Woodside School District - AirDrop Information

AirDrop Information

Dear Parents,

It has been brought to my attention that students are air dropping inappropriate pictures to each other. I wanted to share with you that:

AirDrop on personal devices is not something school district can manage. It's a feature that lets iOS and Mac OS devices share files wirelessly. It uses point-to-point communication to transfer data and the bluetooth to broadcast/discover. Although the user needs to turn wi-fi on, they don't need to be on a wi-fi network.

This feature is available on:

iPhone 5, iPod touch 5th generation or later,
iPad 4 or iPad Mini or later
Mac released in 2012 and beyond, excluding the mid-2012 Mac Pro.

We want you to know that you can change the setting to disable this feature. I added a link (see below) for iOS version 12. For other versions it’s pretty similar.

TurnAirdrop on/off: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201304#allow-apps

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