airdrop between iOS 8 & Yosemite

Yes, both are on the same Apple ID. I can't drop the file. That's the bug. The Mac does not show up in airdrop on the phone and the phone does not show up in airdrop on the Mac.

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I am working with two Macs, so it may work differently. I found I had to have both set to 'Discover by contacts Only' and the new machine had to search for an Older machine before it worked.

Negative. that option is already off for me. I'm running a mac book air released this year. and an iphone 5. Would that posibly make a difference?

Tha'ts the problem. they are both using the same icloud account but I want to air drop between my mac and iphone that is file going from mac book air to iphone using air drop. i don't have a downloads folder on my iphone so this is not goign to work.

(for this post's purpose yOS = Yosemite)

Went to Apple Store

Spoke with iOS Apple Genius

He told me it is considered one of Apple's beta features

He did a total restore (software and firmware) on my NEW iPhone 6 (aren't they all new at this point?).

Took about an hour to restore all my files

AirDrop Worked PERFECTLY! (iOS to yOS and yOS to iOS)

2 days later...my iPhone 6 does not see yOS AGAIN!

Resolution: Calling a feature "beta" in a non-beta product means we it does not have to work.

Remember when Apple's theme is to be "it just works"? Yes I do...

I can use Airdrop to send files from my phone to my mac, but when I try to send a file from my mac to my iPhone 5S, it says my device doesn't have the necessary services

@crbennett

Have you found a work around for your "Invisible Mac"? I had tried changing the password for my iCloud account (because that also eliminated a 'ghost' Mac in the Text Message Forwarding pane on my iPhone running 8.1, which showing a previous install of 10.10 beta on a different, now removed partition on the same Macbook) - but apart from eliminating the 'ghost' Mac from the Text Message Forwarding pane on my iPhone not much happened. Still, I can't see my Macbook from either iPhone or iPad, although everything works between iPhone and iPad and also I can see my iPhone/iPad from the Mac... crazy!

@samaki

Thanks for checking in on me. I have both good news and regrets. The good news—and I hope this is very encouraging—is that something I've done in the last day or two has cleared up the problem on the one Mid-2012 MBP that was so stubbornly invisible. What I'm sorry to say is that I don't know which of the many things I've been doing cleared it up.

You see, I've also been clearing up troubles with seven nodes in a Back To My Mac installation which is carried over a pair of Airport Expresses between our home and our small business office across town. In doing that, I've been deleting and re-adding iCloud identities, Apple ID aliases, and network configurations. The Macbook Pro I was having trouble with has been traveling back and forth between sites, joining networks, finding its way back home, etc. One of the ways I test BTMM from a site I'm at is to disconnect an iPhone and tether the MBP through it, so I'm accessing the LAN in front of me through the AT&T connection and through our Airport Express from the outside world. The problem I ended up fixing on the BTTM network seems to have also been in broadcasting addresses and refreshing remote DNS service subscriptions to Apple's BTTM servers. (Local network BTTM and remote SSH access had always been working.)

Somewhere along the way—and I can't say precisely when—the MBP stopped hiding from AirDrop peers. It's now doing the AirDrop the same way as all the other machines.

I wish I had more to offer than generalizations, but somewhere along the way, I seem to have re-initialized something that had been uncooperative.

The good news, certainly, is there was something that could be done to fix it, because it did get fixed.

(In the meantime, I'm now unable to use the Bluetooth to tether to the AT&T network. I can only connect using the USB lightning connector and turning on the WiFi/USB Personal Hotspot on the iPhone. Once I get a few more things tweaked, I might return to that.)

@crbennett

Thanks! Glad to hear you got it working.

Yesterday for a moment I also thought I had solved it. When switching to my wife's account I could not only see the rMBP from her iPad but also from my iPhone... and not only this, very strangely, I could also send an image from my iPhone to my account on the rMPB... went therefore back to my account where everything Airdrop (but probably not Handoff) worked suddenly. My joy however was rapidly tamed as my rMPB quickly decided to go hiding again (likewise, I never managed again to get it visible from my wife's account again).

Looks like a bug.

@crbennett

A quick update: I have tried the new Continuity Activation Tool on my mid-2011 Macbook Air... which worked, but it's exactly the same story as for the rMBP. No Handoff, 'The Invisible Mac', no Instant Hotspot. The only thing that works is Airdrop from the Macbook Air to my iPhone or for instance, my wife's iPad... weird!

For me this did not help. I have the iPhone5 with OS 8.1 and a mid 2012 iMac with Yosemite. I tried it all. System Preference settings and restarting all devices etc. No chance. Neither is my iPhone recognized on the iMac nor my iMac on the iPhone.

I was told by a level 2 support tech on the apple support line that you could NOT Airdrop transfer between my MBP mid 2010 and IOS devices. You could MAC to MAC or IOS to IOS but not MBP to IOS.

Certainly that is not the intended case, but it seems the feature is not stable in the current 10.10 to 8.1 configuration.

Looks like Apple has a lot of fails this year... Airdrop on Yosemite to iOS8 works perfectly, but from iOS8 to Yosemite almost never work. Neither it works iOS8 to iOS8. Anyone knows if there is a fix for it?

Glad to find this forum post. I'm running the latest versions of Yosemite on my MBP 2012 and my iPhone 5S.

First day I upgraded to Yosemite, continuity and airdrop work. It was amazing. Afterwards, kaputzzz. Airdrop can't even find each other on either devices now. 😟

I just tried with 3 macs (2011 and 2012) and Yosemite : Airdrop fails.. I never could send any files from Mac to Mac, to or from iPhone.