With Airdrop you can transfer from photos, documents, various files and videos among other things to your Apple mobile devices. You want to know how to use and activate Airdrop? Then keep reading because we are going to explain it step by step.
What is Airdrop for
In a few words, it is a powerful application which will help us to transfer files from iOS to iOS or from iOS to MAC. This way if you have Apple devices and want to transfer various files between devices such as photos, videos, etc. You can do it with this application in a fairly simple way.
How to use Airdrop
Airdrop is what Apple users use the most since it is very easy to use and above all it is quite fast. So in a few minutes you will have all the files you want transferred to another Apple device. In order to use this application you have to follow these steps that we will leave you below.
The first thing you have to do is to activate Airdrop, for this you must slide your finger from the bottom of the screen upwards.
A new options menu appears called “Control center”.
Now you have to press where it says “Airdrop”.
Here are a few options, but we are really only interested in two. The first one is “Only contactsWhat you can imagine is so that only the contacts see the devices. “Everybody”Is exactly what the word says.
How to transfer files with Airdrop
Now you have Airdrop activated. What you should do is go to the photo gallery or select what you want to share and click on the “Share”.
What you should do is select the name of the person to whom you share it.
After doing this, the other person or from the other device. A message appears that must be accepted for the file to be received.
Once accepted, the file appears on the other device.
How to transfer files from iOS to MAC
In case you want transfer files from iOS to MAC. So what you are going to do first is activate Airdrop on MAC. For this you must follow the following steps:
We are going to go to “Finder“And then click on”Go“, To finish click on”Airdrop”.
Again two options appear that interest us. The one to share only with our contacts or with everyone, you can choose all to have access to all nearby devices.
Once the above is ready. You simply have to select the files you want to share. Select them and then click on “Share”.
You choose the person with whom you want to share these files and then that person has to accept on their device for the files to reach their destination.
As you will see, it is not complicated at all and is one of the most used methods by Apple users to share files from one device to another without the need for cables or anything similar. It is fast and above all comfortable.
