{"id":549828,"date":"2025-11-05T03:19:17","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T03:19:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/549828\/"},"modified":"2025-11-05T03:19:17","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T03:19:17","slug":"ios-26-2-could-add-30-day-airdrop-pairing-option-between-devices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/549828\/","title":{"rendered":"iOS 26.2 could add 30-day AirDrop pairing option between devices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t<img width=\"1600\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/airdrop-ios-26-icon.jpg\" class=\"skip-lazy wp-post-image\" alt=\"\"  decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Apple is working on a new feature that will allow users to keep AirDrop pairing active between devices for up to 30 days. Here are the details.<\/p>\n<p>New setting may offer more privacy flexibility<\/p>\n<p>With iOS 26.2 developer beta 1 <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2025\/11\/03\/apple-releases-ios-26-1-for-iphone-with-these-changes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">released earlier today<\/a>, Apple appears to be working on giving users more control over who can send them files via AirDrop, regardless of whether the sender is a known contact or not.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, AirDrop offers three visibility settings:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Receiving Off<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Contacts Only<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Everyone for 10 minutes<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Based on code reviewed by 9to5Mac, Apple seems to be working on a new option that will let users sync their devices for AirDrop through a PIN, in which case they \u201cwill be able to find each other in AirDrop when nearby for the next 30 days.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This suggests that users will be able to pair two devices by entering a short PIN, allowing them to remain visible to one another in AirDrop for the next month, without needing to switch back to \u201cEveryone for 10 minutes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The feature, which is not immediately available for use on iOS 26.2 beta 1 and may still change, will let users change this permission in Settings.<\/p>\n<p>Throughout the years, Apple has worked to improve AirDrop privacy and mitigate problems caused by unwanted AirDrop transmission requests. 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