Hi Lorie, Airdrop uses Bluetooth to do its thing, so bluetooth has to be enabled on both your Mac and your iPhone. Go to Finder. Then, press Command+Shift+R, and this will open the Airdrop window. VO to the bottom where it says “allow me to be discovered by”. There’s a popup with choices of No one, Contacts or everyone. Once you make that choice, your Mac can be seen by other devices close to it, like your iPhone. So, if you wanted to, say, send a photo to your Mac from your iPhone, you find the photo in question, open it, and then VO to the Share button and double tap it. One of the share options will be Airdrop. When you double-tap Airdrop, your Mac should come up on the list of devices. Double tap on the Mac, and your Mac will give you an alert saying that it’s waiting to receive something from your iPhone. You indicate where you want the photo to go, I usually put them into my Downloads folder, accept the request, and it will be transferred. I hope I’ve not missed anything, but hopefully this will at least point you in the right direction.
Pete De Vasto > On Aug 10, 2020, at 12:46 PM, Lorie McCloud <lorice...@gmail.com> wrote: > > how do you prepare your Mac to receive airdrop from say, your phone? also, > how do you use your Mac to send something via airdrop? > > thanks. > Lorie > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries > list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if > you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or > moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. You can reach mark at: > mk...@ucla.edu and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at > caraqu...@caraquinn.com > > The archives for this list can be searched at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/macvisionaries/1939F211-C0AE-43EE-8CCD-A75A48E961E4%40gmail.com. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. You can reach mark at: mk...@ucla.edu and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/macvisionaries/B3A69381-DDBB-4CD2-A48D-AD0B7F6CB66B%40gmail.com.
