Keynote for Mac crashes when attempting to link to Keynote for iOS on iPad mini

I'm having this exact problem. Just updated iPhone, iPad mini, and my mac's Keynote verison and now Keynote on my mac is crashing everytime I try to link to the phone or ipad. Would love a fix!

Thanks,

Alan

Exactly the same issue here. Even tried reinstalling both.

I'm having the exact same problem

I am having the same problem Keynote crashed on several ocassions. I have completed crash reports on first couple of ocassions but seems to be a software fault, or difference between iOS and OSX versions of the progamme.

I have iPhone 4S and iPad 2 both running latest iOS. The phone can control a presentation on the iPad. My wifi system is common to all devices.

After many hours of dealing with the same problem I was able to find a fix that worked for a client of mine. Make sure your Mac has a name.

1. Apple menu (top left corner)
2. System Preferences
3. Sharing (third row)
4. Make sure that you have something filled in for the computer name. Normal convention is Jon's MacBook Air or somethign similar.
5. Close the window (there is no save button)
6. Try linking your device again.

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Squirrelist - your fix worked for me! Thanks so much!

Solved my problem. Who would have thought it was something simple like this. 🙂

This worked for me as well

keyonte freezes, and I need to quit in order to restart. This version of Keynote is a huge failure. Switch back to the older version. It is better. Steve Jobs would never have put up with this. Linkining is not as much of a problem as having to quit the program and restart the presentation.

keyonte freezes, and I need to quit in order to restart. This version of Keynote is a huge failure.

There are many missing elements that were available in Keynote 5.3 but for new presentations, Keynote 6.1 performs as well as expected. I suggest updating to 6.1 if you have not done so, if you have, you should reset Keynote by deleting then re-installing from the Mac App Store.

thank you for your hint, even apple support couldn't help me 🙂

I'm so happy!

Squirrelist, you are a genius. Can't believe you figured out how to fix. I've used Macs my whole life and the thing I always loved about them was that they just worked. But lately, I'm starting to doubt. You, however, should be on retainer! Thank you.