Heck yeah, that’s what we want to hear. My phone is always warm while using it seems, even if I’m just using it lightly looking at emails or listening to music or whatever. Tasks that the first iPhone was able to do should not be taxing the A19 lol
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iOS 26.2 Adds Temporary AirDrop Access With Shareable Codes
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Personally I dislike that they entirely removed the option to have Airdrop enabled at all times.
I get why they added the 10 minute option as the standard, but cmon, I enjoy random unsolicited memes, let me make my own mistakes and enable airdrop for everyone.
This is a nice addition to the functionality though.
I get why they added the 10 minute option as the standard, but cmon, I enjoy random unsolicited memes, let me make my own mistakes and enable airdrop for everyone.
This is a nice addition to the functionality though.
This is pretty funny, but Apple isn't responsible for your mistake.
This happened to me waaaay too many times when playing online games on my phone, as many options and menus are on the top side of the screen (in horizontal mode).
I’ve previously provided feedback that notifications shouldn’t be to be interacted with less than one second of them popping up but ey, apparently these kinds of suggestions aren’t worth anything if they come from people that don’t work in Cupertino so they can’t possibly be good…
Apple is however responsible for how their software switches up button’s spontaneously.
A button shouldn’t just switch places shortly before pressing it, especially on the share sheet.
I can relate. I accidently sent my di** pic to my mother-in-law.
I need to find my analysis of the situation in China. From what I recall, the government was able to use the always on feature of AirDrop to find out the details of other folks that person had recently shared to. It requires a special spoofing device, but I could see how the 10 minute limit actually protected folks from those methods.
I would imagine that this would protect them that much further, but, again, I need to read up on it again.
I think the only people trying this out at the moment are using a beta, and, at this point, not even a public one. Bugs should be expected, but it’s a good reminder to the folks affected as to what “beta” means.
“I should be able to do whatever I like with my own device.”
runs headlong into
“Apple should prevent me from doing some things with my device.”
Good to see more options. Will be useful for me. Sometimes my older devices are not recognized immediately and I hope this might fix it to some extent.
Yes, AirDrop needs to be closed. But that’s why I think an option of bring able to very termopary open AirDrop could be very useful. An option might be to have to define individual files as „sharable” - A file cannot be potentially shared unkess flagged by the user as such, separate from during the sharing process, over AirDrop or any other method.
It sounds laborous, , but it would prevent accidentally Shaaringg while still having the means to share files without having to jump in and out of AirDrop Settings (which is what I do now).
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I want to use AirDrop multiple times each day. It works only about 70% of the time. Fix that.
Sorry, you are still the one who made the mistake.
I all the years/times that I have used AirDrop, not once did I send a pic or video to anyone but the intended recipient. Go figure.
Maybe you didn’t, because you don’t work in a studio with 20+ iDevices that keep moving around…
Maybe you didn’t have problems for many years because devices and users have only been organized by distance for a couple of years…
Maybe your use cases are simply different than others??
If I am just about to send someone something that sits across the room and then someone steps in between us, how is it my fault that the icons rearrange on their own? Elaborate, please. I’d like to see what the user could do differently in that case.
How about this, if AirDrop is so bad and confusing, maybe leverage another way of sending the item? iMessage? Email?... Problem solved! Nobody forcing you to use AirDrop
Have a great day!
🤣 Not sure that's an Apple fault but maybe next time you're doing that, say to the person first: "oh hey, stay there whilst I send you a d**k pic"
I encountered such a situation traveling to the Grand Canyon last week. I took an interesting photo and a person close by but not in my contacts list asked for a copy of the pic. So, there's one simple example. That said, a 30 day span seems unnecessary.
No, in this case the other person selects the option to turn it on for 10 minutes (I can't recall if you also need to do the same), you send the photo and then turn it off again or set it to contacts only.
I didn’t say AirDrop itself is bad, I didn’t say it’s confusing. Stop putting words into my mouth.
It’s not my fault you can’t accept that other people make experiences you don’t.
Using a different method doesn’t solve anything, especially when you have to move files that are each multiple gigabytes in size and need to share them asap. You really wanna claim that AirDrop and eMail/iMessage are equally useful for fast, simple and lossless data transfer?
We’d both have a much better day if you could stop arguing and were honest to yourself and accept that other people may experience problems you don’t…
You don’t win anything by putting the blame on random users on the internet and then not being able to explain why it’s their fault and what they could do differently, except for everything.