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I support this change. It's a simple but significant improvement to the basic usability of AirDrop. It's conceivable that Apple came up with this simple usabili
by tshaddox 4y ago
I support this change. It's a simple but significant improvement to the basic usability of AirDrop. It's conceivable that Apple came up with this simple usability improvement, publicly announced it, then rolled it out deliberately to hamper the efforts of protesters in China, but I think it's more likely to be a coincidence.
- gnicholas 4y agoHow is it an improvement if it prevents users from doing what the service has allowed since day one? This is even worse than their disable-wifi setting, which (when toggled from the Control Center) only disables wifi until the end of the day. You have to go to the Settings app to disable wifi (and perhaps also Bluetooth?) permanently. But the AirDrop change makes it even worse. There is nowhere you can go to make this setting stick. There is no reason to remove this option.
- tshaddox 4y agoI’m not saying there aren’t use cases for both options (permanently opening AirDrop to everyone and opening AirDrop to everyone for 10 minutes). I’m just saying that the temporary option is a huge usability improvement and a very reasonable default. And I think the exact same thing about the Wi-Fi setting. On the rare occasions that I want to turn Wi-Fi off I usually add a reminder to turn it back on when I get home.