From the earliest iPhone and iPod Touch models, Apple opted to disable OBEX — aka Bluetooth file transfers on its devices for security reasons. Now, thanks to iBlueNova, a Cydia app well worth the ...

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If you have files on your Android phone that you want to download onto your Windows 11 PC (or upload from your computer to your phone) but you don’t have a USB cable handy, sharing over Bluetooth is a ...

If the Bluetooth File Transfer wizard displays a message stating This Bluetooth device or computer cannot process files of this type when you try to transfer any file type from your mobile ...

If you haven't taken advantage of AirDrop, you're missing out on one of Apple's best features. You can use AirDrop to send photos, videos, and documents between different Macs, and between a Mac and ...

You can use Nearby Share to send and receive files as long as both devices are running Android 6.0 or higher, and Bluetooth and location services are turned on. From the Nearby Share settings page, ...

Celeste is a new jailbreak app that allows you to send and receive files using your iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch with any Bluetooth-transfer capable device. You can transfer songs, photos, videos, ...

Bluetooth is great for zapping homemade MP3 ringtones onto your cellphone and syncing contact information, but its not really up to the task of beaming large files from user to user because the data ...