I knew sms relay was turned off but i thought handoff was still supposed to work. It's weird that it half works for messages though.
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Thanks for the confirmation. Now I know it's not me and I can't stop playing with it trying to get it to work
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Handing off webpages and pictures from iPhone to iPad or Mac works. I can do it with my phone and iPad Air. I can send and receive calls on all three devices. What i can no longer do, is the SMS relay, which isn't a big deal.
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If you are not using Yosemite DP or PB, you won't be able to use any of the enabled features of Yosemite and iOS 8.
For me, handoff works with Safari, but not with Pages or Numbers (between my 5S and 4th gen iPad). It's possible that you need to have iCloud Drive enabled (I don't).
Handoff works for me on my 2013 MBAir and iPad Air for the most part. The most frustrating part for me at this point is when I hand a message off, it doesn't hand off what I've actually typed on the device I'm switching from. It just takes me to the thread I was typing in, but with a blank text field so I have to start from scratch.
Anyone else?
Anyone else?
Just read that too which is lame because doesn't the iPad 3 have bluetooth le? I guess Apple is trying to make me upgrade by not supporting what I consider one of ios 8 most attractive features.
3rd one doesn´t support it. Something about it having the right BT, but wrong Wifi chip.
Maybe with a jailbroken one, someone could enable it like AirDrop?
Edit: Didn´t see you posted again.
Yes, I too found this out this morning. Handoff does not work on the public beta of Yosemite. Guess we'll be waiting until October for those features and SMS continuity!
I can confirm that Handoff does indeed work with Yosemite public beta. I was just sat here and my phone and iPad reacted to what I was doing on my MacBook(!!). It was seemingly triggered by disconnecting from Wifi on my MacBook Pro and reconnecting. Seems to be working pretty reliably now. Awesome!
I was a bit confused about what Continuity was using: Bluetooth, no Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, Wi-Fi + same network, no Wi-Fi
So I tried all the combinations, and made a short video to explain it.
I see some people saying they go to the right app, but the text is not transferred, like it should be in Mail for example. For this, Bluetooth is not enough, Wi-Fi is also required (although the two devices don't need to be on a common network).
So I tried all the combinations, and made a short video to explain it.
I see some people saying they go to the right app, but the text is not transferred, like it should be in Mail for example. For this, Bluetooth is not enough, Wi-Fi is also required (although the two devices don't need to be on a common network).
No… I thought the update for all three would bring Continuity compatibility, but apparently it didn't.
It will start to work with more apps as devs use the Apis.
NYT have always been know for trying to be on top of this stuff.
Those of you unable to get handoff working in Mail for example, you need to keep your partly composed email OPEN for it to handoff to your next device.
If you part-compose an email and then return to the homescreen it will not handoff to your other device.
To enable handoff you may need to turn it off and on in settings too.
If you part-compose an email and then return to the homescreen it will not handoff to your other device.
To enable handoff you may need to turn it off and on in settings too.
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