How To Receive Airdrop On Macbook

On the other hand if you are enabling it on iphone then go to settings general airdrop and select your option.

How to receive airdrop on macbook. This option is easily opened on your macbook. Choose airdrop from the sharing options listed. Do not forget to prepare the other nearby device to receive airdrop files you can follow my first tutorial in order to do that if it s an ios device. Choose a recipient from the airdrop sheet.

At the bottom of your screen you can click on allow me to be discovered by and toggle it to no one contacts only or everyone. Open up your finder and from the top menu click on the go tab. Now from the mac open a finder window and choose airdrop from the sidebar or alternatively pull down the go menu and choose airdrop on the mac check the allow me to be discovered by section so that it says either everyone or contacts only keep this finder window open as it enables airdrop. These next steps will walk you through the easy process of turning on airdrop on a macbook pro.

Open the file that you want to send then click share button in the app window. Or control click the file in the finder then choose share from. In the go tab go down the menu a bit and click on airdrop. An airdrop finder window will open.

Airdrop from the menu bar at the top of your screen. At the bottom of your screen you can click on allow me to be discovered by and toggle it. An airdrop finder window will open. You can also use a keyboard shortcut within your finder to access this airdrop menu by pressing shift command and r.

Share content with airdrop. Navigate to finder and under favourite choose airdrop.