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Share files quickly with AirDrop - macOS Tutorial
From the course: macOS Big Sur Essential Training
Share files quickly with AirDrop
- You can quickly send files wirelessly from one Mac to another or even from an iPhone or iPad using Airdrop. You don't need passwords and you don't need to deal with network configuration. You just need your devices to be fairly close together and you need Bluetooth enabled on those devices. I have a Finder Window open with some files I want to send to another computer. And I do want to have another Finder Windows, so I go to the File Menu and choose New Finder Window and I want to roughly move these so I can see them side by side. And this new Finder Window, I want to select Airdrop on the side bar on the left. This shows me other Airdrop capable devices in range, I can see my iPhone is here, because in the same room and Airdrop is already set up. But you also need to have your visibility set correctly in Airdrop. Here in this window my visibility is set to contacts only, so only people I have in my address book will see…
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