{"id":13955,"date":"2016-03-23T13:10:06","date_gmt":"2016-03-23T17:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=13955"},"modified":"2016-03-23T13:10:06","modified_gmt":"2016-03-23T17:10:06","slug":"adventures-in-troubleshooting-airdrop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/23\/adventures-in-troubleshooting-airdrop\/","title":{"rendered":"Adventures in Troubleshooting AirDrop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sixcolors.com\/post\/2016\/03\/adventures-in-troubleshooting-airdrop\/\">Dan Moren<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/sixcolors.com\/post\/2016\/03\/adventures-in-troubleshooting-airdrop\/\">\n<p>Just now, as I was writing out this list, I realized I hadn&rsquo;t tried to force-quit and restart the Photos app, so I did that. And weirdly enough, that seemed to make AirDrop work again&mdash;at least for now.<\/p>\n<p>Yet I still can&rsquo;t be <em>entirely<\/em> sure that that&rsquo;s what actually fixed it, and I think this is one reason that we&rsquo;ve been having, of late, this discussion about the declining quality of Apple&rsquo;s software.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>All three of those factors taken together make the technology, which can feel magical at the best of times, instead seem downright capricious.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>AirDrop is a total mystery to me. Half the time it works great. But half the time it doesn&rsquo;t work at all, seemingly without me having changed anything, and no troubleshooting checklist ever seems to fix it. Then a few days or weeks later it mysteriously starts working again.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dan Moren: Just now, as I was writing out this list, I realized I hadn&rsquo;t tried to force-quit and restart the Photos app, so I did that. And weirdly enough, that seemed to make AirDrop work again&mdash;at least for now. Yet I still can&rsquo;t be entirely sure that that&rsquo;s what actually fixed it, and I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1003,1143,131,31,1137,30,1199],"class_list":["post-13955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-airdrop","tag-apple-software-quality","tag-bug","tag-ios","tag-ios-9","tag-mac","tag-mac-os-x-10-11"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13955"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13956,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13955\/revisions\/13956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}