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Using AirDrop on an iPhone is a pretty
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straightforward and simple matter. Go to
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your photos, select the image you want
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to share, tap this upwards pointing
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arrow button here, and this is airdrop.
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Tap on it. Now, any available iPhones in
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your vicinity will be listed here. I
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don't have any available but assume that
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you have an another iPhone or compatible
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Android phone because Android phones are
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now gaining the airrop feature. If you
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have a Google Pixel 10 series, a Samsung
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Galaxy S26 series and other devices will
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be added to the list. You can airdrop to
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those devices as well. So if you have an
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airdrop compatible Android phone or an
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iPhone with you, you will see a list of
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those devices here and then you select
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which one you want to send to and it
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goes through. Now in some cases if
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you're having problem sending, if you
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can't see devices nearby, you can try
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holding the top of this iPhone near
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another. So you can try something like
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this with another iPhone or compatible
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Android smartphone. Hold them close
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together. To understand how Airdrop
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works in case you keep having
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challenges, it's time to explain to you
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how it works. Airdrop uses a combination
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of Bluetooth and Wi-Fi, but it does not
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necessarily need an internet connection.
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So what happens when two devices find
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themselves? They find themselves through
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Bluetooth. So you have to make sure your
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Bluetooth is on on both devices. And
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once they find themselves, they create a
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peer-to-peer Wi-Fi connection. In other
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words, a local device to device Wi-Fi
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connection. And it is over that Wi-Fi
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connection that the file is transferred.
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Of course, a fallback mechanism has been
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built into AirDrop that allows it to
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also send over the internet in case that
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local connection fails, but the local
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connection usually works. And it's
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pretty fast because it's based over
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Wi-Fi. You can enable AirDrop to use
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mobile data and to use an internet
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connection when everything else fails.
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here in your iPhone settings. All you
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have to do when you open the settings
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app, type AirDrop to see the settings
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for AirDrop. And then here you can turn
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off receiving. You can say only for your
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contacts. And then you have to be signed
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into iCloud to be discoverable by
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contacts only. And you can say anyone
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can see my device for 10 minutes. So, if
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you're trying to airdrop to another
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iPhone or compatible Android phone and
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it's not working, check in the settings
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of both devices, especially the
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receiving device, that he can see
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everyone or everyone can see it for 10
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minutes. Enable this. Usually, that
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solves your problem. There is the option
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to also bring devices together. You
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remember I mentioned earlier that if
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you're having trouble sending, you can
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bring the devices together. Yes, that
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option is enabled. I have explained the
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mobile data angle to you as well. It's a
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fallback measure. If the peer-to-peer
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Wi-Fi connection is not created. So this
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is how airdrop works. The two devices
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find one another through Bluetooth then
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they create a peer-to-peer a deviceto
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device Wi-Fi connection over which the
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files are transferred whether it's
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picture a document or video whatsoever.
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It's pretty fast and it goes through in
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moments. That's how it works. Let me
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know if this video was helpful to you in
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using AirDrop on your iPhone or
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compatible Android smartphone. It works
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the same way on iPhone and Android.
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