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I noticed that after updating to Sequoia, AirDrop has disappeared from the Finder sidebar. If I try to add it back from the settings, it appears for a fraction of a second, then the checkbox deselects itself again. If I navigate to AirDrop from the Go menu, all appears normal and it works correctly so I am unsure why this is happening
MacBook Pro 14″, macOS 15.0
Oh, and just one more thing I forgot to say: the only action I found to solve this temporarily, is to force the finder's restart. Then, I can be able to add the airdrop into finder's favorites.
I hope we can see some update on this issue. Thanks again.
Hello my friends,
Please, allow me to share something I discovered.
After trying several actions, such as deleting the "com.apple.finder.plist" file, and restarting the Mac to no avail, I simply made an OS Sequoia boot disk and did a clean install on my Mac. After the boot disk was ready, I erased all the contents of the SSD and did a new installation. Completely. And then, problem solved.
All Finder options can now be customized without problems, including AirDrop.
I hope this solution helps other colleagues.
Thanks everyone.
I think I found the reason of AirDrop not staying on sidebar!
I erased and reset Sequoia and initially AirDrop stayed on sidebar so I started installing apps and adding favorites to the sidebar, I only added "Picture" and my user folder. The next morning AirDrop disappears from the sidebar again!
I uninstalled the last app I put on and there was no change. So I unchecked the 2 favorites I added and, viola, AirDrop stayed on sidebar.
My guess is for some reasons there's a "maximum" amount of favorites on the sidebar with AirDrop added.
I just got a new Mac Mini M4 pro. with 15.1 OS. I now have the same issue. Force quitting Finder lets me put Airdrop back but at the next startup(boot) it goes away. I submitted a bug report to Apple.
Clean install of Sequoia 15.1, and immediately the issues started as described in the original poster. Only thing that corrects it a force quit of Finder. Also a desktop and & dock system setting that I turned on always turns off on a reboot and requires me to reset it.
Just tested the Airdrop issue on an Intel Mac and no issue. Then tested on two M1 silicon Macs and both have the issue. This may be related to Sequoia only with Silicon Macs. Hope others can comment if this is the case.
Spouse just bought a M3 MacBook Air with factory installed Sequoia 15.1. She also is experiencing the identical problems with AirDrop on the Finder sidebar that I, and others have noted here. Force/quit of Finder corrects it, but a reboot results in the same problem.
Just a small update from me - this was fixed for several weeks until I decided to turn on an old iPad running iPad OS 17. I soon noticed that AirDrop had disappeared again and only returned after I turned the iPad off and rebooted the Mac. This pretty much confirms to me that this is some kind of conflict with older devices
I had the same problem - the solution - turn completely off all you Apple devises: iPhone, tablet, imac or
whatever Mac devise you own then restart your Mac Mini M4 now you will be able to add airdrop to finder setting,
restart all you Mac devises.
Hope this help.
Same - MacBook Pro, brand new, 16" M4 48 MB ram....
The shutdown all other Macs, iPhones, iPads, etc... does not work.
Only thing that works is to Force kill Finder, add in sidebar.
However, this is never persistent over a restart or shutdown/reboot.
My Mac-mini with an M2 never does/ never has experienced this bug.
Ok thanks. I'll have to give that a go in a few days when I'm not using the machine for work!
I had the exact same issue but for me once I rebooted it was OK.
Thanks, just worked for me.
See if you reduce your "favorites" down to 6, then force quit Finder, restart the computer, and then add Airdrop back. Does it still go away?
Force quit lets you add it back in but then disappears next time you boot the Mac. If you never turn your Mac off or need to reboot then no issue. Must be some bug.
Mine is permanently fixed since I restarted one while my iPhone was switched off.
Cannot add AirDrop to Finder sidebar in Sequoia
