How to use wireless, wired, and cellular AirDrop to transfer files

AirDrop between Mac and iPhone

If you’re new to iPhone, iPad, or Mac, AirDrop might be unfamiliar to you. It’s a built-in Apple service that lets you wirelessly share files with nearby Apple devices. The sharing process is encrypted, ensuring your private files can only be decrypted on the recipient device.

In this tutorial, we’ll show you how to share photos, videos, PDFs, web links, and other files between iPhone, iPad, and Mac using AirDrop.

7 cool widgets you can create in Shortcuts on iPhone

Shortcuts widget showing eight iOS shortcuts on iPhone Home Screen

With the Shortcuts app on your iPhone and iPad, you can do a lot of nifty things. You can add an album to your Home screen, use dark mode on websites, and enforce picture-in-picture for YouTube on iPad. You can also use the app to create Shortcuts widgets for your Today View screen or Home Screen. This lets you do things faster and easier because you don’t have to open an app first. For some ideas and suggestions, here are seven cool widgets that you can create in Shortcuts for your iPhone and iPad.