Ipad Air 5

Thank you both for your replies. I am enjoying getting acquainted with my new iPad air but having trouble understanding why airdrop is only working when I select the option of everyone and not on the contacts only. I don't want to use iCloud for storing photos so have the sync functions turned off. I only want to airdrop certain photos I select from my iPhone to airdrop to my iPad. So when I select a photo on my phone I know to tap the share button and then select airdrop which only has a little red number 1 showing it detects another device nearby when I have the 'everyone' setting on. The iPad shows with my name iPad (2) with contacts only setting but when it is on 'everyone' it shows up again under heading of 'other people'. Could this mean my new iPad is not connected to my account ? not sure what to try in order to be able to use with the contacts only setting, so I suppose the iPad is not recognized as a contact on my iPhone .....

me again sorry, so in my lunch break i went to the local Optus store and Mymac store and sounds like it I can have airdrop work with the 'everyone for 10 minutes' setting then just do that and not worry about why airdrop doesn't work when I select 'Contact Only'. I only wondered if there was an issue I could fix but not to worry at least something works.

Thanks Rudegar, good to know but this update is not showing as available to install on my ipad as yet. I currently have OS 16.5.1 . Do we know when to expect the new update you mention ?