# Bluetooth BLE. How to check if a phone's Bluetooth is turned on before Thunkable BLE Scan **URL:** \ **Category:** Feature Requests\ **Created:** [January 20, 2025, 2:36pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/bluetooth-ble-how-to-check-if-a-phones-bluetooth-is-turned-on-before-thunkable-ble-scan/3494663 "2025-01-20T14:36:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 2
**Author:** ![matt\_conroy](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/matt_conroy/32/150843_2.png) [@matt\_conroy](https://community.thunkable.com/u/matt_conroy)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2025, 9:44pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/bluetooth-ble-how-to-check-if-a-phones-bluetooth-is-turned-on-before-thunkable-ble-scan/3494663/2 "2025-01-20T21:44:24Z")
Hi tonykellymailzqnnbv, welcome to Thunkable! 🎉 Be sure to check out [How to ask Great Questions v2.0](https://community.thunkable.com/t/how-to-ask-great-questions-v2-0/2689983/1), the [Community Guidelines](https://community.thunkable.com/t/community-guidelines/78/8), and our [Getting Started Guide](https://docs.thunkable.com/getting-started/get-started) to make the best of your Thunkable Community experience! This is unfortunately not something we can do natively yet with the Blocks. You may be able to do a bit of a work-around by checking for the RSSI value via a scan and if that is equal to zero (effectively saying it is off), then abort the attempt to connect and do something else. ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/thunkable/original/3X/4/f/4ff44de90d320e0cb80f464f7131525540e2c37a.png) --- _[View the full topic](https://community.thunkable.com/t/bluetooth-ble-how-to-check-if-a-phones-bluetooth-is-turned-on-before-thunkable-ble-scan/3494663)._