Permissions-Policy: bluetooth directive

Limited availability

This feature is not Baseline because it does not work in some of the most widely-used browsers.

Experimental: This is an experimental technology
Check the Browser compatibility table carefully before using this in production.

The HTTP Permissions-Policy header bluetooth directive controls whether the current document is allowed to use the Web Bluetooth API.

Specifically, where a defined policy disallows use of this feature, the methods of the Bluetooth object returned by Navigator.bluetooth, will block access:

Syntax

http
Permissions-Policy: bluetooth=<allowlist>;
<allowlist>

A list of origins for which permission is granted to use the feature. See Permissions-Policy > Syntax for more details.

Default policy

The default allowlist for bluetooth is self. The top-level browsing context and same-origin iframes are allowed access to the bluetooth feature by default.

Examples

Basic usage

SecureCorp Inc. wants to disallow bluetooth within all cross-origin iframes except those whose origin is https://example.com. It can do so by delivering the following HTTP response header to define a Permissions Policy:

http
Permissions-Policy: bluetooth=(self "https://example.com")

SecureCorp Inc. must also include an allow attribute on each <iframe> element where bluetooth is to be allowed:

html
<iframe src="https://example.com/blue" allow="bluetooth"></iframe>

Note: Specifying the Permissions-Policy header in this manner disallows bluetooth for other origins, even if they are allowed by the <iframe> allow attribute.

Using the default policy

If an allowlist for bluetooth is not defined by a Permissions-Policy response header, user agents will apply the default allowlist self. In this mode, bluetooth is automatically allowed in the top-level browsing context and same-origin iframes, but not in cross-origin iframes.

To allow bluetooth in a cross-origin iframe, include an allow attribute on the <iframe> element:

html
<iframe src="https://other.com/blue" allow="bluetooth"></iframe>

Specifications

Specification
Web Bluetooth
# permissions-policy

Browser compatibility

desktop mobile
Chrome
Edge
Firefox
Opera
Safari
Chrome Android
Firefox for Android
Opera Android
Safari on iOS
Samsung Internet
WebView Android
WebView on iOS
bluetooth
Experimental
Chrome – Full support
Chrome 104 (Release date: 2022-08-02)
footnote Full support
Edge – Full support
Edge 104 (Release date: 2022-08-05)
footnote Full support
Firefox – No support
Firefox
footnote No support
Opera – Full support
Opera 90 (Release date: 2022-08-18)
footnote Full support
Safari – No support
Safari
footnote No support
Chrome Android – Full support
Chrome Android 104 (Release date: 2022-08-02)
footnote Full support
Firefox for Android – No support
Firefox for Android
footnote No support
Opera Android – Full support
Opera Android 71 (Release date: 2022-09-16)
footnote Full support
Safari on iOS – No support
Safari on iOS
footnote No support
Samsung Internet – Full support
Samsung Internet 20 (Release date: 2023-02-10)
footnote Full support
WebView Android – Full support
WebView Android 104 (Release date: 2022-08-02)
footnote Full support
WebView on iOS – No support
WebView on iOS
footnote No support

Legend

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Full support
Full support
No support
No support
Experimental. Expect behavior to change in the future.

See also