Continuity Camera not working with my iPhone 6 Plus

Had this same issue. iPad Pro worked like a champ... iPhone X timed out. Here's what I finally did to get it working.

Did not work (alone)

Sign in/out of Apple ID account on Mac and iPhone

Use same (correct) Apple ID

Delete bluetooth plist

turn bluetooth and wifi on/off

Two-factor authentication on

Power cycled everything

What did work

I logged into Apple ID to check that two-factor was indeed on and noticed in connected devices that my iPhone name was not the normal name I had given it in the past. It had defaulted back to just "iPhone". Which is not how I name my devices and was not what my MacBook Pro had identified with the phone as previous to iOS 12. My guess is upgrading to iOS 12 made the change. (my Apple Pay and Apple Cash had also been removed)

Once I change my iPhone name back to what I normally had named it and power cycled everything just to make sure the system got that change. It worked. Name shown here in blue.

Gareth Morris1 wrote:

I have an iMac working with the new Mojave OSX. My iPhone is on iOS12. I have been trying to use the new Continuity Camera facility without success. Briefly I have both on the same WiFi network and Bluetooth is enabled and working on both devices i.e. connected on my iPhone and Connected to my Network on my iMac. Handoff is enabled on both devices. When I try to import from Pages on my iMac by selecting my iPhone the Camera App does not open on my iPhone. Eventually it just times out. What makes it strange is that using the exact same setup with my iPad works perfectly.

Can anyone explain or suggest a way forward? Many thanks for any help.

Are you using or enabled 2 factor authentication Use Continuity Camera on your Mac - Apple Support

Same with me. My iPad is working no problem - it's only my iPhone that is getting the Time Out error. I do notice when I select iPad it automatically switches to the camera and when I take the photo it says Use Photo.

Solved for me. It was a pretty long workaround:

Switching wifi on and off/bluetooth on and off - no luck

I tried to sign out of iCloud on my iPhone and then back in still no luck.

I made sure I have a backup on iCloud, then went to settings>general>reset>reset all content and settings which eventually erased the entire phone, I then downloaded my backup and voila! continuity camera now works like a charm, but this entire process took like 40 minutes.

Good luck to everyone!

I have an iPad Pro 10" and an iPhone 7 Plus, both running iOS 12 GM installed a couple days after release. What I'm seeing is that the iPad Pro is always available to the continuity camera feature, but the iPhone appears sometimes, then disappears the next time, even when accessing the iPhone camera in back-to-back imports. Sometimes after a few minutes wait, the iPhone camera once again shows up. Sad to say, this features doesn't quite look like a feature one can rely on, it's still kind of a bug. 😠

Excellent - thank you for sharing your work. Your steps were the only way I could get my iPhone 8+ to work. iPad Air worked all along but the iPhone did not - seems to be systemic. Not sure why. But works now

Follow the procedure by Derek above:

1) Sign in/out of Apple ID account on BOTH Mac and iPhone

- make sure you use the same (correct) Apple ID on both devices

2) Delete all the bluetooth items listed on both your Mac and iPhone (deselect each item)

3) turn bluetooth and wifi on/off on BOTH your Mac and iPhone

4) if you use iCloud / Apple Two-factor authentication for log-in, configure it on both your Mac and iPhone

5) Power cycled (restart) BOTH your Mac and iPhone

I'm having the same issue! Running Mojave on MacBook Pro 15" 2017 with Touch Bar and iPhone X running iOS 12. I get the same message: "could not import photo: Device timed out"

Try turning two factor off and see if that helps? You can enable again if it doesn’t change anything. Good luck.

My iPad Pro 9.7" works well on continuity camera, however it doesn't work with my iPhone XS Max, it can't auto open camera app on iPhone or time-out. So disappointing.