The AirDrop Conundrum: Passing Custom Models From and To Your App | Swiftjective-C

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2024-09-03 23:00:06

I do. And this post is about how I found out, how AirDrop even works because nobody seems to know that, and where Apple might go from here.

I was chatting with my friend Mikaela about this topic around a year ago. She mentioned that the code sample wasn’t working as intended found in the chapter over AirDrop from my book series. I remember testing this quite a bit, and knew that (at the time) it was functioning.

And so, I told her I’d check into it. Then my kids started fighting, they also needed dinner, I finally cleaned up the kitchen afterwards and just like that — about a calendar year went by.

That brings me to last weekend. I noticed that in Elite Hoops, a team AirDrop transaction was opening Files.app instead of, well, Elite Hoops. You can try this yourself — AirDrop anything from an app not made by Apple and see where it ends up. If it’s not something defined in Apple’s public UTTypes, like a spreadsheet or word document, it’ll likely open Files.

In my case, this was (and isn’t) ideal because new iPhones are coming and coaches will want to move their data over. AirDrop is one way they could.