AirDrop showing the wrong name and picture with iOS 7

Thought I would post what worked for me.

After the latest ios7 upgrade, the wrong contact was associated to my device.

To correct this go to settings -> mail, contacts, calendar

Scroll down to the contacts and you will see "My Info". Select the correct contact card.

not sure about the pic, but try going to setting, then general, then about... your name maybe there

It's to do with the Apple ID that you sign in to iCloud with, which is where AirDrop gets the user details. You are able to sign into the store and iCloud with separate ids so you just need to create an id for each family member that they will use only for iCloud . You don't have to associate any payment details with the account so kids are safe

Each device uses the family Apple ID to sign into the store so they can all access the apps and content paid for under that account and then uses the users own id to sign into iCloud.

As long as each of the ids has the users name in the account details you will see the right name appearing in airdrop.

You will have several iCloud accounts to manage but that is no bad thing as you will actually gain lots of free storage and won't have your iCloud cluttered up with your teenagers drunken party photos.

I forgot to mention you have to remember to add each of the email addresses for each new Apple ID into the family members contact cards otherwise if you have airdrop visibility set to contacts only you will not be able to see each other.

GottaLoveTechnology wrote:

Here's how the problem was solved:

1. Added a backup email account to my Apple ID (also a gmail account)

2. Removed all other personal and business email addresses from my Apple ID account

2. Went into settings on the iPad for Messages - selected the backup email account for Messaging

All devices now show the correct name (the name assigned to each device in the General>About>Name field

Not sure why the business gmail email accounts seemed to be causing AirDrop problems but the above worked for me.

Thanks! I had the exact same setup of two phones and an iPad. This solution worked for me too! It seems that the iCloud alternate email addresses were somehow overriding the personal contact information. I knew this because mu wife showed up as "ipad" (one of the alternate emails) and had the iCloud picture.

So anyone else who has a shared iCloud account and isn't quite ready to try out Family Sharing might want to try this. Leave only ONE email configured for iCloud that is independent of any one person. If you have a personal account currently set as primary you may have to change it (this will change your Apple ID for that account). For the record I already had an independent email as primary for iCloud so all I had to do was delete all the alternate emails.

You can still add additional emails in iMessage and FaceTime as needed.

I finally fixed the issue by taking the email off the offending contact card (it was similar, but not the same as mine, but once I took it out, it fixed the issue).

Not only did I follow your advice, but in my case, my wife and I share the same iCloud account as family account (as there was no family share for so long), she has recently got her own AppleID and etc... but in her contact card, there was the AIM ID referring to our shared iCloud account. Just deleting that AIM ID from her contact card made it all work.

So it could be AIM/email/or anything else that you share... watch out! its very poorly designed IMHO.

WOrked for me!

I had the same problem

When I airdrop to my girlfriend, it was showing my brother,a name on her phone (he is on the same Apple ID/iCloud account) we found that the Apple ID email address was on my brother's contact info on her phone but not mine so it showed that it was coming from him. She deleted it from his profile and put it on mine and then it was fixed

Hope this helps

Yes but you still haven’t answered about the find my phone. It requires you to share iCloud to work which condemns this fix