One of the what's new in iOS 7 es the new way to share files using AirDrop. With this new function, Apple breaks one of its most classic restrictions: prevent users from sharing files directly. Although this new function will not allow you (at least for the moment) to send music or movies to another device, you will be able to send photos, video files, documents ... and it is also a function that third-party applications can use, so you can share files from applications that are compatible. We explain how it works.
In order to use the AirDrop function, both Bluetooth and Wi-Fi must be active. You do not have to be connected to any network, but both functions must be active, so if you have them turned off, when you activate AirDrop they will turn on automatically. AirDrop allows you to select if you want to be visible to all users or only to your contacts, or even deactivate it. We can vary this setting from the Control Center (sliding up on the screen). We activate it on both of our devices to start the transfer.
We are going to find the file that we want to send to the other device. In our example we are going to use a photo of the reel. We must click on the "share" icon in the lower left corner.
You will see different options to share, and we can also select more photos. If we have a device within our reach with AirDrop activated, it will appear directly in the middle of the screen. If it is a device known to your contact in our phonebook, your photo will appear. Click on it to share the files with it.
On the other device (an iPhone 5 in this example) A window will appear asking you to accept the transfer. Once accepted, in a few seconds we will have the imported image on our reel.
It is a function with many possibilities and very comfortable. Although we still do not know how far we can go with her in terms of what files can we transferAt least we already have a way to send them between devices with iOS 7, also very simple and fast. Obviously, the ideal would be that it allows sending to other platforms (Android, Windows Phone, Windows) and without file restrictions, but that will be quite difficult to make it happen.
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Personally, this Airdrop seems like another nonsense, as is the messages between devices with iOS or FaceTime. Among my contacts I have only 4 with an iPhone, that is, this is absurd. When Apple releases Bluetooth completely then we start talking, meanwhile this is nothing more than a toast to the sun. How many times do you use these exclusive services on iOS to the detriment of the universal ones ???
Why the hell ALL other devices if they can send between them and if you have an iPhone this is not possible? The answer is piracy ??? Come on man don't make me laugh. If this were the real problem, Android would have banned the sending of files by Bluetooth for a long time for a simple matter, and this is none other than the overwhelming majority of existing devices have that OS.
I do not share your opinion. I personally can't tell you the countless times I use iMessage to contact my family and friends. Does anyone have an iPhone, an iPad, or both. The same thing happens with FaceTime, I use it very often to talk with my family and friends. AirDrop will be a useful way to share my photos or documents with friends, family, colleagues ...
Of course, it all depends on whether "your people" have an iPhone or not. If it happens that among your acquaintances almost no one uses this system, then I understand that it is of little use to you.
Another issue is piracy. But if you want, we can also talk about that. What does Google care about piracy? Not at all. From the moment it allows applications in its Play Store that allow pirated applications to be downloaded in turn, it shows that Google is only interested in people buying their devices, and if piracy is one more attraction, then the tolerate. Google has banned many apps from its store for other reasons, and yet we all know which apps are used to hack apps, and there they are.
I do not want to defend the absurdity of Apple with its restrictions when it comes to sharing content. I don't understand why I can't play avi files in your video app, or why I can't pass a song to another device via bluetooth or the new AirDrop. But from here to say that these new functions are a toast to the sun ... I do not share.
You say you can't tell the countless times you've used iMessage
to communicate with your family and friends. The truth is that yes, that you
phonebook has to be full of contacts with iOS, because existing
WhatsApp (by the way, before iMessage), it is absurd, in my view,
use such a limited app to the detriment of another that is better, with many more possibilities, and on top of that
universal. That is, you can use with ALL your contacts.
Perhaps FaceTime could be something more interesting but again it will only be useful for those people who, like you apparently, have their agenda full of contacts with iOS. With the 4 contacts that I have with iPhone, iPad, and even a nephew with iPod, I will have used it since it came out 5 or 6 times.
As for AirDrop, I'll answer you in the other comment (the one with the jelly beans, heh, heh, heh).
Piracy… No, if now it turns out that Apple is going to be the world standard-bearer against piracy, right?
