especially the fallback 2.0 is notoriously slow and short ranged.

So that’s why my Bluetooth file transferring back in like 2015 was slow as balls! I also assumed it was the devices I had. Lol. Which is weird considering I could have sworn I had also done BT file transfers with other devices previously and it seemed a lot faster. (None of these were Apple devices).

Ap*le’s iOS is well known to ignore BT file sharing capabilities while implementing own proprietary solutions.

Rude.

[Everything else you said]

That makes a lot of sense! Thanks for explaining. :D