Apple's latest update to iPhones brings an update to AirDrop functionality, specifically tailored for sending files over to non-contact iPhone users.

Though it’s been around for the better part of a decade, AirDrop isn’t a feature many Apple users are aware of. Those who have heard of it probably think it sounds unnecessary or even overwhelming.

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is a former senior reviewer who worked at The Verge from 2011 until May 2025. His coverage areas included audio, home theater, smartphones, and more. What’s great about AirDrop is its simplicity.

AirDrop has been around for more than a decade, providing Apple users a quick and easy way to share files between devices—when it chooses to work, anyway. You can use AirDrop to send everything from ...

Apple’s AirDrop is brilliant: it enables fast transfer of even large files between iPhone, iPad and Mac, without the need for a wifi network to make it possible. If there’s a downside, it’s that it ...

AirDrop is a handy way of transferring files and photos from Mac to iPhone, iPhone to Mac, iPhone to iPad, and so on. But it doesn’t always work. In this article we’ll look at some reasons why you ...

Not to beat up on AirDrop or anything, but not all Macs can use the zero-configuration file sharing technology from Apple. In order to use AirDrop, you must have a a newer Mac, like a MacBook Pro from ...