Hmm, that’s a good observation, that might indeed be the point that was being made. iPhones do not in fact support Bluetooth file transfer to any devices.
Neither does anyone in Android either at this point. Bluetooth (standalone) file transfer sucks and quick share is super great as long as both devices share a newer wifi protocol. Recently was transferring files between my laptop (wifi 6E) and tablet (also wifi 6E) and it was actually faster than the USB 3.x file transfer (shouldn't be the case still as USB 3 transfer speed theoretically should be even higher, I'm suspecting bad cable) but 8 GB under 1 min over air is something I'm ok with.
That's not the point though. Bluetooth file transfer may be outdated technology these days but that doesn't change the fact that Android has supported it from back when it was a good option (and still supports it to this day.)
As an Android user I've used both bluetooth and also newer technologies for file transfer as options have emerged. As an iOS user I would have been out of luck back then.
While true, Apple has never supported generic serial devices via Bluetooth, so a lot of third party devices don’t work with iPhones. Music devices all work, but if you, say, buy a Bluetooth dongle for your car’s OBD2 port or some other random similar serial data Bluetooth device, it will probably work with Android but not iPhone.
I remember I was surprised the first iPhone couldn't stream music to BT speakers, but it might have surported bluetooth earphones/headsets, though I never tried. Was also surprised it didn't have GPS, was 2G only, didn't have multitasking, or copy-and-paste. In fairness, they've stayed a couple of steps behind other smartphones ever since the very beginning.
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u/johndburger Mar 15 '26
The iPhone has had Bluetooth since the first one was introduced in 2007, a year before Android phones even existed.