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In my experience - AirDrop works as expected about 30% of the time. Enough to make it absolutely by far the worst option for file sharing. I don’t even conside
by lostgame 5y ago
In my experience - AirDrop works as expected about 30% of the time. Enough to make it absolutely by far the worst option for file sharing.
I don’t even consider it an ‘option’ anymore while transferring files. I’ll just upload it to my server, since I know - by default - even on the same wifi network, AirDrop is as useful as picking a number in your head and having a friend guess it.
I can’t honestly think of a regular ‘service’ on iOS and MacOS that is as fundamentally broken as AirDrop. I’m not sure what’s so complicated about writing a device to device file sharing service, but - for instance - I just tried to share a file from my Mac to my iPhone. Didn’t work; don’t see my iPhone. Same wifi network - no firewall; no filters. This is a majority of the time.
- watermelon0 5y agoYeah, AirDrop is great when it works. However, when it doesn't work (happens sometimes to me), it cannot be easily fixed.