Can’t find airdrops between my iPhone and iPad

Goto airdrop settings from the quick actions by swiping down and press-hold the wifi & bluetooth tile.

In there, try changing the Airdrop share from Contacts only to Everyone.

This was a quick workaround. The permanent and more secure solution would be to make sure:

• either both the iPad and iPhone uses the same iCloud account
• or add the iCloud email signed in to the iPad as a contact in your iPhone and vice versa. That way, you can use the option 'Contacts Only' which is more secure.