AirDrop stopped working on my iPhone 6 Plus

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AirDrop stopped working on my iPhone 6 Plus

A few hours ago, I upgraded the OS of my iPhone 6 Plus to IOS 9.0.2. Ever since, neither my iMac (using El Capitan) nor my MacBook Air (using Yosemite) discovers my iPhone 6, when I attempt to use AirDrop. I would appreciate it if someone could please help me to restore AirDrop to my iPhone. Please note that I checked to be sure that:

AirDrop on all three devices is on and set up to be discovered by everyone,
all three devices are connected to WiFi,
Bluetooth on my iPhone is turned on,
Airdrop between my iPhone and my iMac (I had previously never tried it between my iPhone and my MacBook Air) worked perfectly well, before I upgraded the iPhone's iOS,
AirDrop currently works perfectly well between my two Macs.

Thank you for your help.

iPhone 6 Plus, iOS 9.0.2

Posted on Oct 4, 2015 1:41 AM

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Answer 1

Oct 5, 2015 1:50 PM in response to gblmgmt

Same problem. it works in my iPad Air 2 and iPhone 5, doesn't work on iPhone 6..

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Answer 2

sberman

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Oct 5, 2015 2:04 PM in response to gblmgmt

You have not told us specifically the age of your Mac(s). Only specific Macs support AirDrop between Mac and iOS, even with El Capitan (or Yosemite) and iOS 9.

Here's the list:

The above comes from: OS X El Capitan: supported devices for Handoff, Instant Hotspot, Phone Calling, SMS, and AirDrop

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Answer 3

Dogcow-Moof

Level 8

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Oct 5, 2015 2:07 PM in response to gblmgmt

Note that if you have a Mac on which AirDrop is supported, you will need to enable Bluetooth on the Mac and enable AirDrop from Finder -> Go -> AirDrop.

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