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AirDrop is great for the iPhone, iPad and Mac, but it can be even better. Here’s how.

It’s hard to believe that it’s been nine years since Apple introduced AirDrop as a part of Mac OS X Lion and iOS 7. I consider AirDrop to be one of Apple’s best moves of the past decade. It’s a feature I have used hundreds of times and have come to rely on to quickly exchange files and other information with my own devices and with the devices used by my friends and family.

But just because AirDrop is useful doesn’t mean it couldn’t be better.

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