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Q: how to use airdrop between a macbook pro and my iphone 5S ?

Hi everybody,

I think the whole problem is in the title... I have a macbook pro mid 2012 and a brand new iPhone 5S and I do not suceed in using airdorp : impossible to send any file, my iphone's airdrop is switched on but it's invisible from the mac finder. I tryed to share a photo from the iphone using airdrop but it failed et it's the same problem from the mac to the iphone : impossible !

Is there anybody who can help me please ?

Thanks

iPhone 5s, iOS 7

Posted on Sep 22, 2013 8:49 AM

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  • by Mogfather,

    Mogfather Mogfather Apr 28, 2014 5:19 AM in response to Skilitchii
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    Apr 28, 2014 5:19 AM in response to Skilitchii

    Agreed with many of the replies to this query, really Apple should give different names to the apps, I would suggest Airdrop Mac and Airdrop iOS.

    My experience is Airdrop works fine Mac to Mac or iOS to iOS, so the principle of Airdrop (transferring files over a local WiFi network) works as expected.

    Solutions such as using iCloud storage, iMessage or emailing the required file is dodging the issue, we really want to transfer locally quickly and cleanly without going via the wider Internet and perhaps impacting on data allowances.

    Of course you might transfer files using iTunes and this could be accomplished either by USB or WiFi syncing, but I personally don't always want to sync just to transfer a movie or a few photos, and I might want to transfer my files to or from a device I wouldn't normally sync with.

  • by Meg St._Clair,

    Meg St._Clair Meg St._Clair Apr 28, 2014 6:43 AM in response to Mogfather
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    Apr 28, 2014 6:43 AM in response to Mogfather

    So tell Apple what you want:

     

    Http://www.apple.com/feedback

  • by its_rich,

    its_rich its_rich May 16, 2014 7:30 AM in response to Skilitchii
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    May 16, 2014 7:30 AM in response to Skilitchii

    I have solved this problem by using an iPad as a middleman.

     

    You Airdrop the image from your iPhone to your iPad.  Then the iPad's photostream is automatically synced with the Mac. Two steps, about 30 seconds delay.

     

     

    You set your iPad to sync its Photostream with iCloud / My Photostream.

    iPad Settings.jpg

    You set your Mac to sync the iCloud / My Photostream

    Screen Shot 2014-05-16 at 9.26.26 AM.png

    You initiate the AirDrop from your iPhone, wait about 30 seconds, and voila, it's on your Mac.

  • by Meg St._Clair,

    Meg St._Clair Meg St._Clair May 16, 2014 11:21 AM in response to its_rich
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    May 16, 2014 11:21 AM in response to its_rich

    its_rich wrote:

     

    I have solved this problem by using an iPad as a middleman.

     

    You Airdrop the image from your iPhone to your iPad.  Then the iPad's photostream is automatically synced with the Mac. Two steps, about 30 seconds delay.

     

    Why go to all that trouble when your iPhone Photostream is (or can be) also synced to your Mac?

  • by ckuan,

    ckuan ckuan May 16, 2014 4:01 PM in response to Meg St._Clair
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    May 16, 2014 4:01 PM in response to Meg St._Clair

    Why go straight when you can beat around the bush?

  • by its_rich,

    its_rich its_rich May 16, 2014 7:07 PM in response to Meg St._Clair
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    May 16, 2014 7:07 PM in response to Meg St._Clair

    Because I don't want every picture on my phone to be synced to iCloud. I have many many pictures on the phone, and I don't quite like having the battery drain and bandwidth hogging that comes with syncing every phone snapshot with the Borg via the "straight" path. Snark fail

  • by rccharles,

    rccharles rccharles May 16, 2014 7:40 PM in response to its_rich
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    May 16, 2014 7:40 PM in response to its_rich

    Look at,  it's an air that works.

