AirDrop showing the wrong name and picture with iOS 7

Im having this issue as well. I have 2 children my husband and I all using the same apple id and syncing to the same acount but we all have our own email addresses and phone numbers. I am showing up as my daughter, my husband is showing up as my son and my kids have not updated to iOS 7 yet. With imessage and Facetime ther are settings you can go and choose which addresses to be identified as. Air Drop has no tab in settings. I cannot figure out how to fix it.

Give everyone their own Apple ID and add it to their contact information

Looks like we may have to live with it then, as having their own Apple ID will not work as my children are all 14 and under, Airdrop would have been handy for pic share and stuff, but I suppose we can still imessage them.

You may find this of interest:

http://www.mactrast.com/2013/08/apple-allows-itunes-accounts-for-children-under- 13/

Also you can use Shared Photo Stream to share photos and now video.

http://support.apple.com/kb/TS4379

Axeman1020, appreciate all your input thus far, but it really seems off the mark. I am having the same issue as everyone else. When I try to share something via AirDrop, my daughter's name and photo pop up as the name (the kind of device listed is actually correct). It is only the name that is screwed up. We have four devices (an iTouch 5, two iPhone 5's, and an iPad Mini). Yes, all four devices are registered through the same Apple ID. For those of us with kids...this makes by far the most sense. Do you really think we want our kids running around with their own Apple ID and iTunes account access? Not to mention the separate apple ID makes no sense when you consider "find my iPhone" app needs to have all devices registered under the same iCloud account. But all of this is off the mark.

The issue is with AirDrop

This seems like a simple fix to me. Shouldn't we be seeing the DEVICE'S NAME when trying to use the AirDrop feature? Just like when I turn my phone into a hotspot. Those sitting around me see it as "Mike's iPhone" - that is the device name. Why are we not seeing the device name along with the "my contact" info that is assigned to that specific device (showing us their picture if they have one in contacts). That's where this feature is broken. With AirDrop, you can share content with known contacts, or you can share content with anyone running ios 7 and the correct hardware. So if I'm in line at Starbucks and I want to shoot a pic over to some nice old lady using AirDrop, she has ios 7 and we both have iPhone 5's, why is she going to see my daughter's name?? It makes no sense?...my Apple ID or our iCloud account set-up has nothing to do with it. It is my device communicating with another device via bluetooth and a wifi virtual network.

So again, why are we seeing the wrong name listed on all of our ios 7 devices on AirDrop?

Exactly. This happens in photo stream too

My mom has by dads name. And my dad has his correct name.

Then My wife changed her name when she got married to me. But it still has her maiden name on there. No where in our contacts does she have her maiden name.

I can't figure this out...

Did she change her name on her Apple ID account?

No...

I just went on her phone. She is logged in with my Apple ID.

All of my information is on there when I log on with it. I don't understand where it gets her first name and her maiden name on airdrop and photo stream. Wouldn't it have my information?

I am having a similar issue with iMessage. We have 7 devices under one ID but unique emails, never had a problem until iOS 7 update. Now if I msg my wife the name changes to my daughters name. Haven't tested airdrop just yet but I'd bet they are related somehow.

Axeman1020, I hear what you're saying. However, it makes sense that people would share Apple IDs... if I buy an App that's $5 and my wife wants it... I'm not going to pay for it again. It's ridiculous. So sharing Apple IDs within families is logical. For Apple to know this and yet have AirDrop only recongnize a device by it's Apple ID is silly. Unfortunately this ridiculousness has been standard op for Apple lately. 😟

That sounds like a Facebook contact thing to me (maiden name). Check your contacts to see if there are multiple contact records for her. If so, you can go into iCloud Contacts and highlight all of them and then click "card" in menu ==> select "merge and link selected cards." Or you could always just turn off the sync between your contacts and Facebook.

Axeman1020 New Jersey, USA

Re: AirDrop showing the wrong name and picture with iOS 7

Sep 19, 2013 3:18 PM (in response to rtpnchawk)

I understand your frustration but as I explained before, AirDrop recognizes the device only by the Apple ID associated with it. You can name your device whatever obscure name you want but your Apple ID is your Apple ID. That is the way it is designed for better or worse.

Just one question on this point, if this were actually true, why oh why would it be my daughter's photo and name isted for our single Apple ID? AirDrop is basic bluetooth networking protocol, it should have nothing to do with an Apple user ID. It is one device networked wirelessly to another device in a relatively small amount of physical space. Come on.

Not true. AirDrop verifies via bluetooth but transfers via wifi. It needs both. Try turning one or the other off and it will not work.

How the data travels is really irrelevant. It is how the devices verify each other that you are having trouble with and that is via Apple ID.

klaymaster7

You can share an Apple ID for iTunes purchases and have individual IDs for iCloud. They are completely separate logins.

Axeman1020, sure you could... but then how would my wife and I see our calendar events or notes or contacts or reminders which are all shared over the same iClound ID. When I make a calendar event, she can see it. When I make a note, she can see it. When I add a contact, she can see it. And vice versa. It's an awesome feature for us that we'd lose if we had different iCloud IDs.