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You are on the right track - powering off bluetooth and wifi, restarting both devices, powering on bluetooth and WiFi and then retesting. That will show all the IPv6 network connections and you can run sudo tcpdump -i awdl0 to trace the network traffic that is used to transfer files over AirDrop. If you see the other device, but the transfer is slow or fails, you can track that on the Mac side: netstat -nr | grep awdl0 The initial discovery of devices happens over bluetooth - so if you don't see other devices - look for bluetooth interference or issues with that hardware.
#AIRDROP MAC TO IPHONE EL CAPITAN SOFTWARE#
Specifically - when you have hotspot enabled on iOS - AriDrop doesn't work.Īdditionally, if you have any internet security, firewall, vpn software installed, that can cause problems on the Mac side. I don't see a good troubleshooting article from Apple - but this has some hints: I also wouldn't reinstall unless you feel that's needed for another issue. So, super small sample size, but based on that it seems like iOS 11 is the problem. revert back to Yosemite is the best solution for me.using OS X internet Recovery is the best scenario because Yosemite is no longer in Mac App Store (region Indonesia). But, MBA El Capitan couldnt see my iphones and my iphones couldnt see my MBA El Capitan. iPhone 6+ updated to iOS 11 can only AirDrop to other iOS 11 phones, but not to El Capitan or High Sierra computers. MBA Yosemite with iphone 6 iOS 9.0.1 and iphone 5s iOS 7.1 working. iPhone 6+ on iOS 10.whatever could AirDrop to everything. I would not expect AirDrop to work in SafeMode as most kernel extensions and features are hobbled / disabled. iPhone 6SE on iOS 10.whatever could AirDrop to everything.