I upgraded my IOS across devices and now I can't seem to get Airdrop to work. Before anyone goes there, they are both on the same IOS, Wifi is enabled, Bluetooth is enabled, the firewall is off.
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Original Title: IOS 26 and Airdrop
iPhone 15 Pro Max, iOS 26
Upgraded and sending was working from ios26, fix was silly, we had Airdrop receive turned off. Changed to "Contacts" and it's working.
Wonder if "Off" is default and the Settings Control Panel fails to update the bits so it doesn't work for some phones.
Upgraded and sending was working from ios26, fix was silly, we had Airdrop receive turned off. Changed to "Contacts" and it's working.
Wonder if "Off" is default and the Settings Control Panel fails to update the bits so it doesn't work for some phones.
Update to iOS 26.0.1 fixes Airdrop issues
[iPhone 13]
If the issue is only with/from/to one device, try to change the name of that device in Settings > General About > Name.
For me, exchanging contacts again by placing the tops of the iPhones near (not exchanging files yet) did the trick… if the contacts duplicate, just link the new contact to the main one… this should enable contact sharing again
Bonjour advertising must be enabled for airdrop to work. This fixed it for me.
I am also having problem with AirDrop after upgrading to iOS 26. I tried sending files to another iPhone that's on iOS 18, and also to my Mac that's on macOS 26. Both having very poor experience. The photos are technically sending but they're taking forever! I am just trying to send around 19 photos, and they're taking literally 15 minutes to send.
I can also confirm the loss of Airdrop after upgrading to iOS 26 on iPhone 16 Pro and iPad Pro 2021. This is a feature I use regularly. Worked fine with the betas of iOS 26 on iPhone 16 Pro to iPad Pro running iOS 18 (didn’t do ios 26 betas on iPad). I’ve tried for 20+ minutes to play with all of the settings on both devices turning the AirDrop feature off and on and setting it to everyone for 10 minutes on both devices, making sure I’m connected to the same Wi-Fi network and making sure that Bluetooth is on for both devices, powering both devices off and back in, and still can’t get it to work. I really need a solution to this ASAP.
Same here. Can’t even engage receive airdrop let alone send from my iphone 12 mini. The phone is a whole bunch of really bad stuff, like shutting itself off, won’t turn on when the screen is touched (very, very slow, like 10 seconds), it was great the first week but past few days have been *horrible*.
I. Facing the same issue. Can't send to my mac or iPad.
facing same issue when ever i try sending files from my iphone to ipad
After updating my iPhone 13 to version 26.0, I can no longer use AirDrop. Could this be due to incompatibility between different iPhone versions (iOS 18 and iOS 26)?
Same issue after updating to iOS 26. Fine prior.
I cannot even switch airdrop on, I have iPhone 16 pro.
Up dating to 26.0.1 did NOT fix it for me
AirDrop not working after iOS 26 upgrade on iPhone
