You can make a difference in the Apple Support Community!
When you sign up with your Apple Account, you can provide valuable feedback to other community members by upvoting helpful replies and User Tips.
When you sign up with your Apple Account, you can provide valuable feedback to other community members by upvoting helpful replies and User Tips.
Hi,
I'm trying to transfer some pics from my iPhone X to my MacBook Pro Retina 2012, it used to work.
Now, I can se the MBP from the iPhone AirDrop share panel but when I select it I get a "Refused".
Airdrop share from my iPhone X to another iPhone works seamlessly, the problem see
I tried to disable and re-enable airdrop on both iPhone and MBP but still not work
Please help.
Regards
Ivan
MacBook Pro with Retina display, macOS High Sierra (10.13.6)
Apple: Stop relying on (rightfully clueless) community to solve issues with your tech. Have someone qualified follow & respond to matters like this. I came here looking for answers to this problem & once again discover the blind leading the blind....
Apple: Stop relying on (rightfully clueless) community to solve issues with your tech. Have someone qualified follow & respond to matters like this. I came here looking for answers to this problem & once again discover the blind leading the blind....
If you can't see the other device in AirDrop
If a device doesn't appear as an AirDrop recipient, make sure that both devices have Wi-Fi and Bluetooth turned on and are within 30 feet (9 meters) of each other. If that doesn't help, check these settings on your Mac or iOS device.
On Mac:
- Choose Go > AirDrop from the menu bar in the Finder, then make sure that AirDrop is turned on.
- Check the ”Allow me to be discovered by” setting at the bottom of the AirDrop window. When AirDrop is set to receive content from Contacts Only, both devices must be signed in to iCloud, and the email address or phone number associated with the sender's Apple ID must be in the Contacts app of your Mac.
- If the Mac is from 2012 or earlier, click “Don't see who you're looking for?” in the AirDrop window or sharing sheet of the sharing Mac. Then click “Search for an Older Mac.”
- If the receiving Mac is using OS X Mavericks or earlier, make sure that an AirDrop window is open on that Mac: choose Go > AirDrop from the menu bar in the Finder.
- Make sure that “Block all incoming connections” is turned off in Security & Privacy preferences of the receiving Mac.
On iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch:
- Check the AirDrop setting in Control Center. When AirDrop is set to receive content from Contacts Only, both devices must be signed in to iCloud, and the email address or phone number associated with the sender's Apple ID must be in the Contacts app of your iOS device.
- Make sure that Personal Hotspot is turned off in Settings > Cellular of the receiving iOS device.
Hello!
Before iOS 12 i had no problem Airdropping between my iPad Pro and my iPhone 7plus.
Suddenly each device shows the other as a generic iPhone and iPad without my name, opposed to seeing my wife's devices with HerName iPad, HerName iPhone.
When attempting an airdrop between either, both devices show the other as already declined when trying to airdrop a photo. I have no 'files' to try to airdrop, only photos are important. Neither device receives the popup to accept or decline.
I can airdrop and receive on both devices from my wife's iPhone and iPad as well with no problem, as well as my iMAC Pro.
I have signed in and out of iCloud, restarted, forced shutdown, turned WiFi on and off, Bluetooth on and off, checked for Airplane mode, reset my household Wifi, checked for being on same WiFi channel, checked contacts, everyone settings, Do not disturb settings, no personal hotspots on....
Help!
Signed out of iCloud (took a minute to upload all my stuff to cloud) and then signed into iCloud on my iPad - solved the situation for me. Before that, airdrop was aoutomatically declined between my iPad and iPhone, both running iOS 12.1. Thank you for the hints!
Hi I_rina, thank you for your response.
I checked all the stuff in the link you provided and it didn't help.
On my account, which is linked to the same iCloud account than the iPhone I can send from the iPhone to the MBP, but I can't from MBP to iPhone. I tried image and PDF.
When logged in to MBP with my wife's account I am able to send and receive photo to my iPhone.
Please help 😟
😁
I have read this but I have a question. A warning comes up when you go to signout of iCloud that says “Signing out of your iCloud account will disable Apple Pay and will remove your cards. Photo in iCloud Photos and Photo Stream photos stored in iCloud will be removed from this iPhone.”
When you sign in to iCloud (after signing out to correct the airdrop problem), are your photos and data reloaded onto the phone, iPad, etc.?
Why does my MacBook Pro automatically refuse to accept a file through airdrop from my Mac? I've already set my MacBook Pro to accept from everyone & checked that privacy settings are not blocking this request. This has been working, just not now.
The same is happening to me. My phone and my iPad won’t receive airdrop between them since yesterday
But they accept from other pe
Anubody out there have a solition?
I am experiencing the same...cannot airdrop between iPhone and iPad. I’ve tried everything and have come up empty....anyone found a Solution yet?
Signing out of iCloud and then back in solved it for me. I didn’t have to sign out/in on all my devices, just my iPad, but it seems to have solved the issue across everything. Good luck!
Signing out of iCloud and then back in again on my iPad seems to have solved the issue for me. Good luck!
Thanks---did the trick for me as well!
Thanks---Worked for me as well
Airdrop automatically declined
