Apple made a change to the AirDrop feature in China with the iOS 16.1.1. update, and it will add it to iPhone units worldwide over the coming year.
. In the latest iOS 16.1.1 update, Chinese iPhone users received something special just for them and it is related to AirDrop.
The AirDrop feature was being used to get around China's online censorship policy and allowed iPhone users in the country to share images against the Chinese government. Just a few weeks ago, AirDrop was used to distribute posters criticizing President Xi Jinping. So in China, when a user's AirDrop app is set to receive files from"Everyone," it will automatically change to"Contacts Only" after a ten-minute period.
Apple has been attacked before for giving in too much to China such as when it removed VPN apps from the App Store in the country. These apps protect user privacy when online so that even the Chinese government could not track iPhone users using one. But since Apple plans on making the 10-minute"Everyone" window a global AirDrop feature during the coming year, the company can write this off as a test rather than admitting to kowtowing to a request from the Chinese government.
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