Introduction

Describes the Apple Media Service Bluetooth service.

Dependencies

The AMS has no dependencies, apart from the standard set of Generic Attribute Profile (GATT) sub-procedures. An accessory acting as a GATT client is free to access and use other services provided by the iOS device while using the AMS.

Endianness and String Encoding

Unless specified otherwise, all numerical values transmitted through the AMS must be little endian. Unless specified otherwise, all string values transmitted through the AMS must be composed of unicode characters encoded with UTF-8.

Terminology

In this document the Apple Media Service is referred to as the AMS .

The publisher of the AMS service (the iOS device) is referred to as the Media Source (MS) .

Any client of the AMS service (an accessory) is referred to as a Media Remote (MR) .