In .NET 8, the drag and drop gesture recogniser gets platform args for drag and drop events.
dotnet/maui#16962
.NET MAUI 8 has gained the ability to control on iOS/Mac Cat whether drag previews are kept full-sized when dragging begins:
dotnet/maui#17282
The above PR also shows how to change the drag caption and glyph on Windows.
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