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That’s been my experience, too. I feel like I’m in some cargo cult suggesting it to others. “We’ll just do these steps and poof it will be on your machine! One
by toddmorey 3y ago
That’s been my experience, too. I feel like I’m in some cargo cult suggesting it to others.
“We’ll just do these steps and poof it will be on your machine! One second… Hang on… let’s try again…”
- reidjs 3y ago9/10 times they haven't set the permissions to receive files through airdrop. It used to be open, but that was a huge security vuln. People could just airdrop whatever picture they wanted to all the iPhones on an airplane for example
- andylynch 3y agoThere was also a certain amount of regulatory pressure brought to bear; Hong Kongers were using AirDrop to great effect in outwitting the authorities during the 2019-2020 protests
- lxgr 3y agoThat's 0/10 for me: I know I have the correct permissions set up with my friends (because we can usually Airdrop each other), but sometimes it just spuriously does not work.
- mhink 3y agoOne thing I've noticed when AirDropping pictures to my wife is that the recipient needs to have their phone _unlocked_. That was definitely somewhat confusing when I first started using the feature.
- ElCapitanMarkla 3y agoHad this exact thing happen tonight. I wanted to airdrop some photos to my MacBook, worked from my partners phone but my phone just wouldn’t send them. My phone and laptop could see each other in airdrop but they refused to send / accept the photos. Ended up texting it to myself in iMessage and opening that on the MacBook.
- zitsarethecure 3y agoI call this the "What is a computer?" effect.