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I don't have a good asynchronous solution, but if you can do it while on the phone/Teams with them, then Web Wormhole (https://webwormhole.io/) is absolutely fantastic. You both open a web page, you drag a file onto yours and it starts appearing in their download folder.

It's WebRTC based so peer-to-peer, E2E encrypted, with servers only used for serving the client, and for NAT punching.

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What you really want is the native iOS or Android version of this (or of any Magic Wormhole derivative), which the wormhole-william people are working on (I think the Android version already works).

How is an iOS version of this going to be any better than web? It seems iOS imposes a lot of storage restrictions on apps.

Every time you hit the web page you have to re-trust that it's not stealing secrets from you. It's not end-to-end secure; in fact, you literally might as well just upload your whole file to that site and just let it handle the wormholing for you.

Yeah the Android version has been out for a few years[1][2]. There's an iOS target that works as well, I've just never published it to the app store. Every time I start that process I get annoyed at how hostile Apple is to open source developers and give up. Hopefully I can at least distribute a side loadable binary when that becomes a thing for EU users.

[1]: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=io.sanford.wor...

[2]: https://github.com/psanford/wormhole-william-mobile

Apple's walled garden is supposed to be protected from trespassing, so software can't be required to trespass it as breaking protection is computer fraud.

I tried wormhole.app many times and have about a 60% failure rate because there's an error or the download never completes. Don't know the difference with your link but i suppose i should try it next time

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