To have these features be universal across all device types would be so amazing. iPhone, android, Mac, and Windows should all have the ability to transfer files and stream media. It should be simple
You know bluetooth has been able to do just that since like 2005
Maybe, but it’s slow and much harder to use than how AirDrop works
And for android and also windows nearby share works very well, basically the same as airdrop
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At least there are good things such as BLE that come with bluetooth which saves a lot of hassle with embedded devices so Bluetooth is not all that bad
Digital Living Network Alliance. It could’ve been great, if not for companies like Apple cannibalizing it.
My girlfriend has an iPhone, and the storage is full. We’ve been trying to get all her pictures transferred off to delete some of the older ones off the phone and holy fuck is it a pain in the ass. Move them to her MacBook? Pain in the ass because of how they setup their Photos app. Move to a flashdrive via a dongle? Pain in the ass because it downloads from who knows where and fills the storage back up before I can start the transfer. Connect to my Windows PC? Lmao yeah right.
So far I’ve just gotten Immich to backup all her pics to my server but due to the amount on her phone it takes forever then bugs out and stops transferring.
iOS can eat my entire ass
Syncthing-Fork on a PC/Mac, Möbius Sync on the iOS device (it’s $5). Worth the five bucks. I keep multiple phones, hundreds of gigs syncing with Syncthing. It just works.
Edit: Syncthing-Fork is for Android, SyncTrayzor for Windows, Möbius for iOS, Syncthing for Mac.
I tried to share a contact yesterday from Android to Apple. Quick share doesn’t work. QR code doesn’t work.
I had to get their phone number and send it over SMS in text. Ridiculous.
You can share a contact from your contacts app to any service - it’ll attach a vcard.
Works both ways. Yea, it’s harder than it should be, when Palm had this capability via infrared in 1996.
I wasn’t sure Apple would take a vCard, so after failing QR, I sent both the vCard and the info in plain text over SMS.
Harder than it should be. Android could have just done a QR code.
Knowing Apple, they’d likely make a bare bones functionality somewhat workable while making it more of a pita than it’s worth.
Local Send and Quick Share is the answer
Yay for local send! Anyone knows if there’s a way to use it while I have VPN on on one the devices ? I usually have to turn it off while sending things…
use split tunneling to exempt the app from using VPN connection.
My Hero!
It’s a part of Android and comes pre-installed if you are on a phone running the latest Android Version
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quick_Share
I am not sure if it is a part of AOSP so custom Roms, or phone brands without Google apps support like Huawei, may not include it
the ending of the very first paragraph that you’ve linked answers that.
The new Matter casting protocol should in theory reduce some of this proprietary-ness of Google’s Chromecast and Apple’s AirPlay
Apple should sell chips for that, :)
