No Airdrop

27 Jan 2015 16:03:57

John Surtees

At the Fareham meeting on Saturday John gave an interesting talk on the various methods available for sending files between Apple devices. Trying to get this to work between a new Mac Mini running Yosemite and a iPhone 5s (iOS8) is proving to be a problem. On opening Airdrop on the Mac, all I get is the Airdrop window. Inside that window is just the blue Airdrop logo with the two lines of type below it.

Am I correct in thinking there should be a similar sized named graphic, that I should be able to drop files onto?

On the iPhone, there is no indication of a connection between the two devices, yet I have both Bluetooth and WiFi on.

Re: No Airdrop

27 Jan 2015 18:49:04

Mick Burrell

Forgive me for asking the obvious John but you do have Airdrop turned on on the phone? (Control Centre)

Re: No Airdrop

28 Jan 2015 07:38:37

John Hooper

In Control Centre on your iPhone, try setting Airdrop to Everyone.

If this works and you don’t want to be seen by other nearby iOS devices, set it to Contacts Only and put your own details in as a contact.

Re: No Airdrop

28 Jan 2015 09:37:48

Douglas Cheney

There is an article at this web address that will help with airdrop
http://9to5mac.com/2015/01/24/yosemite-ios-8-how-to-set-up-and-use-airdrop/

Re: No Airdrop

28 Jan 2015 09:57:10

John Surtees

Thanks all

Have both turned on Airdrop on phone and set to everyone. I have a Bluetooth keyboard so know that Bluetooth is beaming out. Still nothing, but did a restart and it seems to now be working. We don’t usually turn the Mac off. So it just shows that the occasional reboot can be beneficial.