Coupee36

Q: iPhone 6   ios8.0.2 AirDrop problems?

Hello,

 

I have an iPhone 6. I have updated to ios8.0.2.  Recently over the weekend I just realized I am unable to AirDrop to my iphone 5 or my other friends iPhone 6 and 5 that were sitting next to me.  I have tried to allow air-drop contacts to EVERYONE but I am still unable to air drop.  The option to Air-Drop basically does not appear on my iphone 6.

 

I went ahead and tried to air drop on my iphone 5 and the option to air drop to my friends iphone 5 works just fine, but hte option to air drop to my iphone 6 is not appearing.

 

Please help.. thanks.

iPhone 5, iOS 6.1

Posted on Sep 29, 2014 1:59 PM

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  • by copperbo,

    copperbo copperbo Dec 22, 2014 5:14 AM in response to bardwell03
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    Dec 22, 2014 5:14 AM in response to bardwell03

    BLUF:  Zoomed setting on iPhone 6 Plus would not display "Accept or Decline" pop-up to initiate file transfer.

     

    I hope this will help you out:

     

    I have a late 2012 Mac Mini and an iPhone 6 Plus.  My settings for Airdrop are set on "Everyone" and every time I tried to send a .mov file it showed "Waiting..."  My phone would show up in the finder sometimes but when I initiated a file transfer I never got the "Accept or Decline" pop-up on my iPhone.  I'd wait until my Mac Mini would finally report that my iPhone declined the file transfer.  After a few times restarting both iPhone and Mac, I moved on to other things and started my research.  What really frustrated me was that I had just transferred a 14GB GoPro movie yesterday on the 3rd attempt.

     

    I was getting frustrated with my intermittent Airdrop success and happened to stumble upon another issue with a zoom setting on the iPhone 6 Plus.  I changed my zoom back to standard and there was the pop-up "Accept or Decline" boxes!!!  Weird enough as that sounds I was no longer on the same wifi network as my Mac. There are many other functions of apps on the iPhone 6 Plus that seem to be limited once this Zoom function is activated.

  • by Dakanloth,

    Dakanloth Dakanloth Apr 26, 2015 9:34 PM in response to Coupee36
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    Apr 26, 2015 9:34 PM in response to Coupee36

    I Recently got an iPhone six and while my roommate was able to send items to me I was unable to send anything back.

     

    what worked for me without resetting anything was re-naming my phone. It was set as "iPhone"

     

    settings -> general -> about -> name

     

    as soon as I changed the name the airdrop started working for me as intended.

    Hope this helps!

  • by jandwy,

    jandwy jandwy May 2, 2015 6:34 AM in response to Goat-E
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    May 2, 2015 6:34 AM in response to Goat-E

    Thank you! Worked like a charm and this had been annoying me for a while.

     

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  • by Coupee36,

    Coupee36 Coupee36 May 17, 2015 9:49 PM in response to jandwy
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    May 17, 2015 9:49 PM in response to jandwy

    I apologize for the late reply.  The original issue I had with the AirDrop and my iPhone 6, ended up with an Apple brand new phone replacement.  I brought it into the Apple store that following week, and they had 3 different techs. trying to resolve it, but non of them were able to figure it out.  They ended up sending me to another store and picking up a brand new iPhone 6.

     

    UPDATE: Though the replacement phone does work with AirDrop now, it is still buggy.  I keep having to restart the phone each time I want to AirDrop, or else it keeps failing.. .  It never seems to work without a restart, and its become super frustrating.  I have the most recent iOs 8 update too, and still the same BS.  Not sure what the issue is, but I really do hope apple gets a grasp on this.  I have 3 iPhones (work, personal, gf), macbook, and an iPad.  i rely on AirDrop a lot to sync to my devices, and its frustrating.

  • by avm99963,

    avm99963 avm99963 May 31, 2015 10:42 AM in response to pedro d
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    May 31, 2015 10:42 AM in response to pedro d

    Hey, thanks a lot pedro!

     

    Closing and opening again Garageband finally did let me Airdrop one song from my iPhone 6 to my iMac. Isn't it weird? I thought the sharing popup with the AirDrop section wasn't executed as part of the app but rather as part of the operating system.

     

    Thanks again!

    avm99963

  • by AceyPilot,

    AceyPilot AceyPilot Jun 23, 2015 4:55 AM in response to copperbo
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    Jun 23, 2015 4:55 AM in response to copperbo

    This was a definite fix for my iPhone 6 plus with mac pro and mac book pro AirDrop issues! Thanks for the info. You are right, other functionalities are restored using the normal non-zoom setting. I am now re-discovering my iPhone 6 plus.

  • by Shonass,

    Shonass Shonass Jul 21, 2015 4:55 PM in response to Goat-E
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    Jul 21, 2015 4:55 PM in response to Goat-E

    Thank you!! That fixed it for me ☺️

  • by nanisx,

    nanisx nanisx Sep 18, 2015 10:40 AM in response to Shonass
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    Sep 18, 2015 10:40 AM in response to Shonass

    I have an iPhone 6 plus, iPad air 2 and a Macbook Pro, with iOS 9 final on both iPhone & iPad and El Capitan GM on the mac.

    No device could see the other 2 on Airdrop, tried lots of tricks, here is the output:

    Resetting location and privacy data and a restart fixed the iPhone but not the iPad.

    Logging out of iCloud and back again together with a reset of Location and privacy and a restart fixed the iPad.

    Seems there was no problem initially with the mac, so now the 3 devices see each others over Airdrop.

  • by odellandrea,

    odellandrea odellandrea Feb 17, 2016 7:40 PM in response to Dakanloth
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    Feb 17, 2016 7:40 PM in response to Dakanloth

    Yes! That worked for me as well. A much simpler solution than the other suggestions I was finding. Thank you!!

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