airdrop issue after 27.0

Try with Everyone for 10 Mins settings:

First, check your Screen Time restrictions on your iPhone.

Screen Time

Settings > Screen Time > Content and Privacy Restrictions > Allowed Apps > AirDrop [Enable]

Watch the GIF below

If you have Contacts Only turned On then please add the Apple ID of the sending device to your list of contacts on the receiving device. See the pic at the bottom of this post for better clarity

Probably you have "Receiving Off" ticked. Enable Contacts Only, See the pics below

iPhone

iPad

Macbook

Before you begin

• Make sure that the person you're sending to is nearby and within Bluetooth and Wi-Fi range.
• Check that you and the person you're sending to have Wi-Fi and Bluetooth turned on. If either of you have Personal Hotspot on, turn it off.
• Check if the person you're sending to has their AirDrop set to receive from Contacts Only. If they do, and you’re in their Contacts, they need to have your email address or mobile number in your contact card for AirDrop to work.
• If you're not in their Contacts, have them set their AirDrop receiving setting to Everyone in order to receive the file.

You can put your AirDrop receiving setting to Contacts Only or Receiving Off at any time to control who can see your device and send you content in AirDrop.

Try this method. See the pic below

Same, "reset network settings" was the only thing that fixed it.

Had this happen to me, I reset my network settings and it ended up working.

Not every issue an individual encounters on their device can be attributed to an iOS update. iOS 27 or later may have coincided with what you are experiencing, but that does not mean the issue was triggered by iOS. Coincidence in timing is not, by itself, evidence of causation.

If the update itself were the root cause, then every device running that same version of iOS would exhibit the identical problem. In such a scenario, the forums would be flooded with countless posts reporting the same malfunction, creating an unmistakable wave of complaints that no one could possibly overlook.

The absence of such widespread reports strongly indicates that the issue is not a general, system-wide problem with iOS 27 or later, but rather something specific to the individual device, its configuration, installed apps, settings, hardware, or another interacting factor.

In short: iOS 27 or later may be a coincidence in timing, but there is no basis to conclude that iOS itself triggered the problem simply because the issue appeared after the update.

I too am having trouble since updating my iPhone to iOS 27. I am an avid Apple user and never had this problem before. My iPad (15.8.7) has plenty of space and has all the settings set properly. I follow the normal way of airdropping and everything looks to have imported correctly, but then the iPad gives some sort of error that it was unable to save, and it gives the option of saving to iCloud Drive. When I do that, only a couple of the files are there, they are PVT files instead of photos, and they don’t display.

Updated my Macbook to Golden Gate 27.0.1.

While using Airdrop: I am not visible to my ipad or other devices, but I can see them from macbook and send files to them.

Even if I turn on Allow me to be discovered by: Everyone. I'm not visible to others.

Nothing has changed except my last macOS update

I’ve been trying to airdrop Pages documents between my iPhone 16pro and 2021 iPad Air 4 both 27.0.1. I’ve found airdrop to work differently since updating to 27.0.1 from 26. After airdropping from 16pro to iPad,  I could see the document on screen but as soon as I went to the folder directory, the document would disappear and couldnt be found even searching the whole device. I now have to move the document to a different folder within the Pages app  on the device and then save it. Previously, I don’t remember having to do this, the document would automatically save to Recents. I wasted a lot of time finding this out, far more than saved by faster transfer times. I can’t see anything about it in Tips.

The macbook also os 27.0.1 is the same as it was on os 26, documents automatically save in Downloads.

Same issue. There's nothing left to do but wait for it to fix itself with an update.