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Police warning parents about new iPhone feature
(thehill.com)
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This is absurdly stupid to panic about, and the police "warning" people about it should be embarrassed.
Name Drop is no different than a user taking 10 seconds to manually type a number.
Except if there is the possibility of it happening without their knowledge/consent, the other person could use even the name for further social engineering. It's better to not give out any information automatically. Granted the user has to approve a Name Drop share but the screen does display the user's contact info that would be shared either way, so if the phone is visible to the person trying to obtain the info, they'd still be able to see it even if the target doesn't approve the share.
It is a bit overhyped since it's not like someone shady can go around sniffing everyone's contacts automatically, but it's still worth tuning off for anyone who is privacy or security conscious.
Only if you actively enable airdrop and put your phone within a couple inches. You can't leave airdrop on. It can't happen accidentally.
That is not true, airdrop can stay on indefinitely when set to „contacts“ which is enough for NameDrop.
Can you then share it to everyone using namedrop that's not in your contacts?
Yes exactly that’s the point.
The whole point of NameDrop is to add a new contact. So by definition it literally won’t be usable for airdrop if airdrop is set to contacts only.
Have you tried it?
I have. I’ve accidentally initiated NameDrop between my personal and work phones, just by having them in the same pocket. Both set to Contacts Only.
Imagine a scenario where kids put all their phones in a bad before class or something.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZL5D1k-4aI
If that is the case then it's better but I'd still shut it off and err on the side of caution. The Apple demo video does not mention needing Air Drop enabled, only that both users need to be signed into iCloud: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZL5D1k-4aI
I hate the fact that I can only change my home address in siri by putting the address on my contact card. This means if I want to text myself as a contact to allow someone to quickly add my phone number and email, I also have to share my home address with that person.
So Siri thinks I still live in the place I lived six years ago.
You can select what to share everytime you share your contact from the adress book
Make a dummy contact card without that info. I have two, one for sharing with family and a work one.. Also why do you want your own address in your contact?
Uh, yeah? It's all in the phone book anyway