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

So tell Apple what you want:

Http://www.apple.com/feedback

I have solved this problem by using an iPad as a middleman.

You Airdrop the image from your iPhone to your iPad. Then the iPad's photostream is automatically synced with the Mac. Two steps, about 30 seconds delay.

You set your iPad to sync its Photostream with iCloud / My Photostream.

You set your Mac to sync the iCloud / My Photostream

You initiate the AirDrop from your iPhone, wait about 30 seconds, and voila, it's on your Mac.

its_rich wrote:

I have solved this problem by using an iPad as a middleman.

You Airdrop the image from your iPhone to your iPad. Then the iPad's photostream is automatically synced with the Mac. Two steps, about 30 seconds delay.

Why go to all that trouble when your iPhone Photostream is (or can be) also synced to your Mac?

Why go straight when you can beat around the bush?😁

Because I don't want every picture on my phone to be synced to iCloud. I have many many pictures on the phone, and I don't quite like having the battery drain and bandwidth hogging that comes with syncing every phone snapshot with the Borg via the "straight" path. Snark fail

Look at, it's an air that works.

"Dukto is a simple application that allows you to share files between devices connected to the same (wireless) LAN network."

http://www.tidal.it/?page_id=309&lang=en

http://www.msec.it/blog/?page_id=11

its_rich wrote:

Because I don't want every picture on my phone to be synced to iCloud. I have many many pictures on the phone, and I don't quite like having the battery drain and bandwidth hogging that comes with syncing every phone snapshot with the Borg via the "straight" path. Snark fail

Snark? No, just an explanation of how to use the devices as intended rather than through Goldberg-esque work arounds. I have about 2000 pictures on my phone, they get synced to Photostream. iPhoto then saves them to my computer. It only happens over WiFi so it's not using your cellular data. It's also quite simple to delete photos you don't want synced from PhotoStream.

But, honestly, I don't care how you decide to do it. I just care that people understand it's not necesary and that there's a simpler, more direct route. Do what works for you.

No, but they have not disappointed users by releasing a software with exactly same name on 2 different platforms with exactly same capabilities, which do not work with each other.

On another thought, you can't do much with your TV anyways if you do not have remote 🙂

There are rarely any buttons on TV for direct control these days

gjain wrote:

No, but they have not disappointed users by releasing a software with exactly same name on 2 different platforms with exactly same capabilities, which do not work with each other.

But they will work with each other when iOS 8 & Mac OS 10.10 Yosemite are released in the fall.

Glad that works for some! But since we don't have an iPad (yet!), does anyone have any ideas otherwise? I get apple insider news and a couple tech newsletters, but haven't seen anything about the possibility of air dropping from my iPhone to my MAC. I just don't understand why this possibility is omitted!! : ) I have a 5-minute video of my hubby doing a presentation, and can't get it out in mail due to it being "too long," even AFTER downloading Apple's mailvideo APP. It tries to break it into 54-second segments. : ( thought if i could air drop the entire video onto my MAC, I could then attach it to mail for my inlaws. Thanks for ANY help. : )

PierresFamily wrote:

Glad that works for some! But since we don't have an iPad (yet!), does anyone have any ideas otherwise? I get apple insider news and a couple tech newsletters, but haven't seen anything about the possibility of air dropping from my iPhone to my MAC.

You will need to wait until iOS 8 and Yosemite are released in the fall.

Air drop like software that works today.

"Dukto is a simple application that allows you to share files between devices connected to the same (wireless) LAN network."

http://www.tidal.it/?page_id=309&lang=en

http://www.msec.it/blog/?page_id=11

Folks seem to have missed my earlier post.

Google Drive works great though.

The upcoming release of Yosemite will have a feature called "Handoff". Pickup what you've been working on with one device on another device. This sounds as though it will be as seamless as airdrop between iOS devices.

The reason I'm here now, is because I had some video on my iPhone that I want to edit in iMovie on my Mac, and was trying to airdrop it. I've attempted airdrop from iOS devices before, never with any success, but shrugged my shoulders and found a different way. I was hoping to find out HOW to airdrop it, but, I'll message or email the clips and import into iMovie….