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How does this actually limit the dissemination of information? You have 10 minutes, and then can reinitiate? Seems like a reasonable security precaution.


I'm an educator and one thing that's actually been happening is some of our older kids will see school buses out on the road and will just try to airdrop obscene content to kids ON the bus. We had literally talked about hoping there could be some default "off" behavior for airdrop, so this actually will (at least for me) be a welcome change in behavior!


That is a good reason to have airdrop default to off but not a good reason to remove always on, if you want it.


Yes, this has been a problem on public transportation for years.


I am wondering if there is pattern recognition that the Chinese government can access where you can see people constantly toggling AirDrop and identify them for prosecution.




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