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cli fix for AirDrop problem iPhone -> Mac
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An annoying problem when you can't airdrop from your iPhone to your own Mac: you see the Mac as an Airdrop target but a transfer never succeeds.
- all the usual suspects are checked:
- visible to Everyone
- same Wifi, same iCloud account, BT on both
- Mac Firewall allows incoming connections fro system services and sharingd
- ....
run
sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.mDNSResponder.plist NoMulticastAdvertisements -bool false
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markus-wolf commented Mar 23, 2026

Caveat Emptor: YMMV, beware of the side effects if you care about Multicasts

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