Airdrop not working on El Capitan

Turn off bluetooth on your mac, delete: /Library/Preferences/com.apple.Bluetooth.plist turn bluetooth back on

thank you! it works for me! 🙂

Well the airdrop did not work again after it showed up for a few minutes. I've talked to the Apple People online and on the phone, we have tried everything but nothing worked.

The last thing they asked me to do is to go to a retail store and have a genius looked at it and checked if there was any problem.

I'm surprised that once i got there talked to a genius about my problem, and then connected to their Wifi, Airdrop suddenly worked!! They did not even do anything yet.

but now, I'm back at home, connected to my own wifi, it is NOT WORKING...im trying to look into it. maybe the wifi causes the problem, i don't know.

Oh my god!!! I've to say Apple ***** 😟 😟😟

When I look in Library/Preferences/ the only Bluetooth file I see is com.apple.BluetoothFileExchange.plst is this the one you mean? Should I delete this?

Yes! Delete it. And then empty trash and turn bluetooth back on and it should work.

I Just gave up, now I'm using Bit Torrent Sync and I'm really impressed so far. I would Recommend that if you are wanting to share large files from your mac to your iPhone go with it. best part is you can see the same exact file and change that file from your phone iPad etc from anywhere. you don't even have to be close to your mac for it to work.

that doesn't work for me

Resetting all settings did the job! 🙂

Resetting all settings did the job! 🙂 it fixed my imessage, facetime and airdrop problems all together! 🙂

I also deleted an old version of the The Unarchiver and Airdrop started to work again (MBP 15" late 2013 w/ El Capitain).

Hi. I have the same situation, here at home with our WIFI it doesn't work. But when I went to my friend's house brought my mbp retina and iphone 6 I was able to use airdrop. This is diving me nuts.

Same problem here. "Restore both devices"....the worst advice possible...and it dind't work

Did not work

If I want to transfer files from my iMac to my iPad Airdrop won't work if I have them both switched on at the start. The way I get Airdrop to work is as follows:

Turn on the iMac but keep the iPad turned off. Select the files on the iMac and click on Share - Airdrop. Of course the iPad does not appear on screen as it is switched off. So then I switch on the iPad and then it shows up. For some reason switching off the iPad and switching it on only after selecting the files and clicking Share-Airdrop enables it to make the connection. Airdrop works fine this way but only this way. Hope this helps.

I have the same problem. iOS 9.2.1 on iPhone, El Capitan MBRro 15 " Retina. AirDrop works sometimes. Continuity and Handoff works without a problem. So it's not a problem with Blutooth, WiFi is working correctly. It seems the problem only with AirDrop...