Hi Breck,
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It was my understanding that the HIDemukbd sample was the HID keyboard example that interfaces directly into IOS devices (with Bluetooth 4 or above) and shows up as a hid compliant keyboard. ie No apps necessary. Is this not true?
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I'm afraid you got it wrong. There's (at least currently) no native support for HID over GATT in iOS. And there's (at least currently) no way to have an app insert keypresses as if it were the OS. I don't know why this is. But since multiple apps can share access to a BLE peripheral at the same time via CoreBluetooth, I can't see why Apple can't in the future let the OS also use a BLE HID keyboard as input device.
Best regards,
Aslak