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iOS 26 Adding Two New Wi-Fi Features, Allows AirDrop and AirPlay Alternatives
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I wonder if this can allow much better cross platform airdrop between iOS and Android
Will captive assist come to tvOS? Seems missing, and would be exactly how this should work as I pop my Apple TV into the hdmi port on a hotel tv.
AirDrop for me is the most frustrating Apple tech right after Siri. It is completely and utterly unreliable. My wife and I have both 15 Pro Maxes running the same software on the same wifi but the operability of AirDrop is like, "Let's see if it works this time" Sometimes it does but very often it doesn't. And no error message beyond "Didn't work" Very frustrating. So I'm glad to see that they have to open it up.
Really Apple should also implement the Bluetooth OBEX standard for sending files. The code is already there in the Bluetooth stack on Mac OS
Thought so too. That's the way I used captive networks with my appletv in hotels - set the mac address of my laptop to the one of the appletv and then login with that. But it seems like now you can do the password-stuff on ipad/iphone while using the connection of the appletv-so, no more fakery needed. Maybe this new feature works similar but logs on automatically?
Another win for the EU! Say what you want but this never would have happened otherwise.
Same goes for USB C, cloud gaming, emulators, payments outside the AppStore, third party nfc, alternate AppStores, RCS, need I go on?
Same goes for USB C, cloud gaming, emulators, payments outside the AppStore, third party nfc, alternate AppStores, RCS, need I go on?
The inability to easily transfer files from my Samsung to my mac and vice versa is a major pain point for me. It'll be a disappointment if it doesn't come to the mac too. I can workaround it (phone-ipad-mac), but that's not as elegant as direct transfer I'd love it across all devices.
Overall positive, but hhere's hoping it's going to be much more so.
Could Wi-Fi Aware be used to develop a meshed messaging system that allows nodes without internet access to connect via other nodes that do have internet access? Thus allowing messaging in congested environments?
Look into this its not as good as the official quick share for windows because it is only one way and relies on your mac being on the same network as your phone but it works.
How to use Quick Share on a Mac
Use Quick Share to send files from an Android phone to a macOS computer.
www.xda-developers.com
How can even just one single person be against that? No serious, how? Are you so much brainwashed to hate the EU?
Is there a name for an existing standard that supports this or is it something that still needs to be developed?
You could build a full mesh on iOS layering in your own routing overlay (BATMAN, OLSR, Babel, etc.) and uplink detection. But you’ll need to stitch those pieces together yourself ontop of the Wi-Fi aware 4.0 standard.
Some apps (Briar, Serval) does parts of this on Android, but no single spec or library yet does it all out of the box.