I'm running iOS 9.0.1 and using the 10.11 GM and cannot get airdrop to work between my iOS device and OSX.
I've spent days trying to troubleshoot this issue.
I've got a Macbook Air (2014) (currently El Capitan GM) and an iPhone 6 (9.0.1).
My wife has another iPhone 6 (iOS 8.4)
I've tried for days to get airdrop to work and it's simply not working from OS X to iOS.
It's so frustrating. I've had it work before in the past, but never reliably.
Anyway,
- iOS to iOS airdrop works between the two iPhones (8.4 to 9.0.1) and vice versa. No problem every time - either way.
- I've followed every article I can find, from voodoo like 'pairing' my iPhone to my Mac, all the way to having the firewall disabled or enabled, to having bluetooth preferences open to SMB sharing being enable to AFP sharing on or off, such nonsense but I tried...
For a while I was playing with trashing various BT preferences/network prefs, but since the 3 complete clean installs I'm gonna guess prefs have nothing to do with it. iCloud signed in and out 10 times, bluetooth and wifi ON OFF ON OFF.. it's so annoying.
The best bit is Continuity/Handoff works perfectly between my phone and mac. including text message forwarding, making calls from the Mac, apps like mail and messages show in the dock when I'm writing messages... even the instant hotspot feature works, browsing in safari show in the bottom of multitasking on iOS - all of it...
Just not airdrop from the mac to iOS or iOS to the mac. The iPhone/Mac doesn't show up on each other.
My wife's iPhone doesn't see the mac either, nor can the mac see hers...
In addition to the above I have been hyper careful to ensure all routers are open to bonjour doing its thing, I'm even using an Airport Extreme.
I'm ensuring the iPhones are set to 'everybody' visibility as is the mac.
EVERY single thing I can think of I've done, every permutation of possible interaction between the devices i've facilitated. I've even given the mac and iPhone over an hour to 'find' each other.
What am I missing?
Thanks, John
Knolan, that is indeed a useful clarification and it seems fairly conclusive that the issue is either AppleID related or fundamental to El Capitan on particular hardware - both bugs that Apple should take an interest in.
We were alerted earlier this evening that these forums are about to be taken down now that El Capitan is no longer pre-release, so I suggest you keep a local record of your posts and be aware of the probable need to carry the conversation back to your Reddit thread.
-Max