I appeared on my local Fox affiliate today after a number of law enforcement agencies expressed concern about Apple’s new NameDrop feature.
NameDrop allows two iPhones in close proximity to share contact information. Here’s what most of the Facebook posts I’m seeing today leave out about how the feature works:
1. Both phones need to be unlocked. Your phone won’t transmit your contact info when locked.
2. In order to transmit contact information you need to push a button on your phone to send contact information to the other phone.
3. This only works when the phones are in close proximity, pretty much touching each other.
For users concerned about their phone leaking information I suggest spending some time in the “Privacy and Security” settings to see which apps have access to your private information, location data and more.