The vast majority of flat internet rates include unlimited messages (or almost), so now that WhatsApp people insist on wanting to charge, I use more and more iMessage, because if it is not an iOS device, it sends it as SMS and period . In addition, it is very comfortable for me that many people contact me knowing my email but not my phone number, something that does not happen with WhatsApp. I wouldn't be able to tell you at the end of the day which one I use the most, if WhatsApp or iMessage, despite the fact that the first is universal and the second is not.
Regarding piracy, I think that Apple cannot be accused of promoting it, or even allowing it. Every time a Jailbreak comes out, it covers it, despite the fact that many of us do not use it to hack, but to be able to modify our device at will. And it is not that it is a champion of anything, it is that it has the application store and the most important music store in the world, so obviously what it wants is to protect its own, nothing more. As I told you, Google would be very easy to expel from its application store those that allow piracy, and it does not do so, for a reason.
They are different ways of looking at things, I understand your motives, but they are not universal. I know many people who love iMessage and FaceTime, and there will be many who will be with AirDrop. Others, however, will find that service very short ... everyone has their tastes and needs.
Sorry but the vast majority of flat rates have unlimited SMS ??? Luis, I don't know which company you have, but I'm wrong, the only companies that allow this are Orange (not in all their rates) and Amena (Orange's low-cost subsidiary). That is why your argument is, and sorry, taken by the hair. The cost of WhatsApp for the whole year and on any platform is much lower than if we had to pay for those SMS's.
By the way, do not forget that through WhatsApp you can also send photos, for example, and that would already be an MMS. A single MMS costs more than half that of the subscription to WhatsApp for the whole year, so… iMessage is totally and absolutely absurd with WhatsApp, but this is seen by anyone, for God's sake, really don't go around that you start to look like an Apple Taliban. When Cesar what belongs to Cesar and Apple I took out iMessage to try to take a piece of the cake from WhatsApp but making it incompatible with the rest of the platforms and therefore losing that piece that I wanted to have.
As I have told you before, what I could see interesting is FaceTime but since it can only be used with iOS devices, its usefulness is very, very diminished. I'm not saying that many people use it, you yourself say that with enough assiduity, but you will agree with me that this use if you do not have an agenda full of contacts with iOS is practically testimonial.
Well, nothing, now we consumers are going to understand and defend the economic interests of companies to our own detriment, he says. But let's see Luis, that Bluetooth has been around for many years and FOR ALWAYS it has been possible to send all kinds of files from it, don't tell me man. That Apple wants to protect its songs from iTunes ??? Well, it is very simple, that in terms of music it only allows you to send .mp3 files (which is what we are ALL waiting for), and that's it, I suppose you know that the music you download from iTunes is in ACC format. Thus your store is fully protected. I hope you don't come to tell me that if I allowed this it would be one less song that Apple sells, because then Luis, and I'm telling you without acrimony, I don't know what you're doing here and you're not working with Apple, since your way of defending its absurdity politics in these matters always putting yourself on the side of Apple is too strange.
Finally, of course everyone has their tastes or needs, it would be nice, but using this argument to defend this seems to me even childish companion.
I think we are having a pretty decent conversation, please don't start straying down the path of the "Taliban" anymore, because then I will abandon it. I think I am defending my position, and telling you what my opinion is. The one that speaks well of a service offered by Apple I believe that it is as respectable as that one speaks of its deficiencies.
Vodafone offers unlimited SMS in all its RED rates, and 1000 SMS in the Base rates. Movistar offers unlimited SMS in the Fusion mode and 1000 free SMS per month in its Movistar Total rate. Orange offers 1000 SMS in its Ballena and Delfin rates. I think my statement is not taken by the hair.
I said, that for YOU iMessage is not useful does not mean that it is a toast to the sun. There are A LOT of people who use it and a lot, and it offers things that WhatsApp does not offer, such as the possibility of using it from the computer, iPad or iPhone, associating email accounts instead of mobile numbers. For YOU iMessage will be absurd, for me it is a very useful tool to contact my friends, family and work.
And it seems that you have not understood me. I am not defending Apple's policy on transfers. I'm just saying that as a company that makes a lot of money in terms of the sale of multimedia content, I see it normal that it tries to limit piracy with all the tools it can. Not that I like it, I prefer to have a fully functional Bluetooth or AirDrop, I'm just saying that I see it logical. I remind you that piracy is illegal, and the fact that many people download free content or share free content does not mean that it stops being so. Criticizing a company because it does not allow you to pass a song to a friend, when the "legal" thing would be for them to buy it, it does seem childish to me. What would I like to be able to do? That's another thing.
