Airdrop Anomaly

@mpainesyd Michael Paine
Tue, 05 May 2026 22:18:59 +0000

I agree that you may have found a potential security glitch with the way Airdrop works. From the iPhone it only “sees” the Mac computer and displays its name. It does not identify logged-in accounts on that computer so the user can select where to send the file.
I just tried changing the computer name for one of my logged-in accounts (Settings/General/About…) and, as expected, it also changed the name for the other account. The same for Local Host Name under File Sharing. So no way to separate the view in Airdrop.