Had you finished your text? It seems not to explain very much. Almost as if it cut off.
Sincerely, The Constantly Barefooted Ray Still a happy Mac, Verizon Wireless iPhone 6+ and Apple TV user! Sent from my Mac, the only computer with full accessibility for the blind built-in > On Jul 28, 2015, at 3:09 AM, Christopher-Mark Gilland <[email protected]> > 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 [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > 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 [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
