AirDrop to different devices instead to "contact"

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AirDrop to different devices instead to "contact"

Hi Apple Community

My friend and I both have two iOS devices. She uses her Apple ID on her devices, I use my Apple ID on my two devices. Now we'd like to share photos. When she wants to send her photos to my iPad, she can only see my profile/me as a person in the Airdrop menu, but she can't choose the device (my iPhone vs. my iPad). Same problem the other way round: I can see her as a contact, but I can't choose to which of her two devices I want to send the photos.

Why not? Are there any system preferences to change this? Any ideas?

Thanks for your help!

iPad Pro, iOS 13

Posted on Jan 16, 2020 1:05 PM

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Answer 1

mokiboki

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Jan 16, 2020 3:45 PM in response to Marc_Zurich

That’s odd. I suppose if you need the file on the other device she could airdrop to your phone, and you could airdrop it from your phone to your iPad. and vice versa. you could also try only having the iPad unlocked.

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Marc_Zurich Author

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Jan 16, 2020 1:40 PM in response to mokiboki

Hi mokiboki

That's what I expected, as far as my Apple experience goes. But: Even when airdrop is turned on on both devices and both devices are unlocked, the request gets always to the same device (her iPhone 11 instead of iPhone SE, my iPhone 6s Plus instead of iPad 10.5").

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mokiboki

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Jan 16, 2020 1:33 PM in response to Marc_Zurich

Hi,

She just needs to tap your contact. If your devices both have airdrop turned on and are unlocked, you will get the request on both devices and can accept from whichever one you want.

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AirDrop to different devices instead to "contact"

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