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AirDrop. . . .has it EVER worked for anyone?

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Hey everyone,

I had a 5S, and old MacBook Pro and Airdrop never worked - I always assumed it was just something you needed a new device for or something.

Anywho - a new Retina MacBook, brand new iPhone 6S - turn on Bluetooth on both devices. . .set airdrop to everyone - yet the phone won't see the MacBook, and the MacBook won't see the phone.

Has anyone ever got this feature to work?!

Paired them - but get the error 'make sure it's in range and turned on'. They're less than 5cm apart :D Disaster.
 
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It used to work with my iPhone and iPad but recently I haven't been able to get it to work no matter what I do. Steve Jobs wouldn't have let this **** slide.
 
I know, right?! Two brand new devices costing pretty much £2000 - and yet a basic bluetooth technology won't work between them :S
 
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Okay then I'll just accept that it's broken. Annoying that I'll have to use a cable to sync photos lol. A lot of hassle considering to use use an adapter as well for my MacBook
 
Does anyone know why it takes so long for contacts to show up in AirDrop? It's frustrating, because if you want to drag a file there from somewhere else, you have to wait forever for someone to show up, and you can't drop the file there in the meantime. I don't understand why there's such a delay. It does work well for me other than that one problem. I'm really surprised how fast it is.
 
Works between my iPhone and rMBP, haven't tried the other devices.

Just open Airdrop in finder on the Mac, and on your phone, just choose whatever it is you want to share and tap the share-button and then the Airdrop icon on the phone. After a while the computer name will show up instead of the icon and you just push it and boom you're done. Always works for me, granted it's a little slow.
 
Works between my iPhone 6 and my wife's iPhone 5, and between two iPad Airs, but I've never been able to get it to work between Macs or between iOS devices and Macs. And I've spent HOURS making sure everything is set up as Apple instructs.
 
I have no issues sending files from my macbook to my iPhone, but my iPhone doesn't detect that my macbook exists. This occurs whether I'm on everyone or contacts only..

Thoughts?
 
Works most of time between my 2012 rMBP 13" and my iPhone 5/6+. Sporadically the rMBP will not see the iPhone. I just toggle network connections on/ off and it works.
 
Sometimes selecting the option to connect to an older Mac works. By older Mac, I mean 2012 MBP and 2012 Mac Mini and my 2015 MBP.
 
It works the first time I try it, but not after that. If I try to immediately send a different file or picture, it doesn't work.
 
Works most of the time for me between various iOS devices. I have the most problems with my wife's iPhone 5c.
 
Worked since 5s and Mavericks. Turn on WiFi also, that may help. If not, try going to the left pane of Finder, and click on Air Drop to see if it sees your phone. If not, turn off and on WiFi and Bluetooth on the phone and see.
 
I'm not sure about AirDrop, but that Wi-Fi bug that has plagued iOS since version 8.0 is still there. I have to turn Wi-Fi on and off sometimes when the signal gets stuck, making websites never load until I toggle the switch :mad::(
 
Airdrop works all the time between the Macs I have acces to, sometimes between diffrent iPhones and rarely between the Macs and the iPhones.
 
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