However, you can only enjoy this improved service if you have OS X Yosemite or higher on your Mac or iOS 7 or higher on your iPhone or iPad. Apple did improve this service significantly that finding devices would now be faster and easier than before. The latter would allow your Mac to transfer huge files at a faster rate.īasically, it’s ad-hoc service that connects two devices so that files of data transfer would be possible. If it can’t find devices through this method, it will use its Wi-fi connection to establish a link with other devices using Wi-fi Direct. First, your Mac will try to find nearby devices using Bluetooth connection that has AirDrop enabled. The new AirDrop protocol now relies on both Bluetooth and Wi-fi connections.
