Airdrop is my top favorite feature on Apple devices. Sure, the iPhone's camera ability is unbelievable. Face ID is a great security function, and Siri is extremely helpful.

If you have an iPhone, the solution is simple: use AirDrop. Yes, the same feature that lets you quickly and easily share ...

Transferring files and photos between Apple devices is easy with AirDrop, but sometimes it can fail. Here are a few ways to ...

The Dynamic Island can display notifications for Apple Pay transactions, low battery warnings, AirDrop transfers, and much ...

Security researchers warned Apple as early as 2019 about vulnerabilities in its AirDrop wireless sharing function that Chinese authorities claim they recently used to track down users of the ...

Apple Inc. AAPL was reportedly informed of potential security vulnerabilities in its AirDrop feature before the feature was allegedly breached by China’s Beijing Institute, as per information ...

Apple has updated every Home Screen app icon in iOS 26. As of beta 5, AirDrop has undergone the same redesign for its icon in the share sheet.

Separately, Apple has just been granted a patent for a version of AirDrop. It would use light instead of Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, and would consequently be both faster and more secure.

Apple AirDrop has an advantage because the Chinese government censorship only works on the internet. With AirDrop, however, data moves locally in a kind of ad hoc network between two devices.

Apple is fantastic at marketing itself as a company that cares first and foremost about its users. I don’t particularly like opening Android to every third-party player, either.