Hold your iPhone next to another iPhone or Apple Watch and you can choose the specific phone numbers or email addresses you want to share. It's designed to be an easier way to share contact details with someone you have just met. NameDropĪrguably, one of our favourite features of iOS 17 is NameDrop. You'll can also initiate a SharePlay session by just holding two iPhones side-by-side. The software update allows you to be able to continue transfers over the internet too, allowing you to walk away once an AirDrop transfer has started. Some big changes have arrived for AirDrop with iOS 17 including the ability to simply hold your iPhone alongside another iPhone to initiate file transfer through AirDrop.
For other AirPods models, Automatic Switching has also been updated to make switching between Apple devices more seamless, and there is now a way to mute yourself with a tap on AirPods Pro (1st and 2nd generation), AirPods (3rd generation) and AirPods Max.
