Of course, its inability to share video and music files is less surprising, but needs addressing. Unless Apple has some other iWork sharing mechanism in mind, which given the lack of collaborative editing in iWork is also on the cards. Although we are expecting updates to the these apps pretty shortly and don’t think they’ll be off the sharing list for long. The notable omission is Pages, Numbers and Keynote documents.
It’s going to be particularly useful for people who find cloud services like Dropbox a pain, and sharing by Mail is fiddly and cumbersome. With no USB ports or access to the iOS Finder this offers a neat and elegant solution to file sharing. It’s clever stuff, and an extremely practical way to share files that solves a lot of the problems inherent with using locked-down devices like the iPhone and iPad. They tap okay, and it’s bounced over the WiFi network. Simply tap their icon and they’ll get a message saying that you want to share the file with them. Any users with AirDrop turned on will appear as an icon in this window. Above the usual Message, Mail, Twitter options you’ll now see an AirDrop space. With AirDrop switched on you can head into an app like Photos and tap the Share icon. Contacts Only restricts AirDrop files sharing to people in the Contacts list (useful in busy places) or Everyone, which enables anybody within range to share files with you. Users are given the choice between Off Contacts Only and Everyone. In iOS 7 you Turn on AirDrop using the new Control Centre (slide your finger up from the bottom of the display) and tap AirDrop. From the user side of things AirDrop displays Apple’s usual seamless usability.
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