AirDrop is a Apple proprietary technology which is very commonly used among users from the big apple to transfer images and files easily. This technology is only available for Apple devices and makes use of Bluetooth and Wi-Fi. The arrival of iOS 16.1.1 a few days ago launched an alert after the integration of a new option within AirDrop for Chinese users in which a new sharing option was added: "For everyone for 10 minutes." These AirDrop improvements are aimed at to avoid spam that usually appears in crowded places and it is likely that it will reach the whole world in the coming months.
AirDrop will improve to avoid the usual spam
If you have an iPhone or an iPad, it has surely happened to you that you had activated AirDrop for all users and they wanted to send you funny or bad taste images in crowded places such as concerts, shopping centers or airplanes. This is just one more example of how spam can also arrive through this type of technology.
This happens because AirDrop has a configuration of three options: activate AirDrop for all users (without control), only for your contacts or deactivate the reception. Until now, when we activated AirDrop for all users it was activated permanently thus allowing the possibility of receiving files from any device.
In the wake of anti-government information being sent in China, Apple has updated the AirDrop options in iOS 16.1.1 by changing the receiving option for all users to reception for all users for 10 minutes. After that time has elapsed, the setting will automatically change to “Contacts only”.
Thanks to Apple's contact with the analyst Mark Gurman we know that Apple is planning big changes to AirDrop With the aim of avoiding this spam that for more than 10 years, since the launch of the technology, users are suffering under certain conditions.
