how to use airdrop between a macbook pro and my iphone 5S ?

Seiously, dude?

Android doesn't include a built-in, wireless share between Android and Chrome OS. Are they "failing very quickly" too?

Put in a feature request and stop whining.

This isn't about Android or Chrome, its about sharing files between devices. First of all, I don't have multiple MACs, I have one, and two iphones. I want to share PDFs, music, photos with each device. I know, we can do photos on imessage that works fine, but what about bigger files? Or music ringtones? Or Office files. So far, I can't find that option on my iphone. So I'm just stating that its of no use to me if it doesn't do what I want, which is what it was designed to do. And no, I don't think apple is failing either. So they made a plastic phone big deal, they sill have the better phone and everyone knows that.

So here's the deal with AirDrop.

If you have Mavericks, you have to sign into iCloud and make sure that all your sharing capabilities are enabled. Also, when you set up your iPhone 5s make sure your keychain and everything are enabled. Its a weird bug I had found. But if iCloud sharing is put toghether properly, you'll get something like this:

Where AirDrop in its technical sense isn't actually used through its traditional interface.

"But if iCloud sharing is put toghether properly..."

leopard_damienCan you explain this in more detail please?

That' s really stupid and unuseful what is the point of Air drop after all! Do I really have to again use my email for sending stuff from my pc to my phone???

Fixit now apple!

Hi All.

Ok I have sent a couple of *.m4r to my wifes Iphone 5 (IOS7) and I can listen to them, but how do I get them into sounds (Cal, message and so on)

/Bo

Wow, now that's really dump. How can those developers always do things half way? Reminds me the pseudo Bluetooth. Too bad that frustration is now permanent part if iOS.

That is very clear... and too bad.

I find this really clumsey to not add... AirDrop between Mac's isn't what it should be, AirDrop on iOS is never used. The only thing that would be handy was sending stuff from Mac to iOS... but I guess Apple isn't that smart anymore.

Thanks for the great tip. I opened Finder>found the file>share>iMessages>entered address and Bingo! Thanks again.

Hacky work around I found for this when I desperately needed photos from my iPhone to my Mac, but didn't have a connection chord:

1) Open iMessage on the Mac.

2) iMessage the photos to someone close (give them a little warning first)

3) Open the conversation between with that person in iMessage in Mac.

From iMessage on your Mac, you can open the photos in preview and save them to your hard drive. You can do the reverse to transfer photos from Mac to iPhone.

That's the way I do it... But Apple should be in deep shame for this.

I am actually surprised that I cant do this. I am familiar with networking and airdrop is supposed to work mac to mac correct? I thought i was doing something wrong. Just turns out mac is turning into pc... great.

Where's the link for putting in a feature request 🙂 ?

-Nick

http://apple.com/feedback

Bleech.

Just email it to yourself.