Another iPhone got close to mine and to both users surprise they connected and started sharing data. How do I turn this “feature” off I view it as an extreme security risk for a device I never authorized to connect purely because it’s close.
If you go in your settings-general-airdrop there is an option turned on called bringing devices together turning this off will stop this from happening
If you go in your settings-general-airdrop there is an option turned on called bringing devices together turning this off will stop this from happening
Hi studeggle,
To disable this you can go to Settings > General > AirDrop, and toggle the Bring Devices Together option off.
We hope this helps.
Take care.
Hades76 wrote:
Same here and more strange i was logging into google and my android and I got a 2 step notification to allow it on the freshly reset phone that I purposely never used any google accounts on.
This Google behavior is unrelated to the Apple AirDrop proximity features including NameDrop discussed above.
If Google happens to have the telephone number or acquired another correlation—collecting everything is central to the business of Google—you will want to discuss that with them. (It’s feasible to correlate phones that have simply been moving together, too.)
Same here and more strange i was logging into google and my android and I got a 2 step notification to allow it on the freshly reset phone that I purposely never used any google accounts on.
Turn off automatic connections to Apple devices
