Just to be clear, it's still possible to use AirDrop in China — the change was that you can't set your device to receive from 'Everyone' indefinitely. It's now limited to 10 minutes. I don't support this change, but we shouldn't conflate it with blocking AirDrop entirely, which would be much worse.
Still fine to be angry at Apple about it, though this feels like the way it should always have worked. Remember all the “Apple is terrible because people airdrop unwanted nudes” articles decrying the previous setting?
- was this change in response to the protests?
- was this change only for Chinese users?
The primary usecase of allowing everyone to send at all times seems like mass organization
Apple needs time to design, implement and test changes even small ones.
But the AirDrop change makes it even worse. There is nowhere you can go to make this setting stick. There is no reason to remove this option.
And I think the exact same thing about the Wi-Fi setting. On the rare occasions that I want to turn Wi-Fi off I usually add a reminder to turn it back on when I get home.