Yosemite iOS8 airdrop only from mac to iphone.

I have the same issues! But other macs can't see my macbook retina mid 2013 either !!! The craziest thing is this issue does not happen always, i mean: my iphone and other macs have seen my macbook on airdrop and sent me files!, i even can send files to any device, but no one can send files to my cause they don't see me ... I have tried everything on this discussion and as I said before, people see mi mac sometimes some times don't, and I have the exact same configuration when they see me, or don't .... I believe this is a big bug !

Spot on! Firewall issue!

Turning firewall off made it work and also then change to automatically allow signed software receive incoming connections worked too.

Works 100% now whereas before I could only send from mac to iPhone 6

I have faced the same problem, and after checking that everything is fine , and the network allows bluetooth sharing, i have logged on and out several times from my iCloud account, which appeared to be the problem , because after I resolved that issue, it is working fine now. make sure you use the same iCloud account.

My firewall was off and I tried this and it still didn't work. Any other bypass's?

I finally got this to work. My firewall was off on my Mac. I had to turn it on and check "automatically allow signed software to receive incoming connections"

But Airdrop must be done without iCloud.

I have checked and mine says ON and still it doesnt work! 😟

Tried everything that everyone had suggested repeatedly. Nothing worked for me, then DELGADOS's (Yosemite iOS8 airdrop only from mac to iphone.) suggestion struck me as exactly what was going on. I checked my system (about this mac/system report) and discovered that my system was undiscoverable. I then navigated to the ~/Library/preferences folder, and found my latest com.apple.bluetooth.xxxxx file. opened it and that's the image you see below.

I then unticked it, closed the file, and then reticked it.

Thereby resetting the plist file. It had obviously become corrupted.

DING! Worked.

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Thanks Milex Xx. What program is it that you opened the com.apple.bluetooth.xxxxx.plist file in? Mine keeps defaulting to text edit but shows me a long text string. Thank you for the help!

My solution: In the Sharing panel of the Mac System Preferences, turn off Bluetooth file sharing. That was preference was switched on for me and I have never been able to airdrop from my iPhone 5s (iOS 8.3) to my Macbook Air - Mid 2012 (OS X 10.3.3 Yosemite). I had the sharing panel open in my iPhone Safari app when I switched off the Bluetooth File Sharing on my Mac and INSTANTLY my Mac showed up as an Airdrop target.

I believe that's XCode that's opening the pList file. I could be wrong.

SOLVED: Go to Security and Privace -> Firewall -> Firewall Options -> and tick "Automatically allow signed signed software to receive incoming connection" and untick "Block all incoming connections".

Solved: Connect your lightening cable from your Mac USB to iPhone and launch image capture on the Mac and transfer the photos.....lol

i was having the same issue.

I changed this setting to rectify:

System Preferences > Network > WiFi -> Advanced -> Make sure (Create Computer-to-computer networks is checked)

I have been struggle on this issue, how ever I found a way how to fix and it just worked on my macbook air. First, make sure that your mac airdrop is on for everyone and so does for your iPhone. While you are trying to airdrop a content from your iOS device, try to turn off your mac bluetooth and turn it back on. now take a notice on your iOS device if you can see your mac on the airdrop list. at the first stage, if you still not see your mac on your iOS airdrop list, just keep trying to turn off and on the bluetooth on your mac. 🙂