AirDrop
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airdrop-226-3363252
title:
AirDrop
text:
AirDrop is a proprietary wireless ad hoc service in Apple Inc.'s iOS, macOS, iPadOS and visionOS operating systems, introduced in Mac OS X Lion and iOS 7, which can transfer files among supported Macintosh computers and iOS devices by means of close-range wireless communication. This communication takes place over Apple Wireless Direct Link 'Action Frames' and 'Data Frames' using generated link-local IPv6 addresses instead of the Wi-Fi chip's fixed MAC address. Prior to OS X Yosemite, and under
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wiki
category slug:
encyclopedia
description:
Proprietary file sharing between Apple devices
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AirDrop
date created:
2011-02-28T12:46:22Z
date modified:
2024-09-15T02:35:46Z
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13
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