As is the case with Handoff, this cool feature is available only to people with recently-made devices. To use AirDrop between a Mac and an iOS device, your Mac and iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch must meet the stringent Handoff Requirements. Now, AirDrop takes on the whole kit-n-caboodle, promising instant sharing between Macs, iPhones, and iPads with just a few taps or clicks…if you have the right hardware. Prior to Yosemite, AirDrop simplified transferring files between Macs on the same network, and later between iOS devices in close range of each other, too. ① If you have a Yosemite or El Capitan Mac and an iOS 8.1 or later device that both meet Apple’s hardware requirements, you can use AirDrop sharing between them. Now-a-days we have options like the Messages app, email, and Dropbox, as well as Apple’s AirDrop ①. A November release would be unusual – four of the past five years, Apple's refresh reached users in September – but in a year when business and personal plans have been upended by the coronavirus pandemic, not a surprise.Once upon a time, moving electronic files from one computer to another required cables, know-how, and fair dose of determination. 7, 2019).Īpple has not specified a release date for Big Sur, saying only that the upgrade will hit the Mac App Store sometime in the fall. 2, more than a month later than the latest of the past five upgrades (Catalina on Oct. If Apple delivers Big Sur 88 days after its first public beta, the final would drop Nov. The span between the first public beta and the final release ranged from 75 days (Sierra) to 105 days (El Capitan), with the average running slightly more than 88 days. (El Capitan and 2016's Sierra had their initial public beta releases on July 9 and July 7, respectively, while Catalina, 2018's Mojave and 2017's High Sierra appeared June 29, June 26 and June 24.) During the past five macOS/OS X updates' summer previews – from 2015's El Capitan to last year's Catalina – Apple shipped the first preview between June 24 and July 9. The first Big Sur public beta release rolled out considerably later than those of previous upgrades. To dispose of the preview and return to the previous OS, customers must unenroll a Mac from the beta program and then restore the production-grade operating system using the Time Machine-created backup. Users should also back up their Macs before upgrading to the preliminary Big Sur. 'We strongly recommend installing beta software on a secondary system or device, or on a secondary partition on your Mac,' the firm said at the start of the beta program's terms. Apple warned customers against installing the Big Sur beta on production Macs.

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