bluetooth connection fails iOS 8.0.2 OS X yosemite

IMRAN wrote:

Incredible to have the latest MacBook Pro with latest Yosemite 10.10.1 and latest iPhone 6 Plus with iOS 8.1.1 and can't connect two APPLE devices to each other over Bluetooth that people have been able to connect separate vendors' products together with for a decade or more. Yet one more Apple defect I am experiencing. Unbelievable.

Imran

Why are you trying to connect via Bluetooth. It isn't necessary or possible. All connections using Bluetooth between iOS 8 and Yosemite are completely automated. There is nothing you need to do except enable the Handoff and text message forwarding on the phone and phone calls on Face Time on the Mac.

You can continue to Pair your iOS 8 phone with your Yosemite Mac all day and all night and you will never achieve whatever it is you are trying to accomplish.

Dudfighter wrote:

I get a short-lived "connected" then...disconnected.

And that's all you'll ever get as it doesn't work that way anymore. All bluetooth functions between iOS 8 and Yosemite are completely automated. You can pair your phone to your Mac all you want and you'll never achieve anything with that.

OK...but how come I can't make or receive phone calls from the computer? I could do that just fine with the iPhone 5 (running iOS 8.2). I can handoff things like Safari, but not the phone?

and yes, my iPhone 6 has "iPhone Cellular Calls" enabled...and yes...I'm on the same network.

...interestingly enough I can receive calls (that function seems to work) on the computer, but I can't initiate calls FROM the computer. Am I mistaken in thinking that is even possible?

It works, the phone and computer have to be connected to WiFi, and you make the call from your contacts

I wish it did...but it doesn't. When going into contacts (on the iMac, or my MacBook Pro for that matter) and trying to initiate a call, it "call failed" every time. Certainly I can initiate the call from the iPhone, but there is no "pick-up" by the computer. So, I'm still stuck...

Dudfighter wrote:

OK...but how come I can't make or receive phone calls from the computer? I could do that just fine with the iPhone 5 (running iOS 8.2). I can handoff things like Safari, but not the phone?

Did you get a request for a pairing code on your 6?

If you didn't (or did but not working) disable it and re-enable.

Yes, I do in fact get a pairing request (and code) and each time (even after cycling BT), I get a momentary "connected" indication on the computer, then it disconnects.

Appreciate the efforts to help troubleshoot - I'm still open to suggestions.

Tthe whole "connecting" "disconnecting" nonsens is just chaff. Ignore the Bluetooth shstem Prefs. It has absolutwly nothing to do with Continuity. It connects because you told it to. It then looks around and figures I out it has no bluetooth services compatible with the OS and disconnects. That's what I've been trying to communicate with all of you trying to use the Bluetooth system

prefs. Your iPhone should not be paired at all with your Mac. It "connects" on its own when necessary. If the continuity fu from s

do not work, it has nothing to do with what you see in the bluetooth system prefs.

Same issues with my phone and macbook. They discover each other, I click connect, then it says that the macbook is not supported.

charron19 wrote:

Same issues with my phone and macbook. They discover each other, I click connect, then it says that the macbook is not supported.

Exactly. That's what I've tried to explain here in a half dozen posts. There is no reason to pair your iOS 8 device to a Mac running Yosemite. One, it won't work. and Two, even if it did, there is nothing it can do. Stop pairing you iPhone to your Yosemite Mac.

Ok... I only noticed this when I was having trouble send pictures from my iphone to my macbook through airdrop. I couldn't get that to work either despite trying everything. Sometimes my macbook would find my phone in the airdrop folder of finder, but I could never connect or send files or anything. Is airdrop not done through bluetooth?

charron19 wrote:

Ok... I only noticed this when I was having trouble send pictures from my iphone to my macbook through airdrop. I couldn't get that to work either despite trying everything. Sometimes my macbook would find my phone in the airdrop folder of finder, but I could never connect or send files or anything. Is airdrop not done through bluetooth?

I'm not certain about the new Airdrop between iOS and OS X, but in the past, AirDrop was a WiFi thing. When I was testing it out, I was having odd issues, then I noticed that my iPhone was connected via the 2.4 GHz WiFi and my Mac was on the 5 GHz WiFi. While it was the same network, it caused problems with Airdrop. Based on that, I assume it is still WiFi.

Regardless, the fact that you cannot get your iPhone to stay connected with you Mac via Bluetooth has nothing to do with Airdrop working or not.

You might try setting Airdrop to allow Everyone. Some others found that to work.

Interesting, thanks for your help. I've had issues with bluetooth since purchasing my macbook. When I first got it, it would find my wireless speakers connect, then disconnect after a second or two. I tried for days searching a resolution and couldn't find anything that fixed the issue. ugh