Airdrop Mac To Iphone Declined

No messages are being received by the recipient or any actions being made.
Airdrop mac to iphone declined. Click on the finder icon located in the dock of your mac. Macbook pro introduced in late 2008 or later excluding the macbook pro 17 inch late 2008 macbook air introduced in late 2010 or later. Just make sure that both devices are signed in with the same apple id. Press and hold the section that displays the airplane mode wireless cellular and bluetooth icons to expand the section.
I d be happy to help. Tap airdrop to turn it on. Once your mac and iphone are setup to use airdrop it becomes really easy to transfer files photos videos and other data from mac to iphone. Go to the upper right corner of the screen and swipe down.
Airdrop on my 8mth old imac has stopped sending docs through airdrop. Make sure that your devices can receive airdrop requests. In the finder windows click on airdrop option located in the left pane. Mac from 2012 or later excluding the mid 2012 mac pro using os x yosemite or later.
Airplane mode is on when. To find out choose apple menu about this mac. Airdrop is temperamental at the best of times so if your mac is running an outdated version of macos and you re trying to send files to your brand new iphone 11 that might be the problem. It gets automatically declined.
Iphone ipad or ipod touch using ios 7 or later. Thanks for visiting the apple support communities. Each mac was introduced in 2012 or later excluding the 2012 mac pro and is using os x yosemite or later. First back up your mac with time machine and then head to system preferences software update and install all available updates.
How to adjust airdrop settings to choose who can see your device and send you content in airdrop. Each iphone ipad or ipod touch is using ios 7 or later with personal hotspot turned off. Open control center on the iphone. It can receive ok but when trying to send it comes back with a message saying recipient has declined the request.
From your post i understand that you are having trouble with airdrop. Just open control centre and tap on the airplane icon and then tap on it again. Choose go airdrop from the menu bar in the finder then make sure that airdrop is turned on. Transfer files from mac to iphone using airdrop.
Airdrop between macs both computers must be at least. Check the allow me to be discovered by setting at the bottom of the airdrop window. You could skip the above two steps and just turn airplane mode on and off on your iphone.