AirDrop is not working after new iOS 17 update

I’m stil having this problem, I am on 17.2.1 now and stil airdrop is not working on my IPhone 13pro. I tried the settings and the cellular thing. This is very annoying. When you user airdrop the first time you can see someone is there, bud nothing is showing up. When you close airdrop and try to open in again it won’t open at all. You have to close you foto’s app and than it starts al over again.

Airdrop not listed in the Content & Privacy Restrictions list of Apps! Why is that?

Also been having trouble with sending photos using Messages. I’ll be in the Photos App, select photos to send via a Message, (the photos of most recently used text partners not showing any photos) when I tap on the green Messages icon, no response. Same when I tap on the AirDrop icon. No response

Usually I can go to Settings>Messages, turn off Messages. Then turn off my iPhone 15 Pro, then restart it, go back to Settings turn Messages back on, and that fixes the problem but only TEMPORARILY!

iOS 17.2.1

Problem resolved - original problem was my Iphone 13 Pro would not air drop to my Ipad 12.9 (2nd gen) but I could Air Drop from my Ipad 12.9 to my Iphone.

Just upgraded the with the latest software release 17.3 on my Iphone 13. I can now Air Drop both ways but must have 'Everyone for 10 minutes' checked.

Hope this helps. Good luck!

In the past year apple is a disappointment for my and my business air drop is not working phones and mac books slow . I will switch from this as i has enough of you guys since Steve Jobs has died you don’t have any ideas anymore you becoming nokia …

I had the same problem on my wife's iPhone 15 Pro with iOS 17.3.

When airdropping from my MacBook Pro macOS 10.15.17 the transfer failed every single time.

I turned the mobile data off as suggested by @75Westy and it worked like a charm. 👍

It's also worth noting that transfers between my iPhone 12 iOS 17.3 and my Mac have been working just fine.

Been waiting far too long for a fix for this. I’ve owned iPhones and iPads long enough wifi wasn’t required to AirDrop between my own devices. Your update broke far more than it fixed. My new phone will not be an iPhone and my grandchildren can have this iPad Pro for a toy…. Enough is enough. See ya Apple…

This is a massive issue, I know a bunch of people that have the same issue including me, I have spent hours trying all these mentioned fixes, don't waist your time, non of them work, AirDrop is broken, it no longer works,

I was having the same problem on my iPhone 11 Pro Max (on iOS 17.4). My AirDrop suddenly switched to “Receiving Off” out of nowhere and I couldn’t change it; neither to “Contacts Only”, nor to “Everybody for 10 minutes”. I couldn’t fix it despite trying everything I found on Google, including reviewing my Screen time settings and checking AirDrop settings in the General Settings of iPhone in the Settings app.

But, I force restarted my iPhone (didn’t see it anywhere on Google - just clicked in my mind) and luckily it worked. My phone became super hot after restart, just for a while and has cooled down now, but the AirDrop is working fine now. I think it was some bug of the new iOS update.

Anyone else who is having this problem, please try and force restart your iPhone if other solutions on Google don’t work.

Thanks.

Airdrop always work good for me until iOS 17 not sure what happened but the only way I can AirDrop is if I hold my phone close to the other phone and even then it don't work half the time what happened I'm on iOS 17.4 still exact same story Please fix this in iOS 18

Hello everybody, I am back after I found a stupid but probably obviously solution when you talk about electronic devices.

In my last comment that I could not found [:D] I was talking that I have the same issue with my iPad and iPhone after both devices got iOS 17 AirDrop just stop working.

Well one day my iPhone got completely discharged at night. So next day in the morning I been forced to charge my iPhone.

Then I noticed that AirDrop just come back and work again.

Then I completely forgot that I leave a comment in this post; after maybe one month of use AirDrop with no problems.

I was trying to transfer some files between my iPhone and iPad then my laptop.

Then AirDrop just stop working again.

This time I took the decision to Turn OFF the iPhone and iPad.

Well, after restarting both devices AirDrop come back again, and I keep working normally.

Conclusion: Just Turn OFF and Turn ON the Apple device to fix AirDrop.

lol hehehe [^.^]

My Problem was Solved by Apple --> Here is How: I had a similar problem when AirDropping from an iPhone 11 to a MacBook Air M1 (not working after an iOS17 update), chatting with apple support and escalating to a Senior technical Level and after trying a few things which didn't work at all (Network Reset, VPN apps uninstalled, VPN configurations deleted, Force Hard Reset, Router and Internet device reset, AirDrop Off/On, Wifi Off/On, Bluetooth Off/On, Software Update, ScreenTime->Apps Allowed-> AirDrop Off/On), They found an app (DaVinci Resolve) that was configured in the native Mac Firewall that was creating the problem, so I just block the app in the firewall and it worked properly back again. The only thing that we didn't try (it was the last step) was backing up the phone and restore it to factory settings.

Hope this gives you one more clue on what to look at.

Thank you, that clue was all I needed: Firewall in Mac OS 14 was the problem all along! On the MacBook Pro (Mac OS 14.4.1), I went to Settings--->Network--->Firewall but could not add or delete anything from the list of allowed or blocked apps. (In fact, Settings froze completely and I had to force quit.) But I went back to Settings and turned OFF Firewall, turned it back ON, and now everything is fine.

Apple needs to fix the Firewall problem in Mac OS 14.

Been using workarounds for months now to airdrop from my recent SE phone and iPad Air, several times waisted a lot of time to try different suggestions from this forum and all to no avail…..rebooting numerous times this morning on both my devices still no improvement for the last decade at least always could airdrop without any problem until about 6 months ago and thought well ……..next update Apple will get this fixed but not so and this is getting very disappointing.

will just have to accept the fact that texting to my devices is the way to go and forget about Airdrop………..R.I.P. Airdrop

Finally fixed my Airdrop by turning Private WiFi Address on!

Don’t know why it was turned off or when but now my Airdrop is working again.

You find this in your Settings by tapping on the “i” after your SSID name.

Hope this helps.

Oh wow! Thank you for posting this! It worked for me. So frustrating because I bought into the Apple ecosystem because I wanted to airdrop files to my different electronics, and then when I updated to 17.4 it stopped working. Turning off cellular is a small price to pay to still have the airdrop working.