 23 '19 at 09:28
there are private APIs which could work previously, correct? I would like to use them but most of them are outdated — L.William, Apr 23 '19 at 09:38

Hitesh Surani · Answer 1 · 2019-04-23T10:25:41.853

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Is there any way or hack to turning on Bluetooth programmatically?

There is no provision to turning on Bluetooth programmatically. We can only notify user If the user has turned off Bluetooth all you can do is display an alert or message asking them to turn it on.

Refer CBCentralManager for monitoring Bluetooth state.

edited Apr 23 '19 at 10:25

answered Apr 23 '19 at 09:28

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score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 24 '19 at 02:13

To the community, sorry for the frustration but I am posting the answer myself now for devs in the future in case anyone needs to know. Just felt the community can do alot better than this, Stacksoverflow was supposed to be a community where devs help each other. IT CAN be done, however it's by private framework which CAN BE FOUND. An example would be using BeeTee, https://github.com/michaeldorner/BeeTee . It enables bluetooth to be turned on and the usage is given there by

class Demo: BeeTeeDelegate {
let beeTee = BeeTee()

init() {
    beeTee.delegate = self
    beeTee.enableBluetooth()
  }
}

Yes, but it says that "Based on the AppStore guideline §2.5 on private (undocumented) functions it is not possible to publish apps with the BeeTee and BluetoothManager.framework in the AppStore.". It worths mentioning. — malvarez, Aug 16 '19 at 16:05

Turning on Bluetooth programmatically Swift

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