Coupling my iPad mini or iPhone 5S (both with iOS 8.1.3) via Bluetooth to other devices (as e.g. my MacBook Pro or the Car-Phone or Audio-system) works fine, but to couple both Apple-products with each other doesn't work. Hmmmm…??
Any help most welcome
Thanx - Gerhard
iPhone 5s, iOS 8.1.3
The devices are not designed to pair together via Bluetooth. You can pair to the car, but not to the MacBook or iPhone, except for tethering. What is it you are trying to do and we can try to help.
The devices are not designed to pair together via Bluetooth. You can pair to the car, but not to the MacBook or iPhone, except for tethering. What is it you are trying to do and we can try to help.
thanks for your answer. i just wanted to sync a new contact on my iPhone via AirDrop with my iPad.
Meanwhile I synced it via iTunes.
But what is the reason why Bluetooth doesn't work between Apple products/devices?
That is the way the system is designed. None of us here are involved with the design/implementation of Apple products.
Barry
In addition to what Barry provided, you can share some files via AirDrop, but just moving some data between devices is not supported. AirDrop usage is very new. You used to not be able to do any file sharing at all between devices that way. Syncing was the way to do this, and now you can do that either via iTunes, ICloud, or other cloud service.
As far as any other reasoning, like Barry said, that is the design. Why Apple did it would be speculation, which is prohibited by the TOS of the forum, but many believe it had to do with file sharing and copyright issues with music. It was believed this was the reason for the original restriction. Again though, that is not an official response.
thanks Barry & Chris for your efforts to help me 🙂
AirDrop does not require pairing the devices at all. You just need to have Bluetooth turned on on both devices, and both devices be connected to the same Wifi network.
Discovery is done over bluetooth, the actual transfer is done over wifi.
You can AirDrop contacts :
many thanks for your very useful answer.
br-gerhard
Problem to couple my iPad mini with my iPhone 5S via Bluetooth
