Why won’t my iPhone 5s airdrop?

When I tried to airdrop a few photos from my iPhone 5s (IOS 11.2.5) to my iPad it came up with a not saying ‘UNABLE TO SHARE there was an error whilst preparing to share. Please try again later’. This has never happened before. I’ve never seen this happen on anyone else’s devise. How could I fix this. Thank you.

iPhone 5s, iOS 11.2.5

Posted on Feb 12, 2018 4:58 AM

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Eric Root

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Feb 12, 2018 9:32 AM in response to Gardinercaz

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