Q: Macbook Air (mid-2012) won't pair with iPhone 6
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Dec 13, 2014 6:16 AMby 65AA98,I worked this out: early 2013 Macbook Pro and iPhone 6. At first, I had the same problem as you described. However, as soon as I turned on Personal Hotspot, it began to work. Now my bluetooth connection between MacBook Pro and iPhone 6 is established. I could use Airdrop, after a few tempts and some 10-20 minutes of waiting... Not sure it's worth the trouble -- you could just send the file through email.
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Dec 30, 2014 3:42 AMby plasticlok,Am having the same problem pairing with MacBook Pro 15" OS X Yosemite (Mid-2012) and iPhone 6+ (iOS8.1.2). It is totally unacceptable and we users have been waiting for this feature for soooooo long and it turns out to be pure frustrations. I purchased only Apple products and it is definitely a shame when these so called high end iOS devices cannot "talk" to each other seamlessly.
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Dec 30, 2014 6:21 AMby Lawrence Finch,plasticlok wrote:
Am having the same problem pairing with MacBook Pro 15" OS X Yosemite (Mid-2012) and iPhone 6+ (iOS8.1.2). It is totally unacceptable and we users have been waiting for this feature for soooooo long and it turns out to be pure frustrations. I purchased only Apple products and it is definitely a shame when these so called high end iOS devices cannot "talk" to each other seamlessly.
It's really obvious that you didn't read any of the posts in this thread, where it has been explained over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over what is going on and how to pair apps between OS X and iOS. But to save you the trouble of actually having to take responsibility see: Bluetooth: Why can't I pair my iPhone or iPad with another iOS device or with my computer?
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Jan 5, 2015 9:15 AMby Boeing777Driver,My FIX: I was experiencing this same issue with both my 2013 MBA and 2014 15" MBP with an iPhone 6. My fix was this: I changed the name of my iPhone and reconnected with both Bluetooth and WiFi. For whatever reason, the new device name wiped out whatever was blocking the connection. This was about 10 days ago and it's been running fine since.
To change the name of your iPhone go to Settings>General>About>DeviceName
Hope this helps.
TripSeven
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May 3, 2015 5:12 AMby Lawrence Finch,And did you read this: Bluetooth: Why can't I pair my iPhone or iPad with another iOS device or with my computer?
Which has been posted several times in this long thread already?
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Aug 15, 2015 2:32 PMby m3wt0,The fact that Apple continuously works on lots of different stuff but isn't able to fix issues like that is so ridiculously stupid. I don't care about "Why can't I pair my iPhone with my Computer". All I want is a solution to be able to transfer files from my iPhone to my mac. And no, none of your suggested solution is actually acceptable.
USB cable --> No, I want to transfer files without cables,
WiFi, iCloud --> No I don't want to upload my files and then download it
email --> No, I don't want to send an email where I also have a limit of 20mb per email
MMS messaging --> Yes, sure. I don't want to pay for transferring my files?!
iMessage --> Ha! Tried that so many times, always had some kind of problems with connection or whatever. Plus I don't want to waste my limited Internet volume
plus many 3rd party solutions such as
Dropbox and OneDrive --> Not possible without Wifi plus same problems as with iMessage.
So it actually does limit the use of my iOS devices in many ways.
Seriously, why do I always need to find solutions to be able to use apple features. AirDrop, Silverlight, Photostream to just name a few of them. Why can't Apple just invent something what actually works? And even if: Why do private users need to write Guides for Apple Customer to make something work?
