kra_ste

Q: AirDrop from Mac to iPhone not working

HI,

 

AIrDrop was working without problem for some time. But now I'm no longer able to transfer photos from my Mac to my iPhone or iPad. They just do not appear in the AirDrop view in Finder. However, the other way round works perfectly. The Mac appears on both devices as AirDrop target and receives files.

 

i turned wifi and Bluetooth off and on, restarted my Mac and iDevcies. I even tried to sign out and in again to iCloud. Nothing helped.

 

Aby suggestion would be appreciated to get this working again!

Posted on Jun 19, 2016 6:04 PM

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  • by CPUGuy19,

    CPUGuy19 CPUGuy19 Jun 19, 2016 6:08 PM in response to kra_ste
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    iPad
    Jun 19, 2016 6:08 PM in response to kra_ste

    Is your AirDrop on your Mac set to work with older Macs? That might be the problem as older Macs have no AirDrop support with iOS.

  • by kra_ste,

    kra_ste kra_ste Jun 20, 2016 12:58 AM in response to CPUGuy19
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    Mac OS X
    Jun 20, 2016 12:58 AM in response to CPUGuy19

    Thanks for the quick response. I have tried this setting as well, but switch back to 'notmal' mode then. As I said, I havn't changed anything in my configuration. It worked. Now one way doesn't.

  • by kra_ste,Solvedanswer

    kra_ste kra_ste Jun 25, 2016 2:04 PM in response to kra_ste
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    Mac OS X
    Jun 25, 2016 2:04 PM in response to kra_ste

    Problem solved! AirDrop does not work, if there are Contact cards that only have an email address but no name set and the email matches one of my iCloud email addresses. It seems that OSX tries to identify my devices using my Apple ID, but when it looks in the Contacts for who am I, it fails when the name is missing.

     

    As soon as I deleted this "strange" contact card, my devices showed up immediately in AirDrop on my MBP.

     

    Of course, I did not create such Contact cards myself. But the sync with my Office 365 Exchange account brings up a lot of these strange contact cards. OSX syncs the "recently mailed" list, which is hidden on the Exchange server. So even when I delete these contact cards, they start coming back as soon as I email them. Including my own email address.

  • by zab_13,

    zab_13 zab_13 Jun 26, 2016 10:16 AM in response to kra_ste
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    Mac OS X
    Jun 26, 2016 10:16 AM in response to kra_ste

    Thanks for this, it worked for me.