Apple Expanding 10-Minute 'Everyone' AirDrop Limit to All Users With iOS 16.2

[Botts85]

Finally I will not see anymore my neighbors iPhone / iPad / Mac on the Airdrop list when I Airdrop something

That's how I learned my neighbours name 😂

yeah, I think it’s better than the alternative of getting something graphic from a stranger. If you want always receiving use email or iMessage. If it’s a huge 100gb file, I think it should get enough attention to go to control center and Haptic Touch and enable to everyone for 10 mins

But you didn't get a preview unless you accepted it.

I've been on airplanes and in airports when the bulk Airdrops go out, if I'm not expecting one, or don't know the device name, it's just a matter of pressing decline.

 

[wankey]

It's incredibly stupid, the original story had no merit. I'm seriously thinking that nobody actually even wrote about it in China.

Firstly, Chinese people all use WeChat so the idea of having airdrop on for everyone doesn't make sense. There are many many places of anti-government talk on wechat. It's just a cat and mouse game, they use different words for Xi and CCP.

The number of people in China who actually use airdrop and have it on, I would say is minimal. If i take me 100+ family members who all use iPhones or Huawei, the iPhone users, ZERO of them use airdrop. They all use WeChat.

What I think was happening was there were people going around sending out anti-government propaganda to ANYONE who had airdrop on. So a feature that many didn't know had on, suddenly started getting anti-CCP spam by probably a select few people.

This lead to complaints to Apple, and then Apple did something about it.

I'm so tired of westerners that think Chinese are stupid, and don't know. Chinese people are WELL aware of their history, they are WELL aware of chaos times, dictators, emperors, they learn that from birth a vast history of knowledge of how the past was. I would even say Chinese people are more educated than westerners on history as they have far more than we do.

TL/DR: Airdrop story is most likely false, as 100% of Chinese people are on WeChat. Few Chinese even know what airdrop is. More likely is that few bad actors airdropped to people who didn't know they had everyone open, thus complaints from users came in.

 

[iSuzan]

you are lucky you never received any child porn or graph image yet. i thank Apple for doing this

I am.

But still... it was possible before to turn it on only for contacts. And that was the standard afaik.

 

[racerhomie]

That's how I learned my neighbours name 😂

But you didn't get a preview unless you accepted it.

I've been on airplanes and in airports when the bulk Airdrops go out, if I'm not expecting one, or don't know the device name, it's just a matter of pressing decline.

Some people get curious and get to see graphic photos or child porn. Then they sue Apple for not ‘protectin’ them

 

[omihek]

Ok? What if I want it set to Everyone all the time? Don't remove the option, just add a 4th option for Everyone for 10 minutes. It's not like you can only allow 3 options, Apple.

 

[dk001]

Then people would leave it on for everyone,then get porn and graphic images from strangers.Then they would sue Apple for not ‘protecting’ them like AirTags case

Have to call BS on that one. Unless you have something that shows this is the case?
My is always set to everyone and I have seen little to nada bad stuff, hell, any stuff using this avenue.

JME

 

[racerhomie]

Ok? What if I want it set to Everyone all the time? Don't remove the option, just add a 4th option for Everyone for 10 minutes. It's not like you can only allow 3 options, Apple.

They had that, and people keep it at that and get traumatized seeing child porn of graphic images. It’s good to get rid of it. People will have harder time to sue

 

[applesith]

I have never had a problem with this while traveling throughout NYC including the subways and crowded areas.

This looks like a way to coverup the demand from the Chinese Communist Party. Suspicious timing with all the years of AirDrop has been around. Perhaps the CCP was the most aggressive with the demand but other governments may have asked too.

 

[compwiz1202]

I think I always did contacts only. On there, it asked us to approve. I'm guessing it does for everyone too? But I guess it could get annoying to keep getting popups. Now for the teacher student post, they should have a way to add a contact with just the contact name and that you can get airdrop from them. No other contact info needed

 

[developer13245]

At least then, it wouldn’t have made it appear that Apple is in the CCP’s pocket.

Apple has been in the CCP's pocket for a long time. Any doubts about this are delusional.

 

[racerhomie]

I have never had a problem with this while traveling throughout NYC including the subways and crowded areas.

This looks like a way to coverup the demand from the Chinese Communist Party. Suspicious timing with all the years of AirDrop has been around. Perhaps the CCP was the most aggressive with the demand but other governments may have asked too.

Yes, you are lucky we get it. Now say this to the people who received child porn and graphic imagery on your device. You wouldnt be so cheerful

 

[davidg4781]

I guess I’ll have to look for the toggle for this.

I use AirDrop at work to share pics with others who I don’t want to have my phone number.

