You're correct. I can get the part with IMessage and what not to work, it's
jsut making and receiving calls from my mac which is finnicky as hell!
Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. Usually more than not, it
doesn't. Sometimes it works on one of my macs, yet not another. It's just
very very mixed result.
Now, this being said, I have an IPad Air 1st gen, 32GB wifi only, and
believe it or not, making and receiving calls with Continuity/handoff on
that unit is pretty much rock solid. Go figure.
Chris.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sabahattin Gucukoglu" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, July 11, 2015 9:25 AM
Subject: Re: Continuity just doesn't work
There are really two separate components to “Continuity”, but both require
iCloud. They differ in how they use the network.
For iMessage SMS and FaceTime phone-call proxying, the devices just need
Wi-Fi proximity and access to the same iCloud account. In my experience
this part is reliable—certainly absent other iCloud issues, anyroad. Just
look for the settings to set it up in the Settings app or in System
Preferences. It’s not all that intuitive.
The rest of Continuity, the so-called “Handoff” feature, and AirDrop and
Hotspot, are in my experience (and it seems that of many others) the far
more fragile part. It uses iCloud, as well as Bluetooth 4.0 Low Energy
(which some hardware simply doesn’t have). Wi-Fi on Macs requires dual
association and is only supported by certain adaptors, but because of a
design problem in the chipsets, frequently fails. In my opinion, it’s not
only not worth worrying about these features since they can generally be
made up for with a bit of extra effort, but in any event they are so
unreliable as to be of no real practical use.
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