Airdrop does not work.

[jairfonseca]

Hello, I currently have a Hackintosh with macOS Sierra that works very well, the only problem is that Airdrop does not work for me.

In the Finder the option of Airdrop If it is available, but cannot find my iPhone and iPad, my devices do not find the Hackintosh Airdrop either

I am using a PCI Express TP-Link TL-WDN4800 and a generic Bluetooth 4.0 USB.


Is it possible to solve this problem and that Airdrop works perfectly?

Thank you.


If necessary, this is my hackintosh.

Gigabyte GA-Z87X-UD5H Z87 (F9)
Intel i7 4790K
NVIDIA Zotac AMP Extreme GTX 980 Ti 6143 MB
32GB Ram Corsair Vengeance Pro 32GB 1600 MHz
MacOS Sierra 10.12.6

 

[jairfonseca]

Up!

 

[Kylex427]

I think the fact that you're using a generic USB dongle for bluetooth is what's causing the problem. Usually, if you want to get handoff/continuity, etc to work, you have to use a bluetooth/wifi card that is natively supported (or has a kext that enables near native-like functionality).

A lot of us do that by using Fenvi FV-T919, which has an Apple wifi/bluetooth card used in it. (There are a few more options, but this is the one that I use and am therefore familiar with.)

The link to the product can be found here (by the way, it's currently on sale!):

fenvi FV-T919 Hackintosh 1750Mbps PCI-E Wifi Adapter - Newegg.com

Buy fenvi FV-T919 Hackintosh 1750Mbps Wireless PCI-E Bluetooth 4.0 BCM94360 Wifi Adapter For macOS Catalina/Big Sur/Monterey/Wi-fi Card For PC, Up to 1300M (5Ghz), Dual Band 802.11ac, Airdrop/Handoff with fast shipping and top-rated customer service. Once you know, you Newegg!

www.newegg.com

This option is pretty popular because it works OOB (as long as you have a port limit patch anyways or SSDT for USBinjectall), and works extremely well.

-Kyle

Edited for clarity.