How to Add AirDrop to Dock on Mac for Rapid Access

How to Add AirDrop to Dock on Mac for Rapid Access

If you frequently use AirDrop on the Mac to send and receive files or and devices, you may appreciate having ultra-fast access to AirDrop by having it readily available from the Dock of Mac OS. By using a little file system trick, you can gain direct access to AirDrop through the Mac Dock, rather than having to use the Finder to navigate to the file sharing feature. This guide will walk through how to set that up on Mac. Obviously the Mac must support AirDrop to be able to use the feature, let alone have access to it. Nearly every vaguely modern Mac supports AirDrop, and all modern MacOS operating systems support the feature, so as long as youre reasonably up to date then compatibility shouldnt be an issue. Adding an AirDrop icon into the Dock of the Mac is achieved by locating a shortcut to the AirDrop feature and then placing it into the Dock. This is hidden by default within a system folder, but its easy to retrieve with the following steps: Now if you click on the AirDrop icon in the Mac Dock, an AirDrop window will open immediately in Finder to activate the feature, making AirDrop on the Mac ready to send and receive. Remember, AirDrop can work to send data to and from Macs, as well as to and from iOS devices. If youre unfamiliar with data transfer using AirDrop, the following walkthrough guides should be helpful to you: Its also helpful to recall that depends on the target recipients operating system, on the Mac thats always the Downloads folder of the active user account, but in iOS it can be various places depending on the file type being sent. Ultimately the AirDrop window accessed from the Dock this way will be the same AirDrop window youd access in Finder when clicking on AirDrop in the sidebar menu, or from the Go menu, or , its just a matter of ease and speed that make adding the AirDrop icon to the Dock a helpful trick. You may notice this is similar to how you go about , and so while youre performing either trick you could add another step to include that as well if it interests you. AirDrop offers and is certainly worth understanding how to use, so d