The updates in iOS 9.2aren’t muchto write plate about ( even if you are in the habit of writing to your folks about new iOS discharge ) , but there is one useful new feature now usable on mobile : Mail Drop . It lets you commit handsome files from your iPhone via iCloud , and here ’s how to make use of it .
Mail Drop has been around on the desktopsince OS X Yosemite launchedso you may already be familiar with how it work . Rather than being attached to an e-mail , files above a few megabyte and under 5 GB in size of it get broadcast to iCloud , and your chosen recipient gets a download link inside the message .
Of course this ties in neatly with the update Mailgot with iOS 9 : the power to sequester any file to an email . If you ’ve take a huge video or document from iCloud , Dropbox , Google Drive or the like to send while you ’re on the go , then Mail Drop is a convenient manner of get it from A to B ( note the file cabinet will still need to be upload — keep an oculus on your data demarcation line ) .
You do n’t have to do anything special to spark Mail Drop , as it just appears as an option whenever you attach a file that ’s above a brace of twelve mebibyte and tap Send . The link is hot for the next 30 days , and the expiration date is imbed into the sent email so both you and the recipient role know when the link is going to be disabled .
As we ’ve mentioned , there ’s a 5 GB limitation in place on the total size of the attachment you send with any one email . Uploaded filesdon’t count against your iCloud quota , but you are special to a total size of it of 1 TB in Mail Drop links at any one time — if you need to beam more , you need to hold back for some of the older 1 to expire .
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