It’s the one thing I don’t like about Airdrop

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AirDrop iPhone

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One of the features I love most oniPhoneis Airdrop. If you own a whole ecosystem ofAppleproducts, you can share files between them in a heartbeat. It makes everything work more seamlessly.

Simply tap share on youriPhoneto send a document to youriPad. Sign the document, or annotate it in another way, then share it onto yourMacBookto email it on. Everything is effortlessly simple.

There is one thing I don’t like about it, though. In order to share content to a device, it has to be unlocked. If it isn’t, the device wont show up on the menu as an option.

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There has been no official word on the feature from Google yet. It hasn’t been listed as a new feature as part of any feature drop so far, adding to further mystery around it. If you don’t have the feature just yet, you may just have to wait for when it rolls out to your handset.

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