Unfortunately, we’re not able to test iOS devices, because we just don’t have any iPhone / iPad old enough to support the ANT+ key from a few years back. Let’s look at the commonly used apps, and what they are supporting as of this writing for ANT+. The downside for ANT+ users is that ANT+ is yesterday’s news, and fewer and fewer apps are going to support it, particularly on mobile. Developers are all over the map today with what they are supporting, and we’re getting to the point where the expectation is “mobile first” such that whatever feature exists in a desktop version of an application, customers expect a similar experience in mobile, and vice versa. There have been quite a few posts lately about ANT+, and that’s not surprising. RGT screen testing was also done on Apple TV 4K and iPad Pro 12.9.
On Android, we used native ANT+ support on Samsung Galaxy S6, S8, S9, and s10+. For our testing, we used Garmin ANT+ USB stick on Windows 10 and MacOS Catalina. And introducing The Beast, a 2013 Dodge Charger Pursuit and his Garmin DriveSmart 5. Garmin nuvi 2455 - nuvi 350, 260 (spares) - my other toys: IMac quad-core i3, Mac Mini, MacOS: Mojave 10.14.6/Catalina 10.15.7.
