1.

AirDrop makes it easy to transfer stuff on your iPhone

to your Mac.

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It's not every day I need to transfer something from my iPhone to

MacBook Pro, as most of my "stuff" is on the cloud. But it has come
in handy for those few times when I needed it, and it wouldn't be as
easy if I had a Windows computer.

Thanks to AirDrop, I've transferred photos, videos, and notes to a

friend's Mac without having to log into my cloud services, and it's
faster and easier to use, too.

The only thing you need to ensure AirDrop works is to make sure
both your iPhone and Mac have Bluetooth turned on and are on the
same WiFi network. Your Mac can even be connected to the internet
with ethernet and WiFi off and it'll still work.

2. Turning my iPhone into a WiFi hotspot is incredibly

simple.

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Almost any smartphone can become a WiFi hotspot. You just have
to go into your phone's settings and turn on the hotspot feature.

With a Mac, however, all you need to do is click the WiFi symbol on
the top right of your screen to automatically find your iPhone as a
WiFi hotspot without having to do anything on your iPhone.

Of course, you have to set up the Personal Hotspot feature in your

iPhone first, but it's a one-time setup.

3. Getting phone calls to your computer when your

iPhone is nowhere near you is an excellent feature.
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When your iPhone and Mac are on the same network, you can get
phone calls on your Mac.

Again, it's not a huge deal, but it's nice to stay at your computer
when someone is calling (or you want to make a call) and your
phone is not within reach, or in another room.

This has proven useful when my iPhone was on silent mode, so I

couldn't hear it ring when someone called me. Instead of missing
the call, I got a notification on my Mac and took the call.

You can also use iPads to make or receive phone calls, too.
4. It's great to send and receive text messages on your
Mac.

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As long as the contacts you're talking to over text also have iPhones,
you can chat with them using Messages on your Mac just like you
would on your iPhone.

One day when I got to work, I realized I forgot my iPhone at home,

but I could still send and receive texts with contacts who used
iPhones.

As with phone calls, I could have missed a bunch of text messages

when my iPhone was in another room on silent mode. But no text
slips by when I see them on my Mac or iPad.

5. Using Apple Pay on a Mac makes shopping so much

easier.
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Rejoice, for using Apple Pay on a Mac could mean you'd never have
to type in your financial information again when checking out from
online shopping.

This feature was only recently announced at WWDC 2016, and it'll
come with the iOS 10 and macOS Sierra updates later this Fall. But
when they do hit, it has the potential to make online shopping more
secure and less of a hassle.