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I haven't looked at the OP yet but as convenient as AirDrop is, I find its reliance on both BT and WiFi confusing. One needs both the devices to be connected to
by krtkush 7y ago
I haven't looked at the OP yet but as convenient as AirDrop is, I find its reliance on both BT and WiFi confusing. One needs both the devices to be connected to the same network to be able to able to drop stuff.
Few days back my home router broke down and I was unable to send URLs from my iPhone to Mac just because there was no common network.
I wish for AirDrop to be more like Pushbullet.
- dannyw 7y agoYou just have to be within bluetooth distance; AirDrop doesn't require the same wifi network. It does require wifi to be enabled, because AirDrop creates its own wifi network side channel for the actual transferring of files.
- krtkush 7y agoReally? I'll give it a try again. It was clearly not working for me when the router was down.
- lawtalkinghuman 7y agoYes, I’ve used it to send photos/videos I’ve taken to friends while outside in places where there are no wifi networks.
- tonyedgecombe 7y agoI wonder if it's different if you have it set to "Contacts only". It may need to connect to iCloud.
- darrenf 7y agoI have mine set to Contacts Only, and regularly use it to move photos between iPhone and iPad when on flights (and indeed other locations) without wifi or cellular.
- Kyro38 7y agoYes, no router needed since it relies on Wifi Direct.
- jbverschoor 7y agoYep. But still it’s kind of annoying to have to enable everything. It’s confusing to people who don’t know this.
- ymolodtsov 7y agoEnable what? Modern MacOS/iOS discourage you from disabiling Wi-Fi/Bluetooth anyway.
- jbverschoor 7y agoSome (more and more) people simply have it disabled, because 4G is faster and more reliable than wifi. And if you don't have any bluetooth devices, it will save some batterylife.
- davidmurdoch 7y agoIf you don't connect to a wifi network or any bluetooth devices then the battery savings are negligible, apparently. https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-12271 https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-12271
- Defenestresque 7y agoThis is very interesting to me. Does anyone know if there are material differences between Apple's and Android's implementations (in the battery savings sense)?
- pbhjpbhj 7y agoIs the default to connect to open networks?
- liability 7y ago> Modern MacOS[...] discourage you from disabiling Wi-Fi/Bluetooth anyway. How do you figure? I've never seen any discouragement from it.
- trollied 7y agoIt doesn't need a wifi network, it's direct device-to-device. In fact, it can be much faster than copying using traditional file shares etc, as wireless routers can slow things down.
- jtbayly 7y agoYes. I've been surprised how very fast it is when sharing videos between devices.