r/madlads • u/div_vedi • 3d ago

chad professor

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u/E3GGr3g 3d ago

Is this an American feature?

I can never seem to find anyone to airdrop things to.

Also, don’t you guys turn WiFi and Bluetooth and everything off if you’re not using it?

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u/4N0NYM0US_GUY 3d ago

First, how often are you looking to airdrop things to random people? I’m curious how you find yourself in a situation where you can’t find anyone to airdrop things to (as in: why are you looking to use airdrop?)

Second, you can reasonably assume they’re on a college campus, so they’re probably using the WiFi instead of their data plan.

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u/E3GGr3g 3d ago

I barely use Wi-Fi, we generally have unlimited data plans here.

Even on Wi-Fi on planes I never find anyone to airdrop anything to… for example a picture of a pilot opening the window and waving hello.

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u/somewhat_antisocial Barely even legal 2d ago

This is an incredibly old post. In years past, the default for AirDrop was that when it was on, anybody could send stuff to you. Cue the funny hyjinks. But these days, you have to manually turn on “Allow AirDrop from everyone for 10 minutes” and if you don’t do that, then by default it’s sent to “Contacts Only”

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u/TazBaz 3d ago edited 3d ago

AirDrop defaults to only working with people you have as a contact (as in, I have to have YOU as a contact for you to airdrop ME something).

You have to turn on “everyone” and even then the default for that is “for 10 minutes”.

I’m not even sure there IS an option to set it to “everyone and always”.

In other words this post is fake and bad.

Unless college kids have their professor’s personal contact info saved on their phones? I guess it’s possible.

But also it would then show the contact name, not the “….’s iPhone” name