Quick AirDrop

Trigger the macOS AirDrop sheet straight from Raycast.

Commands

• AirDrop Selected File — Send whatever is selected in the frontmost Finder window.
• AirDrop Clipboard — Auto-detects what's on the clipboard and AirDrops it:
  • A copied file ➜ sent as a file.
  • An http(s) URL ➜ sent as a link.
  • Plain text ➜ saved to a temporary .txt and sent.
• AirDrop Browser Tab — Sends the URL of the active tab in your browser. Requires the Raycast Browser Extension.
• AirDrop Selected Text — Sends the text currently highlighted in the frontmost app. URLs go through as links; anything else is dropped into a temporary .txt.
• Copy Last AirDropped File — Copies the most recently received AirDrop file to the clipboard.
• Paste Last AirDropped File — Pastes the most recently received AirDrop file straight into the frontmost app.
• Search AirDropped Files — Browses every file received via AirDrop (newest first) with copy, paste, open, reveal, and trash actions. A single file can be moved to the Trash with ⌃X; when the latest transfer contained several files, the whole batch can be trashed at once (with confirmation).

If the last transfer contained several files, the copy/paste commands open a picker scoped to that transfer, with Copy All / Paste All actions.

How receiving works

macOS saves incoming AirDrop files to ~/Downloads and stamps them with a com.apple.quarantine extended attribute whose agent is sharingd, the system's sharing daemon. The received-file commands scan the newest items in Downloads, read that attribute in batched xattr calls, and use the timestamp embedded in it — the exact moment of the transfer — to sort. File modification dates are not used because AirDrop preserves the sender's original dates.

Copying puts three representations on the clipboard, so every kind of app can paste what it understands:

• the file URL — Finder and most apps paste the real file;
• the shell-escaped path as plain text — terminals (and CLI tools like Claude Code) paste the path;
• for a single image, a downscaled PNG (long edge capped at 2560 px) — image-only consumers paste the picture itself; the file URL still points at the full-resolution original.

Pasting is terminal-aware: when the frontmost app is a terminal (Terminal, iTerm2, Ghostty, kitty, Alacritty, WezTerm, Warp, Hyper), the paste commands insert the file's path instead of the file itself, since a simulated paste can only deliver text there.