How to use AirDrop on your iPhone, iPad or iPod bear upon

Use AirDrop to share and receive photos, documents and more than with other Apple devices that are nearby.

Before you begin

  • Make sure that the person yous're sending to is nearby and inside Bluetooth and Wi-Fi range.
  • Cheque that you and the person you're sending to accept Wi-Fi and Bluetooth turned on. If either of you accept Personal Hotspot on, turn it off.
  • Check if the person you're sending to has their AirDrop ready to receive from Contacts Just. If they do, and y'all're in their Contacts, they'll demand to have your Apple ID's email accost or mobile number in your contact menu for AirDrop to work.
  • If yous're not in their Contacts, have them set their AirDrop receiving setting to Everyone in society to receive the file.

Y'all can put your AirDrop receiving setting to Contacts Only or Receiving Off at whatever fourth dimension to control who can see your device and send yous content in AirDrop.

Follow the steps for your device.

On your iPhone 11 or later

  1. Open up an app, then tap Share or the Share button. If you share a photograph from the Photos app, y'all tin can swipe left or right and select multiple photos.
  2. Tap the AirDrop push.
  3. If the person that y'all want to share with as well has an iPhone 11 or after model, indicate your iPhone in the direction of the other iPhone.
  4. Tap the profile moving picture of its user at the peak of the screen. Or you can use AirDrop between your own Apple devices. If yous see a cerise numbered badge on the AirDrop push button, there are multiple devices nearby that you tin share with. Tap the AirDrop push, so tap the user that you want to share with. Find out what to practice if you tin can't see the AirDrop user or your other device.

If the person you're sharing content with is in your Contacts, you'll see an image with their name. If they're non in your Contacts, you'll but see their name without an paradigm.

On your iPhone XS or earlier, iPad or iPod touch

  1. Open an app, then tap Share or the Share 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. Tap the AirDrop user that you want to share with. Or you can utilise AirDrop between your ain Apple devices. If you encounter a reddish numbered badge on the AirDrop push, at that place are multiple devices nearby that you tin share with. Tap the AirDrop button, so tap the user that you want to share with. Find out what to do if y'all can't see the AirDrop user or your other device.

If the person you're sharing content with is in your Contacts, you lot'll encounter an prototype with their name. If they're non in your Contacts, you'll merely run into their name without an image.

How to take AirDrop

When someone shares something with y'all using AirDrop, you lot see an alert with a preview. You can tap Accept or Decline.

If you tap Accept, the AirDrop will come up through within the same app it was sent from. For example, photos appear in the Photos app and websites open in Safari. App links open in the App Store and so you tin can download or purchase the app.

If you AirDrop something to yourself, like a photo from your iPhone to your Mac, you won't run across an choice to Accept or Reject — it'll automatically get sent to your device. But make sure that both devices are signed in with the same Apple ID.

How to adjust AirDrop settings

To choose who can see your device and send you content in AirDrop:

  1. Get to Settings, tap General.
  2. Tap AirDrop, then choose an pick.

You tin also set your AirDrop options in Command Middle. Here's how:

  1. On iPhone 10 or after, swipe down from the tiptop right-hand corner of the screen to open Command Middle. Or follow the same motion to open Command Heart on your iPad with iOS 12 or later or iPadOS. On your iPhone 8 or before or iPod touch, swipe up from the bottom of the screen.
  2. Printing firmly or touch and hold the network settings card in the upper-left corner.
  3. Touch on and hold the AirDrop push, and so cull one of these options:
    • Receiving Off: You won't receive AirDrop requests.
    • Contacts Only: Only your contacts tin run across your device.
    • Everyone: All nearby Apple devices using AirDrop can see your device.

If you see Receiving Off and can't tap to change it:

  1. Go to Settings > Screen Time.
  2. Tap Content & Privacy Restrictions.
  3. Tap Allowed Apps and brand certain that AirDrop is turned on.

The Contacts Simply option is available on devices that back up iOS 10 and later, iPadOS, or macOS Sierra 10.12 and later. If AirDrop is set to Contacts Only on your device with an before software version, yous'll need to suit AirDrop settings to the Anybody selection in Settings or from Control Eye. You can select the Everyone option while using AirDrop and disable it when non in use.

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