Bluetooth on ios 8 can't connect with iMac 10.9.5

iMac12,2

10.10.2 (14C109)

I also am having problems with AirDrop. I want to connect my iPhone 6 (iOS 8.1.2) with my 6 month old iMac running OS 10.9.5. Nothing is working at all with it.

I want to transfer a few photos that I have taken and some video's. If I email the video's to myself they end up very small. I was told by another Mac user that using airdrop the won't be made smaller. I don't want to connect my iPhone to my computer with the lightning bolt (or what ever it's called) I want to connect and move only what I want to move and not have my phone tied up for 20-30 minutes to back up and download, etc.

I need this to work today. There has to be a solution available right now. Why in the world would Apple come up with Air Drop and then design it so that is will not work connecting my iPhone 6 to my new iMac?

On another note, I refuse to use iCloud and would love to have my iPhone stop asking me to log in.

Should work, make sure Bluetooth and WiFi are turned on.

AirDrop between iOS and OS X devices was not introduce until iOS 8 AND OS X 10.10 (Yosemite). You will have to update your computer.

I want to use AirDrop exactly for the same reasons you mention. Why there's not a solution...? I don't know, but, if you use iCloud Drive to store your photos and videos, you will burn out 5G sooner than you think, and then start to pay to have more space available. Anyway...

That's the first thing I did... Sorry but your comment doesn't help at all...

You can try resetting your devices and your router. make sure Airdrop is set to everyone on your iOS device and you are in AirDrop on your computer. I just Airdropped some pictures from my iPhone to my computer I'm using right now so I know it works.

As I posted before, I am using iOS 8 AND OS X 10.10 (Yosemite) and doesn't work at all... So other than updating OS and have Wifi and Bluetooth active, any other useful clue...?

I believe that Airdrop does not connect via bluetooth. It simply requires that bluetooth is turned on. You do not pair the devices.

Mac Basics: AirDrop lets you send files from your Mac to ...

Use AirDrop to wirelessly share content - Apple Support

I was replying to the other person about 10.10 (you can read who the reply is to in the heading).

On your iOS 8 device try Settings > General > Reset > Reset Network Settings. On your iMac turn WiFi off and back on and make sure you are connected to the same WiFi network as the iPhone.

Sorry but I did all you mentioned and still doesn't work. Furthermore, before that I could see on AirDrop iPhone/iPad each other, now only iPhone on my iPad, and nothing on my iMac.

You said earlier that you have an iMac 12,2. That's a mid-2011 27" iMac, correct?

If you read the documentation on AirDrop linked to by roaminggnome previously you will see that AirDrop between iOS 7/8 devices and OS X requires two things at the Mac end: OS X 10.10 and a 2012 (or later) model Mac (i.e. a Mac that supports Bluetooth 4.0.) Your mid-2011 iMac does not support Bluetooth 4.0 and so cannot AirDrop to/from iOS devices, only other Macs. Yosemite isn't enough, you have to have a recent model Mac as well.

I have an iMac, circa 2009, with the OS X Yosemite, with the 10.10.3 version.

I'm trying not to sync my iPhone6 Plus to my computer, for fear of losing some music from my playlist. I've added to my playlist on my iMac, and would like to add this to my iPhone6 Plus. I can't seem to air drop, either. Is my computer, just too old? With this being said, how do I add to my iPhone6 Plus playlist, from my iMac?

Yes, it is too old for AirDrop but you couldn't use AirDrop for music anyway. There is no File Transfer Protocol (FTP) profile on the iOS devices Bluetooth so that won't work. You are going to have to sync either by cable (fastest) or WiFi.

Thank you for your response.

Ok. This is what I am trying to do. I have downloaded some audiobooks to my iMac, and have added them to my Playlist.

I would like to listen to them on my iPhone6 Plus, or my iPod (3rd generation).

How can I do this WITHOUT syncing my devices, and possibly losing some of the other audiobooks that I still have on them. I'm just afraid of losing items, with a sync. That's why I use the iCloud to back up my iPhone, instead of my computer.

Thank you, ahead of time, for a response.