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Recently started using it, it works really well and it's much more reliable than AirDrop. But the UX could be improved. But I just wish Apple fixed AirDrop, ev
by a7fort 5mo ago
Recently started using it, it works really well and it's much more reliable than AirDrop. But the UX could be improved.
But I just wish Apple fixed AirDrop, every time I go to use I have so little confidence in it, it often doesn't see devices or if you have multiple Mac users it will confuse them, showing you the same Mac device twice without telling you which user it is
- dmak 5mo agoHave you tried troubleshooting those issues already? I had similar visibility issues in the past, but seems to always work now for me.
- tonyedgecombe 5mo agoI think it initiates the connection over Bluetooth so if your Bluetooth is poor it isn’t going to work very well.
- OGWhales 5mo agoYup, for me I can see the device but when I try to initiate a send it just doesn't show up on the other device about half the time. I've not found a reliable way to fix it either, toggling AirDrop on and off on both devices seems the best way to fix it but only works like 70% of the time.
- d3Xt3r 5mo agoI'm curious, what do you people use this for? What are all these (presumably large) files that you guys are generating and transferring, that requires the use of apps like these? Like in my case, the only files I generate on my phone are photos and videos, and these get backed up by Immich, which I can then share with someone by sending them a link to the files/album in question. I imagine normal folks would use iCloud or Google Photos for the same task. For syncing other files like documents and such, I use ownCloud OCIS, and I'd imagine most other folks would use something like DropBox or iCloud, or even just email or WhatsApp the files. For local network transfers of say ISOs or something, I'd just copy them over SMB, which is pretty much universal and doesn't need any special app. Or even just plug in a hard drive, if I'm doing backups. So I don't understand why I should be using this.
- michaelscott 5mo agoFor me, video is the main one. Sizes from 100MB - 3GB. Getting videos from an Apple device to an Android is a pain in the ass because I need to 2FA log in or click through something relatively convoluted (Dropbox, GDrive) or deal with pulling out some hardware I use once every 100 years (external drives). Localsend is a 2 or 3 click operation and very robust.
- inquirerGeneral 5mo agoLuckily, Google enabled Airdrop inside of Quick Share so my phones and my MacBook and my Windows PC all can share now.
- internet_points 5mo agomy kid recently wanted to transfer a picture from an iPad drawing app to a windows laptop, I wish I knew about localsend for that
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- Scarbutt 5mo agoSilly apple. They should remove airdrop and tell users they have to rely on an internet connection and use whatsapp or email for quick, one-off file transfers between their iphones and macbooks.
- energy123 5mo agoSending plain text from one device to another. I was debugging my steamdeck and I send code snippet from desktop chatgpt to steamdeck using Localsend to run. Then I send the debug output (also plaintext) back to desktop to ask chatgpt what to try next. Other than this, random small files from time to time. The app is lightweight and just works.
- Obscurity4340 5mo agoThreema's better for that use case