This is not accurate. It uses BT to establish the connection and then it transfers the data over peer to peer WiFi, which is why it’s so much faster than Bluetooth File Transfer.
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floo@retrolemmy.com 7 months ago
AirDrop operates via Bluetooth
QuarterSwede@lemmy.world 7 months ago
snausagesinablanket@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Someday Bluetooth will have more bandwidth and be renamed Blueteeth.
I’ll let myself out now.
partial_accumen@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I believe OP isn’t asking a question about which radios files can be transferred over, but rather is it possible to use Bluetooth File Exchange, which is part of the Bluetooth protocol stack, for receiving files on iPhones.
floo@retrolemmy.com 7 months ago
Oooooh, ok.
You can’t. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 7 months ago
You think it was stupid? It was obviously an intentional choice to influence people to pester their friends to get Apple devices so it will ‘just work’