Last week, at my girlfriend's place she couldn't make AirDrop work to display a video on the TV so we ended up using a HDMI cable after of ~30 mins of no luck.

Last week, at my girlfriend's place she couldn't make AirDrop work to display a video on the TV so we ended up using a HDMI cable after of ~30 mins of no luck. Yesterday I went over and the same thing happened only that she mentioned that I'm a bad influence since it worked that last two times when I wasn't there. I took a quick self evaluation and concluded that I'm not possessed by demonic powers, I don't have excess electromagnetic radiation and other supernatural explanation. I remembered the "OpenOffice will never print on Tuesdays" and "My car doesn’t like vanilla ice-cream" stories so it got me curious what changes. The only thing that I added to the equation was my Android phone connected to Wifi. I put it to airplane mode and voilà, AirDrop started working.