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NearlyLegal Author

Level 1

10 points

Handoff/Continuity not working.

This is frustrating as everything was working on the Yosemite beta.

Neither handoff nor continuity working between 2012 Macbook Pro and either iPad Mini or iPhone 5s. Working between iPad and iPhone. Clean install of Yosemite.

Initially Airdrop was limited - iOS devices wouldn't see MBP. Also iOS devices wouldn't pair via bluetooth. I then tried deleting bluetooth prefs on the MBP and restarting, switching airdrop off and on, switching iCloud off and on. Both iOS devices restarted (several times). At this point Airdrop started working both ways.

But apart from a momentary functioning of Handoff when the iPhone was plugged into the MBP by usb - which turned out to be unrepeatable - Handoff resolutely refuses to work.

All on the same apple ID. and exactly the same set up that was working in the Yosemite beta.

Any ideas? This is driving me up the wall.

MacBook Pro, OS X Yosemite (10.10)

Posted on Oct 18, 2014 12:04 PM

18 replies

Nov 26, 2014 3:30 PM in response to Michael Paine

I now can use my iMac to make and receive mobile phone calls. I was looking at this page for another problem I was having with Airplay and realised that the tips might work for phone calls.

https://medium.com/@mariociabarra/wifried-ios-8-wifi-performance-issues-3029a164 ce94

"...you can fix your Yosemite WiFi issues, at the cost of disabling AWDL and AirDrop, by typing the following command at the OSX terminal:

sudo ifconfig awdl0 down

And vice versa to restore AirDrop and AWDL (and the WiFi issues)

sudo ifconfig awdl0 up

For clarification: that’s “a w d (lowercase L) (number zero)”

Restart your Mac after executing the Terminal command

This only uses continuity if the Mac and iPhone are on the same wifi network - which always happens when I am in the office. My understanding is that AWDL allows the Mac and iPhone to talk directly to one another via wifi/bluetooth but this may be causing problems.

Nov 30, 2014 11:55 PM in response to Michael Paine

Hmm - the system is working too well! An older iMac is now "ringing" when a mobile phone call comes in. I went to System Prefs to stop this happening and the Handoff checkbox option was not there. Looked up this support page

OS X Yosemite: Pick up where you left off with Handoff

"If you don’t see the option below “Recent items,” your Mac doesn’t support Handoff."

So the old iMac is connected but there is no way to turn it off (haven't tried answering a call with it yet)

Slpy_Day

Level 1

5 points

Sep 30, 2015 4:34 PM in response to NearlyLegal

This solution worked for me with 2012 mbp retina. The com.apple.bluetooth.plist is under Mac HD/Library/Preferences. Thank you

Handoff/Continuity not working.