AirDrop

“I prefer stable and always working AirDrop first”

“in 99% cases of big files I'll just airdrop the files!”

“in 99% cases of big files I'll just airdrop the files”

“I want my desktop and mobile systems to have a widely deployed system for beaming files and text quickly.”

“It's almost always faster than anything else available”

“With Google reverse engineering Airdrop, I hope they can get the Android macOS experience to finally work correctly soon as well”

“Saying this like Airdrop isn't one of Apple's most bulletproof "just works" features ever”

“It doesn't work outside iOS so if you know any Android users you are quickly out of luck”

“Airdrop has not felt reliable to me all the time, and completely fails on anything larger than a picture or short video.”

“The main point of AirDrop is you can share between two devices with or without LAN, with or without internet.”

“AirDrop is fantastic for sharing files with people you don't know/just met”

“Airdrop and Localsend achieve speed by using local wifi networks.”

“the fact that Airdrop handles it is what makes it so frictionless to use”

“With Airdrop you have trivially easy, "just works" sharing with people in proximity.”

“with iOS 17.1 or later, AirDrop transfers will continue to work if you go out of Wi-Fi range during the transfer”

“creates and handles that local network automatically under the hood”

“selects the fastest available connection between the devices and ability to work without both devices being on the same network”

“I do the same all the time and always airdrop from phone to my laptop after taking a pic”

“I only use the phone bumping feature when AirDrop is broken and won't detect I'm literally right next to my spouse.”

“point-to-point and neither require internet connection, nor is the data send through a third party or network”

“KDE has a better solution than Windows, and I find that totally insane. I use it on Windows, too!”

“Airdrop on my iphone currently has this weird bug where if I try and airdrop directly to a target”

“It has worked for me every time, at least on iOS 18. It used to conk out when storage is low.”

“it's been 5 years probably since I had an issue with it, and I use it quite a bit”

“It has a less than 50% success rate with me, and that makes it sound better than it is.”

“I didn't find AirDrop to work very well while trying to airdrop only 1TB of photos/videos from my phone to my MacBook”

“So far I've had superb success rate on iOS18.”

“The main point of Airdrop is that it doesn't need Internet connectivity and won't use any metered data”

“When it works, it works great. When it doesn't work, you have zero visibility into what's happening or what went wrong”

“AirDrop is a peer-to-peer protocol, both the recipient and initiator need to explicitly take action”

“I’ve been using AirDrop to send files between different mames of iOS phone and tablet for ages.”

“We usually see about 10 GB per minute, which is really fast”

“I've transferred ~1 GB disk images over AirDrop in a couple seconds.”

“I have as recently as last week transferred 1GB video files in under 20 seconds using airdrop.”

“I used it to move entire folders from my Mac to an account-less iPad with no Internet connection.”

“AirDrop uses P2P wifi for the actual transfer which can make it significantly faster than transferring through the internet”

“I just airdropped 130 photos from my phone to my coach and I was sure it would take forever.”

“I've used it multiple times while hiking and outside normal cell phone tower range.”

“It seems that this is directional, flowing from Android to Apple but not necessarily back”

“AirDrop is cool because it works offline with relatively high bandwidth using local RF”