iOS9 Airdrop to Mac not working

Trying to connect iPhone 6+ iOS9 to 2013 iMac OS X 10.10.5 via Airdrop but not showing up on iMac or iPhone, worked perfectly before iOS 9.


iPhone can Airdrop to another iPhone and iMac can Airdrop to another Mac, but not iPhone to/from Mac.


iOS update was originally done OTA and have reinstalled through iTunes.


Have tried all suggestions I have come across but still they won't connect.


Anyone have similar problems?

iMac, OS X Yosemite (10.10.5), 21.5 in 2.9GHZ i5 16 GB

Posted on Sep 18, 2015 7:13 AM

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Sep 29, 2015 1:28 AM in response to macrobin

I had the same problem. Neither of my devices (MacBook Pro with El Capitan GM, iPad Air with iOS9, iPhone 5 with iOS9) could see my iPhone 6 (iOS9) in AirDrop

And - as silly as it might sound - changing iPhone 6 name helped. Once I did that - it did appear on all other devices.


Checked now and it does not showing again on Mac (it is ok on other devices)... So I am on the same boat as all of you ;-)

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