     

    "Dukto is a simple application that allows you to share files between devices connected to the same (wireless) LAN network."

    http://www.tidal.it/?page_id=309&lang=en

    http://www.msec.it/blog/?page_id=11

  • by Meg St._Clair,

    Meg St._Clair Meg St._Clair May 17, 2014 6:50 AM in response to its_rich
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    May 17, 2014 6:50 AM in response to its_rich

    its_rich wrote:

     

    Because I don't want every picture on my phone to be synced to iCloud. I have many many pictures on the phone, and I don't quite like having the battery drain and bandwidth hogging that comes with syncing every phone snapshot with the Borg via the "straight" path. Snark fail

    Snark? No, just an explanation of how to use the devices as intended rather than through Goldberg-esque work arounds.  I have about 2000 pictures on my phone, they get synced to Photostream. iPhoto then saves them to my computer. It only happens over WiFi so it's not using your cellular data. It's also quite simple to delete photos you don't want synced from PhotoStream.

     

    But, honestly, I don't care how you decide to do it. I just care that people understand it's not necesary and that there's a simpler, more direct route. Do what works for you.

  • by gjain,

    gjain gjain Jun 20, 2014 12:34 PM in response to Pakk1969
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    Jun 20, 2014 12:34 PM in response to Pakk1969

    No, but they have not disappointed users by releasing a software with exactly same name on 2 different platforms with exactly same capabilities, which do not work with each other. 

  • by gjain,

    gjain gjain Jun 20, 2014 12:39 PM in response to macartz
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    Jun 20, 2014 12:39 PM in response to macartz

    On another thought, you can't do much with your TV anyways if you do not have remote

    There are rarely any buttons on TV for direct control these days

  • by Chris CA,

    Chris CA Chris CA Jun 20, 2014 12:52 PM in response to gjain
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    Jun 20, 2014 12:52 PM in response to gjain

    gjain wrote:

     

    No, but they have not disappointed users by releasing a software with exactly same name on 2 different platforms with exactly same capabilities, which do not work with each other.

    But they will work with each other when iOS 8 & Mac OS 10.10 Yosemite are released in the fall.

  • by PierresFamily,

    PierresFamily PierresFamily Jul 10, 2014 7:22 PM in response to its_rich
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    Jul 10, 2014 7:22 PM in response to its_rich

    Glad that works for some! But since we don't have an iPad (yet!), does anyone have any ideas otherwise? I get apple insider news and a couple tech newsletters, but haven't seen anything about the possibility of air dropping from my iPhone to my MAC. I just don't understand why this possibility is omitted!! : ) I have a 5-minute video of my hubby doing a presentation, and can't get it out in mail due to it being "too long," even AFTER  downloading Apple's mailvideo APP. It tries to break it into 54-second segments. : ( thought if i could air drop the entire video onto my MAC, I could then attach it to mail for my inlaws. Thanks for ANY help. : )

  • by Meg St._Clair,

    Meg St._Clair Meg St._Clair Jul 10, 2014 8:49 PM in response to PierresFamily
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    Jul 10, 2014 8:49 PM in response to PierresFamily

    PierresFamily wrote:

     

    Glad that works for some! But since we don't have an iPad (yet!), does anyone have any ideas otherwise? I get apple insider news and a couple tech newsletters, but haven't seen anything about the possibility of air dropping from my iPhone to my MAC.

    You will need to wait until iOS 8 and Yosemite are released in the fall.

  • by rccharles,

    rccharles rccharles Jul 11, 2014 9:57 AM in response to PierresFamily
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    Jul 11, 2014 9:57 AM in response to PierresFamily

    Air drop like software that works today.

     

    "Dukto is a simple application that allows you to share files between devices connected to the same (wireless) LAN network."

    http://www.tidal.it/?page_id=309&lang=en

    http://www.msec.it/blog/?page_id=11

     

    Folks seem to have missed my earlier post.

  • by caroltswk,

    caroltswk caroltswk Jul 31, 2014 3:53 AM in response to bubbles1611
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    Jul 31, 2014 3:53 AM in response to bubbles1611

    Google Drive works great though.

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