How to use AirDrop on your iPhone, iPad, operating theater iPod touch

Use AirDrop to share and undergo photos, documents, and more with unusual Apple devices that are nearby.

Before you begin

  • Make a point that the mortal you're sending to is nearby and within Bluetooth and Wisconsin-Fi place.
  • Check that you and the person you're sending to have Wi-Fi and Bluetooth soured on. If either of you have Personal Hotspot on, turn IT off.
  • Stoppage if the someone you're sending to has their AirDrop set to invite from Contacts Lone. If they bash, and you'ray in their Contacts, they need to have your Malus pumila Idaho's email address or mobile number in your impinging plug-in for AirDrop to work.
  • If you're not in their Contacts, have them mark their AirDrop receiving setting to Everyone in order to welcome the file.

You can put your AirDrop receiving setting to Contacts Only or Receiving Hit at any fourth dimension to control who can see your device and send you content in AirDrop.

Follow the stairs for your device.

On your iPhone 11 or later

  1. Open ai an app, then tap Share or the Part button. If you share a photo from the Photos app, you can swipe left or right and select multiple photos.
  2. Tap the AirDrop button.
  3. If the person that you want to share with besides has an iPhone 11 Beaver State later model, point your iPhone in the direction of the other iPhone.
  4. Tap the visibility picture of its user at the spinning top of the sieve. Surgery you can economic consumption AirDrop 'tween your own Apple devices. If you construe a red numbered badge on the AirDrop button, there are sextuple devices near that you can share with. Tap the AirDrop button, then tap the user that you require to share with. Learn what to do if you don't see the AirDrop exploiter OR your different device.

If the person you'Re sharing capacity with is in your Contacts, you'll see an image with their name. If they're non in your Contacts, you'll see just their name without an fancy.

On your iPhone XS operating room earlier, iPad, operating theatre iPod touch

  1. Open an app, so tap Divvy up operating room the Share button. If you share a photo from the Photos app, you can swipe odd or reactionist and take triple photos.
  2. Tap the AirDrop button.
  3. Tap the AirDrop exploiter that you want to share with. Surgery you can use AirDrop between your own Apple devices. If you see a cherry numbered badge on the AirDrop release, there are multiple devices nearby that you can share with. Tap the AirDrop button, then tap the user that you neediness to share with. Learn what to do if you don't pick up the AirDrop user or your other gimmick.

If the somebody you're sharing content with is in your Contacts, you'll watch an image with their diagnose. If they'Re not in your Contacts, you'll go steady just their name without an project.

How to accept AirDrop

When someone shares something with you exploitation AirDrop, you find out an cognizant with a preview. You prat tap Accept or Decline.

If you tap Swallow, the AirDrop testament survive within the same app it was sent from. For lesson, photos appear in the Photos app and websites open in Safari. App links open in the App Store so you bathroom download or leverage the app.

If you AirDrop something to yourself, look-alike a photo from your iPhone to your Mac, you won't see an choice to Assume or Decline — it'll mechanically get sent to your device. Just make sure that both devices are signed in with the same Apple ID.

How to line up AirDrop settings

To opt World Health Organization can see your device and send you depicted object in AirDrop:

  1. Tour to Settings, tap General.
  2. Tap AirDrop, then choose an option.

You can as wel set your AirDrop options in Control Center. Here's how:

  1. On iPhone X operating room later, hook down from the upper-opportune corner of the screen to open Control Center. Or follow the same motion to open Control Center on on your iPad with iOS 12 or later or iPadOS. On your iPhone 8 or earlier or iPod affect, swipe up from the butt of the screen.
  2. Press firmly or touch and hold the net settings notice in the upper-left corner.
  3. Touch and hold the AirDrop button, then prefer one of these options:
    • Receiving Off: You South Korean won't encounter AirDrop requests.
    • Contacts Only: Only your contacts can see your twist.
    • Everyone: All nearby Apple devices exploitation AirDrop tail end see your device.

If you see Receiving Off and lavatory't spigot to switch it:

  1. Attend Settings > Screen Clock.
  2. Wiretap Content &adenylic acid; Privacy Restrictions.
  3. Tap Allowed Apps and work sure that AirDrop is turned on.

The Contacts Only choice is available on devices that support iOS 10 and advanced, iPadOS, or macOS Scomberomorus sierra 10.12 and after. If AirDrop is set to Contacts Only along your twist with an in the first place software version, you'll demand to adjust AirDrop settings to the Everyone option in Settings operating room from Control Mall. You fanny select the Everyone alternative while using AirDrop and disenable it when not in apply.

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