Last month, Kayla finalized her course schedule for the just-started semester at her university. I asked her to text it to me. Instead, she used something called Airdrop to send it to my photos folder. Sure enough, there it was when I checked my photos. EVEN THOUGH I DON’T HAVE THE AIRDROP APP ON MY PHONE.
Today, I decided to have a look at it, so I opened my photos folder. The photo was nowhere to be found! And I checked all the way back to October!
wtf?
Is there any way to recover this image? Also, why the hell didn’t it STAY in my photos folder?
Why the hell did you ask for it if you weren’t interested enough to look at it all this time?
Don’t you think University students need to concentrate on their studies, instead of spending their time gathering information & sending it to nosy parents? (Who then don’t even bother looking at it.) So stop complaining.
AirDrop is not an app. It’s a built in feature of iOS for transferring files directly between devices. As to why it is no longer on your device, there isn’t a concrete way to answer that other than speculation. It could have been accidentally deleted or you’re looking at a different album than the default. From the Photos app, choose the Albums button at the bottom and look in the Recently Deleted or other albums. Unfortunately, if it has been completely deleted there are no other options for recovering it from the phone.
Tim@T-Bonham.net, you’ve been around long enough to know that this is a completely inappropriate reply for General Questions. This is an official warning for being a jerk. If you can’t answer a question factually, there’s no reason to post at all. Don’t do this again.
Perhaps I failed to make myself clear; if so, my apologies. I ensured at the time that the image was in my photo album. Usually images that are in my photo album stay there until I delete them. I believed that the schedule would be there for me to reference later when classes had actually started. It certainly never occurred to me to commit it to memory. I tend to find that she is more responsive to texts when she is not in class (to say nothing of not wanting to interrupt her with a phone call).
AirDrop is just an Apple-Apple short-range transfer method. Once the image is transferred, it stays on the device until deleted. Which means is either still in Photos, and you just can’t find it, or you deleted it.
Thanks very much, Cleophus; I’ve found it in my Albums (Recent). I hardly ever look at photos, and thought that everything would be available merely by scrolling through every image.
When I connect my iPhone 6S to my MacBook Pro as an external device, I can’t transfer files like I used to on my old MacBook. To get around this, I email photos to myself. I’ve used Airdrop exactly once. A video I shot on my phone, of me driving down the block in the snow, was too large to email. I used Airdrop, which sent me a link that I could click on the computer to download the file. I noticed a warning that the link would expire on a certain date.
AirDrop works with iPhone 6 or better, iPad 3rd gen or better, and Macs with Bluetooth LE capability (I think 2013 or later). This is from memory, so don’t quote me.
Last summer, I was vacationing with a group at a place with no internet and sketchy cell coverage. Everyone still used their phones as cameras, though. At the end, all 6 of the others were airdropping their best pictures back and forth to each other on their iPhones. I sat there with my android like a social outcast. Luckily, my wife was one of the iPhone users.
Luckily, my wife was one of the iPhone users.