102 Macworld • August 2019HELP DESK
You can use Screen Time
to block AirDrop entirely
on an iOS devicereceiving machine. When sending, AirDrop provides
a warning or an error if your device can’t use it,
or the option to use AirDrop won’t appear in a
Sharing sheet or menu.
If you’re trying to AirDrop something to yourself
on another device and your device doesn’t appear,
try turning Bluetooth off and back on with both
devices. That often clears the state. If that fails,
switch the receiving device briefly to Everyone so
you can send the file or item, then switch it back to
your standard default.
macOS’s original AirDrop isn’t compatible with
the later version supported by iOS and macOS.
In macOS, you can click ‘Don’t see who you’re
looking for’ and then click Search for an Older
Mac to find Macs several releases back that are
reachable via AirDrop.Parental control
over AirDrop
While macOS has
granular parental
controls for a lot
of elements of the
operating system,
AirDrop isn’t one of
them. However, iOS