A Southwest Airlines pilot threatened to turn the plane around, taxi back to the gate, and involve security over an unknown cyber flasher who was AirDropping nudes aboard a flight to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico.
In a viral video posted on TikTok, the pilot is heard saying: “So here’s the deal. If this continues while we’re on the ground, I’m going to have to pull back to the gate, everybody is going to have to get off, we’re going to have to get security involved and vacation is going to be ruined. So you folks, whatever that AirDrop thing is, quit sending naked pictures and let’s get you to Cabo!”
@teighmars @robloxsouthwestair takes airdropping nudes very seriously. #AEJeansSoundOn #WorldPrincessWeek
MacDailyNews Take: When someone shares something with you using AirDrop, you see an alert with a preview. Hence the cyber flashing aspect. You can then tap Accept or Decline, but you’ve already seen the image. However, there’s a way to prevent receiving nudes from random people on a plane or elsewhere that we’ll explain below.
First, if you tap Accept, the AirDrop will come through within the same app it was sent from. For example, photos appear in the Photos app and websites open in Safari. If you AirDrop something to yourself, like a photo from your iPhone to your Mac, you won’t see an option to Accept or Decline — it’ll automatically get sent to your device. Just make sure that both devices are signed in with the same Apple ID.
Now, to choose who can see your device and send you content via AirDrop:
- Go to Settings > General.
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Tap AirDrop, then choose an option:
• Receiving Off: You won’t receive AirDrop requests.
• Contacts Only: Only your contacts can see your device.
• Everyone: All nearby Apple devices using AirDrop can see your device.
You can also set your AirDrop options in Control Center:
- On iPhone X or later, swipe down from the upper-right corner of the screen to open Control Center. Or follow the same motion to open Control Center on your iPad with iOS 12 or later or iPadOS. On your iPhone 8 or earlier or iPod touch, swipe up from the bottom of the screen.
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Press firmly or touch and hold the network settings card in the upper-left corner.
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Touch and hold the AirDrop button, then choose one of these options:
• Receiving Off: You won’t receive AirDrop requests.
• Contacts Only: Only your contacts can see your device.
• Everyone: All nearby Apple devices using AirDrop can see your device.
If you see Receiving Off and can’t tap to change it:
1. Go to Settings > Screen Time.
2. Tap Content & Privacy Restrictions.
3. Tap Allowed Apps and make sure that AirDrop is turned on.
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ahhhh BonerGate to start the Labor Day Holiday……..
Kinda like the pilot had to yell..”Don’t make me come back there! I will turn this plane around right now!”
Should have been heading to Alaska where they were Nailin Palin !
Don’t worry about Palin. When Trump wins the presidency for a third time, there will be plenty of positions Palin can have, like head of the FBI, Head of the CIA, Head of the DoJ, head of the Dept of Energy, Head of the IRS. The opportunities are boundless.
Now, with that thought in your head, Sweet Dreams!
You contain an astounding amount of stupid and delusion.
I have to be in order for you to understand. Otherwise, it’s sending a picturebook but I haven’t the time to placate immature little people.
Third time? Har-de-har-har!!
True. I don’t understand the voting system in Alaska but Sarah had no business losing that race. With the depth of criminality, abuse of power, lying, cheating and Constitution defying acts of Democrats since 2016, any voter paying attention should be ashamed of voting for anyone from that party.
You’ve gotta hand it to them though. They have quite literally weaponized absurdity and now they slither around like snickering snakes seeing how far they can push it. Just what absurdity can with launch today! I know, let’s call half the country fascists! We have a problem with documents Trump has. We need to know what incriminates us. I know! Let’s get a court order and raid his place! That’ll be fun!
And they just get away with it. All the while (and this is the most absurd part) claiming that anyone voting against them is helping to collapse our democracy. They’re like thieves claiming that anyone who complains about the theft is a thief!
There has never been anything like it in the history of this country.
Have you ever looked into the eyes of Biden when he’s coherent enough to address people? It’s like he’s looking into the eyes of fools and he knows they’re all fools and he can say anything and it will be ok. Pelosi lies like no one I’ve ever seen before. And gets richer all the while she’s doing it.
It’s no wonder they fear Trump enough to just say screw it and circumvent the law and while on their quest to destroy him.
The sane among the left should not want these people running the government. Every move they make seems designed to diminish the standing of the United States both domestically and internationally. It’s incomprehensible.
And totally unforgivable.
😮
You should have stopped after admitting you don’t know how elections work.
Exactly!!
“Sarah had no business losing that race”
Except, you know, she did lose. Maybe because voters didn’t like her, and didn’t like the fact she got bored the last time she was elected and quit as governor after a couple of years.
Also, ranked-choice voting isn’t that hard a concept to understand. But since you accuse the Democrats of everything Trump and the GOP is actually doing, maybe you have special challenges.
“But since you accuse the Democrats of everything Trump and the GOP is actually doing”
Your special challenge Saul Alinsky, is continue lying and misrepresenting EVERYTHING Republican now until election day red bloodbath. We are on to you until the RED WAVE at the polls…
This election was only to decide who will serve in Congress for the next two months.
Sarah will run against Peltola this November in the midterms.
And Sarah will win. (60% of voters cast ballots for Republicans in this special election. Alaska’s goofy ranked choice voting “system” produced this temporary anomaly.)
The wins keep stacking up. In your mind…
Cynic, you have delusions of adequacy
At least I can count past my toes.