How embarrassing to have an Apple device and have to dig through settings just to let someone send you a pic. Might as well just have everyone give their phones to the photographer and let them take 10 pics.

 

[JPack]

Gotta love how people actually believe this myth.

Similar to fake news about Pooh bans. When you tell them Disneyland in Shanghai and HK have Pooh attractions and AliExpress sells Pooh cases, their minds are blown.

 

[applesith]

Yes, you are lucky we get it. Now say this to the people who received child porn and graphic imagery on your device. You wouldnt be so cheerful

People who have experienced it and didn't like it can easily change their settings without this forced update.

 

[christian.terra]

For those that prefer to have it set to everyone without a limit, I get that it's a little annoying, but don't you have to unlock your phone anyway and have it in your hand to even get an airdrop? Just swipe down on control center and activate it in one second. It would be different if you could receive them without being near your phone, then it would be really annoying to have to go get your phone and change the setting.

 

[JPack]

It's incredibly stupid, the original story had no merit. I'm seriously thinking that nobody actually even wrote about it in China.

Firstly, Chinese people all use WeChat so the idea of having airdrop on for everyone doesn't make sense. There are many many places of anti-government talk on wechat. It's just a cat and mouse game, they use different words for Xi and CCP.

Hey, let's not drag logic into this!

Kinda of reminds me of how most Americans think the world uses iMessage, when hardly anybody uses it.

 

[PauloSera]

It's not like people can AirDrop malware to your iPhone.

All they had to do was add better privacy/spam protection, not basically ruin AirDrop by making it essentially only a self/contacts feature.

 

[PauloSera]

Hey, let's not drag logic into this!

Kinda of reminds me of how most Americans think the world uses iMessage, when hardly anybody uses it.

Lmao. Ok. If hardly anyone uses, why are there anti-trust actions being pursued against Apple to force them to let everyone else use it?

Only about 1 billion people use it.

 

[unQuestionable]

Can we please have ability to keep “everyone” indefinitely? I prefer to have mine always on.

 

[jz0309]

While I have always “contacts only” as my setting, this is a good move

 

[JPack]

Lmao. Ok. If hardly anyone uses, why are there anti-trust actions being pursued against Apple to force them to let everyone else use it?

Only about 1 billion people use it.

Because EU regulators are proactive. It's a natural follow-up to the App Store investigation. India hit Apple with an antitrust case over in-app payments. India is about as Android dominated as it gets. It doesn't mean the App Store is popular in India.

 

[TKSX]

I turned mine off the minute I get my iphone SE borrowed from my dad (before I made the switch from Android). It's great feature for people to pass information but we have other media platforms (message, Whatsapp) for that. I don't need to receive things from strangers.

 

[jimbobb24]

It's incredibly stupid, the original story had no merit. I'm seriously thinking that nobody actually even wrote about it in China.

Firstly, Chinese people all use WeChat so the idea of having airdrop on for everyone doesn't make sense. There are many many places of anti-government talk on wechat. It's just a cat and mouse game, they use different words for Xi and CCP.

The number of people in China who actually use airdrop and have it on, I would say is minimal. If i take me 100+ family members who all use iPhones or Huawei, the iPhone users, ZERO of them use airdrop. They all use WeChat.

What I think was happening was there were people going around sending out anti-government propaganda to ANYONE who had airdrop on. So a feature that many didn't know had on, suddenly started getting anti-CCP spam by probably a select few people.

This lead to complaints to Apple, and then Apple did something about it.

I'm so tired of westerners that think Chinese are stupid, and don't know. Chinese people are WELL aware of their history, they are WELL aware of chaos times, dictators, emperors, they learn that from birth a vast history of knowledge of how the past was. I would even say Chinese people are more educated than westerners on history as they have far more than we do.

TL/DR: Airdrop story is most likely false, as 100% of Chinese people are on WeChat. Few Chinese even know what airdrop is. More likely is that few bad actors airdropped to people who didn't know they had everyone open, thus complaints from users came in.

Anti-CCP protester communication/propaganda prompted the CCP to talk to Apple and Apple changed the feature. The rest of your post is just filler.

 

[rorschach]

I guess I’ll have to look for the toggle for this.

I use AirDrop at work to share pics with others who I don’t want to have my phone number.

How embarrassing to have an Apple device and have to dig through settings just to let someone send you a pic. Might as well just have everyone give their phones to the photographer and let them take 10 pics.

You don’t have to “dig through settings”. It's right in Control Center, where AirDrop controls have always been, and takes about 3 seconds to turn on.

 

[t0rqx]

This is exactly the BS I posted about not buying an Apple Car (even if I had the money). First introducing great features then limiting them because of whatever reason.