airdrop not working (iOS8 and Yosemite)?

I have a macbook pro (Late 2010) and according to the things that I have found then it should be able to connect with my iphone 5s but for some reason it wont. i dont even have he option to start airdrop on my mac. once i click on the airdrop feature on my macbook it wont recognize my phone

AIrDrop is not working very well for me either. I have a new iPhone 6 a new Mac Pro on Yosimite and an iPad Air. AirDrop appears to fail more times than it works. I called and talked to Apple yesterday. They had me turn AirDrop off on my iPhone then back on to contacts only. It worked a few times after that but today even that fails to work. I think they still have a few kinks to work out. It's odd because I've used an app called InstaShare and it works every single time. Maybe Apple should have just bought that company?

i have MacBook Pro Late 2011, and it also does not work.

Is there anyone from apple who can help?

Why can't apple make it backward compatible. It used to work before Yosemite with my iOS8.0.2

To SalbaheNgParanaque

AirDrop never worked between iOS devices and Macs prior to Yosemite. Mac to Mac, yes.

same problem!

Yeah for me too ... airdrop never worked from iphone to mac...

and now i have YOSEMITE on mac (mid 2011) and iOS 8.1 on my iPhone 5S....and nothing !!!

they still cant see each other....

Had the same issue but after 3hrs and four different people at Apple support we got it to work.

1st we got the iPhone to be able to see the MBP by disabling the firewall

System Preferences>Security & Privacy>Firewall>Turn Off Firewall

2nd we were able to get it to work with the Firewall

Firewall Options...>sharingd>Allow incoming connections>Automatically allow signed software to receive incoming connections

But what Mac hardware are you using?

I'm given to understand that the list of devices they said would be supported is no longer active. The key thing is a specific feature in Bluetooth that did not come along until well into 2012 (or later from some devices).

My Firewall is currently off and it seems to make no difference.

MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Late 2013) but I had the same issue where I could send files from my mbp to my iphone but not the other way around.

I tried your suggestion on a mid 2012 MacBook Air. It does not work for me. The MBA can see the phone (5c) but the iPhone cannot see the MBA. I thought this could work over WiFi if available, but apparently not. I am not happy with being denied some new features because I have a machine that is only 2 years old.

greetings,

iMac late 2012 10.10

iPad Air 8.1

iPhone 5S 8.1

iPhone to iPad Airdrop works fine

iMac to mobile devices does not work unless i turn OFF the iMac firewall. once turned off, it works fine.

is there an exception i can add to the iMac firewall so that it can be on all the time?

thank you

ba

edit

tried this suggestion. works from iPhone to iMac, but iMac does not see iPhone in Airdrop window.

2nd we were able to get it to work with the Firewall

Firewall Options...>sharingd>Allow incoming connections>Automatically allow signed software to receive incoming connections

Well, both my macs are with yosemite (one is a macbook pro 2012 model and the other is a macbook air, this year's model) and neither pick each other up in airdrop. I found this frustrating as, in the past, I loved that feature! It was invaluable for me to transfer my files.

So what's the deal? I've turned airdrop on on both computers, made sure that both could "see" everyone, but they don't connect, they're sitting right next to each other.

Then, while I was looking up this page, the forum turns up on the other computer as well! ***?

Bluetooth is enabled, wifi is enabled, still no airdrop.

Other than an old wheel iPod, I don't have another apple device, so I can't see if the problem is the same there. I've even tried the old "shut down and reboot" and nothing changes.

I have a mid 2012 MBP (10.10) and an iPhone 5S (8.1).

MBP can see iPhone, iPhone can't see MBP.

Having read this thread I tried restarting my iPhone.

iPhone can now see MBP and I can send files both ways.

Hopefully the problem is now solved for me - time will tell.

The best solution: install the Instashare app on every device, old and new. I use that instead of airdrop which doesn't work on pre-2012 machines (to iOS and back) or which has a lot of hick ups. Now my 2 ipads, 2 iphones, 3 macs are connected without any problem and it works super fast, actually faster than airdrop. It's a mystery to me why an outside company app can do things better than a built-in tool... The app will cost you like 4 euro or so to install cross devices (Mac app and ios app.