As an example: Do I criticize the Civil Guard when they give me a fine for going to 140? Is that everyone goes at that speed! Well today it is illegal to go at that speed and therefore, you are fined.
Sorry to intercept your conversation, but I also have to comment on some aspects of Apple:
1) Messages: Today, like Luis, I use this application every day since it offers me the same quality as WhatsApp but with the failure that some of my colleagues do not use WhatsApp (because they do not have a smartphone) but instead use Messages in OS X and Google Groups, for example. Apple gives a solution for iPads for example that cannot use WhatsApp ...
Messages is not absurd, because as I have already told you, WhatsApp cannot be installed on the iPad or iPod Touch
2) The case of the agenda ... In my agenda there are not many people with iOS, but there are many people with Macs and therefore, with Messages. The use of Messages is mandatory in my case since I cannot do without it because a lot of work is carried out by the application.
3) Apple's restrictions: it is clear that Apple vetoes many possibilities that other systems allow such as bluetooth… It turns out that Apple tries to find a new outlet for iPhones / iPod Touch / iPad that cannot use Bluetooth correctly. That is, why if we want to use Bluetooth we have to access piracy if we have other outputs such as AirDrop or the email itself?
4) Facetime: Not only can it be used on iOS but it can also be used on Mac OS X and that's a plus ...
5) Piracy: Let's take the case that someone buys an iPhone and realizes that the purchase has been in vain because they cannot pass files through Bluetooth, do they have to resort to piracy? If you know that the bluetooth is enabled, why buy an iPhone? It is clear that Apple vetoes functions to give a greater outlet to applications such as Messages ...
With this I do not pretend to be the defender of Apple nor the one that is against Android or other platforms ... If not that I currently live with an iPad (Messages) and a smartphone with Android (WhatsApp) and, I use the iPad more since my agenda (as you say) has more contacts with iOS or Mac OS X.
I said, opinions are variable between people!
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Angel Gonzalez
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I share the opinion of comrade Aarancon. Luis, all your contacts have iPhone 5? Because I say this ... correct me if I'm wrong but the AirDrop issue will not be on iPhone 4, let's start discounting contacts, greetings colleagues!
Well, he wasn't just talking about AirDrop, but also iMessage and FaceTime. Not long ago there were few who could use Siri, today there are many more. The same will happen with AirDrop. We are in the second Beta of a new operating system that will be the basis of iOS for the next few years.
Again, I don't want to say that I like Apple's policy on file transfers. But what cannot be denied is that this limit that has existed for years has just been broken. What could have been done better? sure, but that doesn't mean it's not a good change.
Do you know Luis which I think the problem is? Well, if Apple gives us a jelly bean, when what we are waiting for is the big wedding cake, instead of protesting and DEMANDING him to pay attention to us, he uses santa vez, what we do is thank him and defend those little jelly beans (all I say this for your last point and followed). As long as it continues to act like this, Apple will give us what we ask for as it is giving us so far, that is, with a dropper.
For some unknown reason I don't have AirDrop on my iPad, does anyone know why?
Luis, do you have to activate something special to make it work? I activate AirDrop on the iPhone, but it doesn't detect anything on the MBP. The MBP does not appear on the iPhone either.
A greeting.
I think it's not functional on Mac yet… I just think.
Sent from my iPhone
OKAY. Plus, now that I think about it, I'm with Mountain Lion. It is possible that with this version they will not be detected.
What is missing from our iphone is that it has a bluetooth x connection to other devices ... there would be more than the full iphone ...
to its! activate bluetooth and wifi to do it? I am leaving for God !!!
You already have Bluetooth, they only need a tewak
Hello, I agree More «aaracon». Luis Padilla's position also makes me strange (to deny the undeniable). The same thing happens to all of us. We do not have many contacts with Apple (at least here in South America it is like that), so the quality of Apple is diminished by the restrictions that it imposes. How great it would be to release them (like android does). It would definitely double and triple your number of users quickly. Slds - Victor Llamosas
Agree with you «Aarancon»
Hey Luis, I sent my videos from my iMac to my iPad but I don't know where they are in my iPad I can't find them