I have an iPhone 14 Pro running iOS 17.0 and a Mac Book Pro 16" running Sonoma 14.0 Every time I try to AirDrop I get a failed notification. I was previously able to AirDrop bewteen the two. I have toggled the radios on both WiFi and Bluetooth and have toggled the AirDrop feature as well. Find my iPhone and Find my Mac are both enabled.
iPhone 14 Pro
I spent HOURS at the local Genius Bar trying to get this issue fixed. Hours more on several phone sessions with senior tech advisors at Apple.
But the guy on the phone actually pointed me in the direction of resolving the issue myself.
My problem was that I had several different contact cards for myself, each for a separate purpose, but they all had my Apple ID on them (both email and phone) and 2 of them had my secondary Apple ID that I use for App Store and iTunes Store purchases.
I modified those cards so that only one of them contained my main Apple messaging ID phone number and email. That information was removed from ALL other cards. then I made sure that the same contact cards on my phone were identical to those on my Mac.
Restart, restart.
Problem solved: AirDrop and HandOff now both work as they should in both directions.
My laptop is company-owned and the admin is running Jamf Pro. I did the first sudo and restarted the laptop but the problem persists. Do I ask the admin to run the second sudo?
This worked for me!
this is extremely unacceptable! I am a creator and I use my iPhone regularly to record and take pictures. I also need to send it to my Mac somehow to edit them, they have to fix this asap!!
Air drop is absolutely horrible never works
so many people reporting this issue and I have yet to see an official response from Apple
Unfortunately, it doesn't work on my Mac.
This worked..
AirDrop conitnually Failing between iPhone and MacBook
