Chris, Both the model of MacBook and the iPhone do not support the Hand off feature. You need a 5S to use hand-off as well as a 2012 MacBook Pro. Continuity features would likely work, but not the Hand-off features with those models.
Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On Jul 28, 2015, at 02:09, Christopher-Mark Gilland <clgillan...@gmail.com> wrote: Guys, This is just totally strange. I'm over here looking at my friend Ben's mac. He has a white 13 inch mid 2010 polycarbon system running Yosemite. He also has the original IPhone 5. Not the 5S, and not the 5C. this is just the plain AT&T 5 32GB phone. His phone isn't activated. It has a sim card in it, yes, but it's not activated any longer. So, he's basically just using the thing as a majorly glorified IPod. Anyway, though I know he couldn't therefore make cellular calls with his mac, that's obvious, shouldn't he at least! be able to do continuity with things like Mail, etc? He had started writing an e-mail on his phone while on wifi, but then tried handing it off to his mac. The really weird thing is, he can't. Nothing is in his doc that will let him open up the message. OK, Mail is! in his dock, yes, but it's just the regular app, it's not the handoff message. We looked through his whole dock, huge as it is. Nothing's there of sort. I turned off handoff and back on on his phone, resprung his phone, rebooted his phone entirely, signed him into Facetime on his phone, just in case that remotely somehow matters, as it's so integraded with that feature, I disabled and re-enabled bluetooth both on his mac, and on his phone, his mac is showing up in neither of the two places. Yes, both are discoverable. Had him reboot his mac, which did absolutely no good. He's on 10.10.4 Yosemite, and has I O S 8.4, not the beta, but the literal official release build. On his mac, when I look under system prefs, general, I don't even see a checkbox like I do on all my macs, including a macbook of the exact same make, model, year, generation, and time of year built running the same exact build of Yosemite. I checked, and he had no software udpates either on the mac, nor on the phone. The only explaination that I have is, could it be that being he only has a 5, not a 5S, his phone isn't 64 bit compatible? I'd not think that would make a difference with this, especially being the option is there in I O S on his phone, but who knows. The other really weird thing is, even though he only has his IMessage account activated in Messages on the mac, he somehow's gotten an icon for Messages up in his menu extras. How in the world diddie do that!? I looked in Messages prefs, and see no way to make it do this, and none of my macs ever! have done it. All the menu has when I vo+space on it is ways for him basically to change his status. As I said, he even had that up in his menu extras before being signed into his IMessage account with his Apple ID. He does have Bonjour and Google Talk set up in there, but they're not active, so I don't think that! would be it, would it? I'm totally mesmorized. Chris. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com <mailto:macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com>. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com <mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com>. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries <http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries>. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout <https://groups.google.com/d/optout>. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
