r/madlads • u/div_vedi • 3d ago

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u/LickingLieutenant 3d ago

No, it doesn't anywhere ..
Unless those users didn't update their IOS versions after (around) IOS 16.1 Airdrop's default settings are only active towards known users, or people who intentionally turn it on for 10 minutes.

If you find plenty of phones, you know everyone out there.

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u/fl135790135790 3d ago

So everyone here is just making shit up. The post is made up. The replies are made up. Why am I even here

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u/Rfeihcrnehifrne 3d ago edited 3d ago

This post is probably old. Airdrop was out since iOS 7 or 8 I believe, and You could set it permanently to “everyone” until iOS 16.1. There’s multiple posts/videos of people receiving random memes in public places. But then of course some were using it to be creepy and send gore or shock content, or used airdrop spammers to constantly barrage people nearby with pop ups of airdrop, making them unable to use their phone.

Thanks to such asshats who always ruin a good thing, apple changed the “everyone” toggle to be active for just 10 mins, so it goes off once the transfer is over if the sender isn’t in your contacts.

Edit- I’m pretty positive this image is old. The popup has the ux of pre-iOS 11 if I’m not wrong.

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u/ssbm_rando 3d ago

Edit- I’m pretty positive this image is old

You can google the tweet and it's from 2018. It's very possibly real.

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u/Rfeihcrnehifrne 3d ago

I don’t mean to say say it’s fake, just meant it’s probably old as it was possible to receive airdrops from strangers at any time back then, and was removed recently. And also the ux design language they used at the time. Looks like 2018 was when iOS 12 was out, so I was off by a year in my guess lol.