Can iPhones receive files via Bluetooth?

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• floo@retrolemmy.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  AirDrop operates via Bluetooth

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  • partial_accumen@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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.

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    • floo@retrolemmy.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Oooooh, ok.

      You can’t. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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  • QuarterSwede@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    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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    • snausagesinablanket@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Someday Bluetooth will have more bandwidth and be renamed Blueteeth.

      I’ll let myself out now.

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• sznowicki@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Not via Bluetooth but soon Apple is forced to switch airdrop to an open protocol. So you’ll get it over WiFi ditto.com/…/cross-platform-p2p-wi-fi-how-the-eu-k…

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• Lasherz12@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  At work we do a lot of transfers between android and iPhone and vice versa. We use Verizon Content Transfer installed on both phones because it plays nice between brands and offers bluetooth/wifi transfer reliably. Verizon affiliation not required.

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  • QuarterSwede@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Use LocalSend. It’s open source and works great on all devices and platforms.

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• nokturne213@sopuli.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I know that can send via Bluetooth, before I dropped my windows laptop for a MacBook I used to transfer files via Bluetooth to my laptop.

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