Cannot get air drop to find contact, does nothing, both phones are iphone 5 running ios 7.0.3 air drop will not find each other on either phone, both phones set to everyone
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Air drop not working
- Thread starter stuey12345
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uh yea. airdrop transmits over wifi and bluetooth and should activate both for it to work when you turn airdop on.
I have a friend that couldn't get his airdrop to work. I had mine on everyone with wifi and Bluetooth on. I checked his iPhone and it was the same way. I couldn't send him anything. I tried with another friend in the same room and it worked perfectly. I never did figure out what was wrong...
The other party need to activate airdrop as well and select who can view them. It's not merely just activating wifi and bluetooth
Once it's set to how it's suppose to, it takes about 5 seconds for the other party's name to show up under the Airdrop section..
Make sure the contact has correct itunes email address for both. Had this problem with me and my wife, she had added an extra letter in my email address. Fixed it and we connect every time now within seconds. Ridiculous on Apples part, but has to be email associated with iTunes.
That's only for "Contacts Only". OP mentioned the phones were set to "Everyone".