Technological advances can make life easier with faster connections and new innovations solving old problems. One advancement many iPhone users take for granted is Airdrop, where users can send media from device to device with ease.
However, with helpful inventions come those who will use it for harmful or inappropriate reasons. Recently, two women spoke to the Mirror about the unsolicited requests they were bombarded with by strangers in public spaces via the feature.
These are stark examples of the everyday harassment women face by simply existing in public, and while tech giant Apple has quietly changed a feature on Airdrop that can halt people sending unsolicited images, it doesn't address the root cause of the problem.
