Imagine taking it upon yourself to buy plane tickets for your next romantic weekend. So you’ve received both your boarding passes. But when you confront the stewardess, you realize you didn’t send your other half’s. Below are a few awkward moments that you’re still sharing in any way you choose. Email transfer, sending PDF to instant messenger… If you both have iPhones, this will change soon.
The arrival of the iPhone 15 last September was accompanied by iOS 17, the new version of the mobile operating system of the bitten apple brand. Among the new features we find an addition to the function Air Drop. Appointed Leave Nameallows you to share all or part of the contact card with another iPhone user by keeping the two phones close together. This gave rise to the term “Name Dropping” to denote the movements involved. iOS 17.2 update expands its possibilities.
iOS 17.2 introduces the ability to share tickets or subscription cards with a simple gesture
In Apple’s description, we can read that iOS 17.2 improves AirDrop with “expanded contact sharing options and the ability to share boarding passes, movie tickets, and other passes by bringing two iPhones together.” Concretely, you can: Share tickets or cards stored in the Apple Wallet app by holding your Apple smartphone close to someone else. Note that this possibility already exists via AirDrop. The change comes from the more natural procedure inspired by NameDrop.
Note that NameDropping is safe, contrary to what American police forces recently claimed. Data exchange is far from automatic, because once mobile phones get close enough, users have to select and confirm a few things for the sharing to be truly effective. It’s still in beta phase, iOS 17.2 will be available to compatible devices before mid-December 2023.
Source : MacRumors
