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> You'll still need an iPhone, the verification is linked to the specific iPhone, and the specific iPhone is linked to you. Unless you use a friend's iPhone, o

> You'll still need an iPhone, the verification is linked to the specific iPhone, and the specific iPhone is linked to you. Unless you use a friend's iPhone, or an iPhone you 'rented' for 5 minutes for $20 from someone on Craigslist or Facebook Marketplace to take a picture on and then Airdrop to you.

mitxela 19d ago
Buying a new overpriced phone every time you want to take a picture is certainly a decision.
autoexec 18d ago
If they airdrop it to you that typically requires you to have an iphone or a mac and airdrop users are able to be identified and tracked so the photo could still be linked to your device. The EU forced apple to use Wi-Fi Aware though, so unless that's similarly vulnerable people in the EU might be able to avoid those issues.
- propaganja 18d ago
  What? Just send the photo using literally any other method. Am I missing something, or did everyone just waste two minutes of their lives reading this?
  - tmp10423288442 18d ago
    Only wasted two minutes if you read really slowly
- lxgr 18d ago
  Airdrop has been supported on many Android devices even outside the EU for a while now: https://www.android.com/quick-share/with-iphone/ https://www.android.com/quick-share/with-iphone/ Or you could just email/WhatsApp/... it.
- throw0101c 18d ago
  > If they airdrop it to you that typically requires you to have an iphone or a mac […] Perhaps do not be so literal: Airdrop, SMS/MMS/RCS, WhatsApp, Signal, etc: * https://github.com/localsend/localsend https://github.com/localsend/localsend
  - autoexec 18d ago
    I agree, lots of alternatives to the specific one you suggested exist and would probably be better.