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AirDrop stops working on Mac

I have my new Mac Apple M1 Pro running Ventura 13.1 and AirDrop doesn't work. I have tried all possible suggestions online with no vain. AirDrop's setting is set to receive from Everyone. I'm able to send from my Mac to my iPhone but gets stuck in "Waiting" when I try to send from iPhone to this Mac. Here are what I did:


1) Upgrade both my phone and Mac to the latest and greatest that Apple has: NOT WORKING

2) Reset bluetooth and wifi: NOT WORKING

3) Reset then reboot both phone and Mac: NOT WORKING

4) Go with nuclear option (to delete bluetooth .plist under /Library/Preferences): NOT WORKING

5) There's no adware, firewall (disabled), content restriction (disabled), etc. on my Mac.

6) Both iPhone and Mac are using the same Apple ID account



I simply can't make this work and it drives me nut. Apple Support please help.

MacBook Pro 15″, OS X 10.11

Posted on Jan 11, 2023 1:01 PM

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Posted on Mar 18, 2023 8:32 AM

Try NVRAM reset. That worked for me.

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Jan 11, 2023 4:30 PM in response to espressog74

FYI, Apple is not here on these forums, we are just other regular users such as yourself volunteering our time to assist other people. If you want to have Apple help you, then you need to use the Support link to chat with official Apple tech support:

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Try booting the Mac into Safe Mode to see if it makes a difference. If this works, then you most likely have some third party software installed which is interfering with the normal operation of macOS. Usual culprits are anti-virus apps, cleaning/optimizer apps, and third party security software...none of which are needed on a Mac.



AirDrop stops working on Mac

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