Anyhoo, at least I can tell you what worked for me YMMV.

Since Airdrop worked with my more modern iPad Pro 2018, may only be an issue for folks using Airdrop as target devices with older legacy iPhones/iPads. So the same volume of data was transferred in the end, proving that it wasn't down to insufficient local storage. Then I had to airdrop the chunky files I removed to get the total folder size down to 1.5 GB and move them back into the folder on the receiving iPad Air 2. Thus, with the help of AirDrop, you can not only AirDrop from iPhone to Mac but also AirDrop from Mac to iPhone or. That was it: only after I got the folder size down to 1.5 GB, did Airdrop succeed. AirDrop is an ad-hoc service released alongside OS X 10.7 Lion and iOS 7 that enables you to share photos, videos, contacts, documents, and more between two AirDrop-supported devices, including iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch, and Mac.

I also tried disabling and re-enabling the Bluetooth on both the sending and receiving devices for the sake of completeness.ĭid some testing to see if file size was a limiting factor by incrementally removing chunky files and retrying the transfer. The Airdrop was attempted again after rebooting the iPad Air 2. However, things may become more complicated when you need to share files between iPhone and your Windows 10 PC, since Apple doesn’t provide AirDrop support for the Windows OS. Oh, and Bluetooth was doing nothing other than Airdrop at the time of the issue. AirDrop enables you to transfer files between your iPhone, Mac, iPad or iPod, which is a handy feature exclusive to Apple products. Airdrop succeeds on the iPad Pro (1TB storage), but reports a ' cancelled' error on the sending device, a Macbook Pro (2018) running OSX 10.15.7 despite the iPad Air 2 (128 GB) having the required free space. So same folder containing same files, both devices running the most current version of IOS- 14.2. This proved it was certainly possible, just not on my iPad Air 2 running the same version of IOS 14.2 I was fortunate to have uploaded the same folder successfully on an iPad Pro (2018) running IOS 14.2. I Googled this issue and found a question on Apple's forums, but sadly with no answers.

Airdrop from mac to phone cancled