iOS26 Bluetooth background

Does Bluetooth work in the background in iOS 26?

I am developing an application using Swift+CoreBluetooth on an iPhone 16 (iOS 18) with the original device's Bluetooth peripheral. I have confirmed that it generally works in the foreground (receiving 60 bytes of data at 100Hz intervals), but I am unsure whether it will work in the background on iOS 26 (since I don't have a device), so I would like to ask here. Will it be possible to run it in the background on iOS 26 or later due to security and power issues?

While there might be slight differences in edge case situations, there are no major differences in iOS 26 that will prevent apps being able to perform Bluetooth operations in the background any more than iOS 18.

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