If you are within the Apple ecosystem, you have surely used AirDrop to transfer files between iPhone and Mac or between other devices. Although this technology is limited to the company’s own ecosystem and is not open to other devices. That is why you have to look for alternatives to be able, for example, to transfer photography from iPhone to PC in a simple way. One of the alternative tools is Snapdrop, about which we tell you everything you need to know below.
Snapdrop, a system to communicate between two devices
Snapdrop is a web page that tries to connect all the devices that you have in the same internet network with a very similar operation to AirDrop. The objective is to be able to transfer any type of file, both a photograph and a video, to a text document. The advantage of being a simple web page is that you can access it from any type of device regardless of whether it is a mobile, a tablet or a computer regardless of the brand or operating system.
That is why to make the transfer between an iPhone and a PC you simply have to perform the following steps:
- Open the Snapdrop website in Safari and do the same on your PC in the browser you want.
- On the computer that you want to act as the sender, in this case the iPhone, click on the PC that it has detected.
- It will give you to choose between several options to be able to choose the photograph you want to send or the file.
- Choose the photo either in the photo library or in the Files app.
- At the time of adding it, the image data will appear on the PC and the options to save or ignore it.
Simple but effective design
The highlight of this tool in addition to its ultimate goal of exchanging files between two devices that do not share an ecosystem is undoubtedly its design. It is very simple and fast and the truth is that it closely resembles the aesthetics of AirDrop with lines that make semicircles. But the most important thing is the speed with which this information is sent, not having to resort to the clouds or send it through messaging services such as Telegram through saved messages. In this way, the line that separates several ecosystems that are very different when communicating with each other is eliminated.
In addition to sending files, an integrated messaging system is also included. By pressing and holding on a device it is possible to send a message in a very comfortable way to notify, for example, another person in your environment what you are going to send through here. The only drawback that it obviously has is that the devices must be connected to the same WiFi network. So it cannot be used in the middle of the street as if it would allow AirDrop or if one of the devices is using mobile data.