Airdrop Anomaly

@flysi3000 flysi3000
Tue, 05 May 2026 21:31:15 +0000

This is a weird one… I have a MacBook Pro and iPhone (Mac is on Tahoe; the phone is on the latest public beta of iOS 26). I have two user accounts on this machine; one for work, and the other for personal use; they are both logged into my iCloud account, just so I can use my Apple Music, Calendar, iCloud Drive, etc., etc. in either context. It’s not clean, but it works, more or less.

I was trying to AirDrop some photos to myself from my phone, and while it was saying they had sent successfully, I wasn’t seeing the files appearing in the Downloads folder on my Mac. I was in my work account, and decided on a whim to hop over to the personal account just to see what was up (I use Fast User Switching to go back and forth on a regular basis). Sure enough, there they were in the personal account’s Downloads folder.

Has anyone had this happen? This sure does seem like some kind of security glitch - if this second account didn’t belong to me, that could have been a real problem…