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AirDrop is great in theory, but in practice 80% of the time I try to send a photo to my partner using AirDrop, it simply fails to bring up a notification on her
by ttul 2y ago
AirDrop is great in theory, but in practice 80% of the time I try to send a photo to my partner using AirDrop, it simply fails to bring up a notification on her devices. In my experience, Apple often delivers well much of the time, but will allow mysterious bugs like this to pervade a feature for years without finding a fix despite much discussion in their customer forums. I wish they did a better job of fixing such problems.
- MyFirstSass 2y agoYes this is so weird. This like photos sync just doesn't work fully for 10+ years, fundamental features that just works 60% of the time often resolving themselves after a few hours or days with no information given. Very weird and very annoying. Especially since they are used by millions of people every hour.
- justinator 2y ago80% of those 20% of the times it doesn't work, it's just because the receiver's phone either doesn't have Bluetooth turned on, or it just isn't unlocked.
- ttul 2y agoAnd the remaining 20%… total mystery.
- justinator 2y ago95% is pretty good when I'm Airdropping, "dumb shit I did last night".
- jmugan 2y agoI even have the same problem from me to me. My phone to my mac. Bluetooth and all that is on.
- Kina 2y agoFWIW, I found LocalSend (https://localsend.org/ https://localsend.org/) to be quite handy especially since it is a cross-platform solution.
- chdefrene 2y agoThere's also https://snapdrop.net https://snapdrop.net which works in the browser
- jimbobthrowawy 2y agoSnapdrop is fantastic. I have an app version installed on my android device so it'll appear in the share menu.