Macbook Air (mid-2012) won't pair with iPhone 6

Hello!

So it is totally normal, that If I paired the Mac with iPhone, and press to connec, it said "MacBook pro is not supported" ?

If it's normal, then everything fine.

Thanks

Instant hotspot worked for me after I connected to my hotspot using the old method, with a cable. After that, for instant hotspot to work, your iphone's cellular connection must be turned on. "Instant" gave me the impression that my mac would also turn on my phone's cellular connection and I spent a good hour figuring out that this isn't the case 😢.

Cardinalraven wrote:

I have a 15 inch late 2013 Retina Macbook Pro. I'm trying to pair it with an iPhone 6 plus with ios 8.1 and I am having the same issues. ****** off!!!!!!!!!

And you obviously haven't read any of the thread you posted to. You cannot pair any iPhone with any computer. It isn't supported. It never has been supported. And iOS 8 and Yosemite hasn't changed that. It also isn't necessary to pair to use any of the continuity features.

Nepster wrote:

Hello!

So it is totally normal, that If I paired the Mac with iPhone, and press to connec, it said "MacBook pro is not supported" ?

If it's normal, then everything fine.

Thanks

Yes, that's normal. There is no need to pair, as continuity features use a transient mode of BlueTooth 4 that does not require that the devices be paired.

Thanks Lawrence Finch,

I did end up getting some of the features working intermittently, that is I have made a call but still cannot receive them through my Mac. It does seem like it is improving though. SMS works and that's about it for now. I deleted my iCloud account and then re-added them to get this progress. Thanks for the time you have taken to try to help us all. I just think Apple has made it clear as mud. They are starting to feel a little like Microsoft when they seemed to own the world. I guess there really isn't anything better out there just yet, or maybe it's all just a first world problem and we should all just be grateful.

It has not been well explained by Apple. It's reasonable to assume that if a feature uses BlueTooth then the devices need to be paired. I only figured it out because I have biometric sensors that don't require pairing - and the instructions for them state that clearly.

RESOLVED:

Mid-2012 MacBook Pro and iPhone 6 Continuity and Hand off

I was able to get continuity and instant hotspot working after hours of trying every forum post on the internet. What finally worked for me was:

Make sure you are logged into Facetime on your iPhone as the same ID as your Apple ID. Somehow I didnt have this configured correctly, and soon as I did, continuity and instant hotspot appeared on my macbook pro.

I spent about 2 hours on the phone today w/senior apple support specialists. All hardware is compatible withe these features.

it works that the MBA will 'send' stuff to the iPhone, but not the other way. phone calls going either direction don't work.

I even did a clean install of iOS 8.1 on the iPhone 6+, to no better results.

I really wanted the handoff, not the continuity, since most of my time my phone is next to my laptop anyway, continuity really didn't give me much. But being able to call from my mac using my iPhone was the real draw.

I guess I'll wait for an update, or perhaps do a clean install of Yosemite, but I'm really not that desperate for the features.

Good luck to others out there - let me know if you get it fixed!

This worked for me to resolve no continuity as well as uni-directional Airdrop from MBP to iPhone 5S iOS 8.1 only. With this simple toggle on both MBP and iPhone, I now have both features working fine (MBP = mid 2012 Retina)

Hello i have iphone 5s and macbook pro mid 2013, i followed everything you said but handoff doesn't want to work...
any other ideas...

*In my iPhone -->Settings --> phone there is no Wifi calling

*Also at facetime when i log in and open the preferences there is no iPhone Cellular Calls

Ok iPhone Cellular Calls at FaceTime appeared...but still handoff not works

HANDOFF WORKS both from iPhone to mac.I asked new code for iCloud and it works....

i 'am trying 2 days...thanks for the post!

Same problem here.Only difference is its my Mac is the Mid 2012 MacBook Pro Retina Yosemite 10.10 with an iPhone 6 iOS 8.1. Would really like to use this feature.

i realy fed up i can nt pair my 2012 mid macbook air and iPhone 6 , 8.1 . and also handoff. what can i do ? it looks everybody has same problem. why  don't solve it? any atention?

I'm really fed up with people who post messages like yours without bothering to read the messages in the thread they posted to, which have the answers. If you had bothered to read any you would know that you cannot pair 2 computing devices like an iPad and an iPhone, and that there is no need to pair them to use Continuity features. However, you DO have to set them up as described in the manual and in Knowledge Base articles that have been linked to a dozen or so times in the thread.