N. Groom

Q: AirDrop showing the wrong name and picture with iOS 7

AirDrop is showing the wrong name and picture on my wife's phone....It is showing my name and picture.  She has an iPhone 5 and I just updated her to iOS7 about an hour ago, same time as I did mine. Is it because we are connected with the same Apple ID and if so, how do I fix it?  She is annoyed by it and not seeing where I can change it in the settings is beginning to annoy me.  Help!

iPhone 5, iOS 7

Posted on Sep 18, 2013 1:07 PM

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Q: AirDrop showing the wrong name and picture with iOS 7

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  • by GottaLoveTechnology,

    GottaLoveTechnology GottaLoveTechnology Mar 25, 2014 3:40 AM in response to N. Groom
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    Mar 25, 2014 3:40 AM in response to N. Groom

    Well, after trying many of the suggestions on this post, here is the only thing that solved the issue for me.

     

    Have the following devices:

    2 iPhones

    1 iPad

     

    Have one Apple ID that is shared by all devices.

     

    My Apple ID email address, business email addresses and personal email addresses are all Google addresses (gmail).

     

    Apparently, there was some type of conflict between all (some?) of the gmail addresses and AirDrop displaying the correct device name and image.

     

    Here's how the problem was solved:

     

    1. Added a backup email account to my Apple ID (also a gmail account)

    2. Removed all other personal and business email addresses from my Apple ID account

    2. Went into settings on the iPad for Messages - selected the backup email account for Messaging

     

    All devices now show the correct name (the name assigned to each device in the General>About>Name field

     

    Not sure why the business gmail email accounts seemed to be causing AirDrop problems but the above worked for me. 

  • by plainsane,

    plainsane plainsane Apr 4, 2014 6:43 PM in response to N. Groom
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    Apr 4, 2014 6:43 PM in response to N. Groom

    Thought I would post what worked for me.

     

    After the latest ios7 upgrade, the wrong contact was associated to my device.

     

    To correct this go to settings -> mail, contacts, calendar

    Scroll down to the contacts and you will see "My Info".  Select the correct contact card.

  • by Sheirah,

    Sheirah Sheirah Apr 15, 2014 4:04 PM in response to N. Groom
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    Apr 15, 2014 4:04 PM in response to N. Groom

    not sure about the pic, but try going to setting, then general, then about... your name maybe there

  • by Lt.Rightenant,

    Lt.Rightenant Lt.Rightenant May 24, 2014 2:20 PM in response to Sheirah
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    May 24, 2014 2:20 PM in response to Sheirah

    It's to do with the Apple ID that you sign in to iCloud with, which is where AirDrop gets the user details. You are able to sign into the store and iCloud with separate ids so you just need to create an id for each family member that they will use only for iCloud . You don't have to associate any payment details with the account so kids are safe

     

    Each device uses the family Apple ID to sign into the store so they can all access the apps and content paid for under that account and then uses the users own id to sign into iCloud.

     

    As long as each of the ids has  the users name in the account details you will see the right name appearing in airdrop.

     

    You will have several iCloud accounts to manage but that is no bad thing as you will actually gain lots of free storage and won't have your iCloud cluttered up with your teenagers drunken party photos.

  • by Lt.Rightenant,

    Lt.Rightenant Lt.Rightenant May 24, 2014 2:23 PM in response to Lt.Rightenant
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    May 24, 2014 2:23 PM in response to Lt.Rightenant

    I forgot to mention you have to remember to add each of the email addresses for each new  Apple ID into the family members  contact cards otherwise if you have airdrop visibility set to contacts only you will not be able to see each other.

  • by SierraQ,

    SierraQ SierraQ Dec 10, 2014 11:25 AM in response to GottaLoveTechnology
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    Dec 10, 2014 11:25 AM in response to GottaLoveTechnology

    GottaLoveTechnology wrote:

     

    Here's how the problem was solved:

     

    1. Added a backup email account to my Apple ID (also a gmail account)

    2. Removed all other personal and business email addresses from my Apple ID account

    2. Went into settings on the iPad for Messages - selected the backup email account for Messaging

     

    All devices now show the correct name (the name assigned to each device in the General>About>Name field

     

    Not sure why the business gmail email accounts seemed to be causing AirDrop problems but the above worked for me.

     

    Thanks! I had the exact same setup of two phones and an iPad. This solution worked for me too! It seems that the iCloud alternate email addresses were somehow overriding the personal contact information. I knew this because mu wife showed up as "ipad" (one of the alternate emails) and had the iCloud picture.

     

    So anyone else who has a shared iCloud account and isn't quite ready to try out Family Sharing might want to try this. Leave only ONE email configured for iCloud that is independent of any one person. If you have a personal account currently set as primary you may have to change it (this will change your Apple ID for that account). For the record I already had an independent email as primary for iCloud so all I had to do was delete all the alternate emails.

     

    You can still add additional emails in iMessage and FaceTime as needed.

  • by nogardtla,

    nogardtla nogardtla Jan 9, 2015 9:15 AM in response to N. Groom
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    Jan 9, 2015 9:15 AM in response to N. Groom

    I finally fixed the issue by taking the email off the offending contact card (it was similar, but not the same as mine, but once I took it out, it fixed the issue).

  • by hakt0r,

    hakt0r hakt0r Jan 14, 2015 10:30 PM in response to N. Groom
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    Jan 14, 2015 10:30 PM in response to N. Groom

    Not only did I follow your advice, but in my case, my wife and I share the same iCloud account as family account (as there was no family share for so long), she has recently got her own AppleID and etc... but in her contact card, there was the AIM ID referring to our shared iCloud account. Just deleting that AIM ID from her contact card made it all work.

     

    So it could be AIM/email/or anything else that you share... watch out! its very poorly designed IMHO.

  • by L Fredrik Jonsson,

    L Fredrik Jonsson L Fredrik Jonsson Jan 26, 2015 8:58 PM in response to ziggy6894
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    Jan 26, 2015 8:58 PM in response to ziggy6894

    WOrked for me!

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