Handoff and AirDrop not working in El Capitan

I am having this same issue. I can see on my iPad and iPhone the tabs I have open on my Mac but not the other way around. Been having this issue since Yosemite with no luck resolving it.

FINALLY. After OSX 10.11.2 Public beta 3 (15C40a) problem for missing Airdrop between OSX and iOS is fixed now without aditional steps. Now all Airdrop phones are visible and connection is fast.

p.s. Handoff for me was working also before.

Just an update with one more positive result for getting Airdrop to work again between iPhone and El Capitan on my retina MacbookPro (El Capitan).

I did not have to do all the steps mentioned above.

Assuming you've got the Airdrop finder window open and have turned on to be able to send to contacts (yourself being one of them):

Enable Airdrop on the sending device (swipe up from home screen and enable if on an iOS device)

If that fails to send anything by enacting an Airdrop:

Try this first and see if you have the same positive result:

1. Go to the computer's hard drive;
2. Do not open the User folder Library.
3. Turn off Bluetooth on computer.
4. Open the system-level LIBRARY>Preferences> delete the com.apple.bluetooth.plist file.
5. Empty trash (possibly optional, but that's what I did)
6. Turn on Bluetooth.
7. Try using Airdrop again. First sign that it will work is when your user's icon appears on both send and receiving devices.
8. select a photo and try the Airdrop from one device to the other. That worked for me.
9. If not, try re-booting both devices and try steps again.

I have had to same problem with airdrop on my phone and computer. I found out how to fix it at leave on my computer.

• Open system preferences
• Click on Sharing
• Go to the very bottom of the the list where it says, "Bluetooth Sharing"
• Make sure the arrow directly to the left of where it says Bluetooth Sharing is turned on.
• Go to the Airdrop tab in Finder
• On your phone, turn your bluetooth on if it's off or off then back on if it's already on
• Make sure you are allowed to be discovered by everyone on both your iPhone and computer

After doing all of that, my airdrop seemed to be working just fine.

I hope this helped everyone who was experiencing this same problem as I.

I called Apple for help (iMessage and handoff don't work), the Apple guy told me to press "command"+"option"+"P"+"R" till 6 chime sound, and miraculously the handoff is back (but iMessage issue still...)

I've tried several solutions to get Airdrop working - the one that worked for me was to turn off bluetooth and Wifi multiple times on both my Macbook Pro and iPhone. After two or three cycles, my airdrop function was restored.

(OSX El Capitan, IOS 9.1)

excellent. this worked for me - thanks so much! i'm on a mac mini, using a bluetooth mouse, so was about to go get my old mouse out of storage so i could turn off bluetooth, but decided to delete the file com.apple.Bluetooth.plist from the system folder as directed, but WITHOUT TURNING BLUETOOTH OFF... handoff works great now between iPod touch and man mini.

it was working quickly and accurately from mac to iPod, but it wasn't working at all from iPod to mac, although it use to with yosemite. so now this is great, it's more useful to go from iPod to mac for me most of the time, and now it's fast and flawless. best wishes everyone.

After 2 months of trying every troubleshooting method mentioned in this thread, nothing had worked.

That is until today, when I downloaded and installed the 10.11.2 patch for El Capitan from the App Store, which mentions that it "improves reliability of Handoff and Airdrop"

I finally have these two functionalities back!

Did you do anything special to kick start the behavior? I still do not see the thing working after it worked great on Yosemite.

Reversion is futile (not possible,) after my Photo Library update. That is the ONE feature barrier. Sad...

I tried what other have tried:

- Turn of BT

- Delete BT and some other system preferences

- Shut down

- SMC Reset

- 5 "Holy Maries" - parameter resets

Carefull check of the network options (same WiFI)

All my other systems work with handoff, but still nothing on my troubled Mac Pro.

I solve problem, try to delete ur old "com.apple.Bluetooth.plist" and copy with this new one. it worked for me!

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B5pQoB17O34rYWMxQzk2a3NDMWM

I solve problem, try to delete ur old "com.apple.Bluetooth.plist" and copy with this new one. it worked for me!

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B5pQoB17O34rYWMxQzk2a3NDMWM

how did you delete the com.apple.Bluetooth.plist ? it is locked file on my el capitan and no way to delete it.

U just enter your password and delete the file. i found something else here is a screenshot make sure that the bluetooth sharing is turned on, copy and paste new Bluetooth.plist and restart ur mac, after that everything just works fine. I been testing it for couple of hours, and everything works perfect.