“Most of our readers will be familiar by now with Apple’s Continuity suite, a slew of features which were introduced with iOS 8 and OS X Yosemite. These features include Instant Hotspot, a new AirDrop, SMS/Phone calls from Mac, and Handoff,” Joaquim Barbosa writes for iDownloadBlog. “With macOS Sierra and iOS 10, they added Auto Unlock and Universal Clipboard to the group.”
“The catch is of course that making use of these features requires certain hardware,” Barbosa writes. “Therefore, Macs from before about 2010/11 appear not to support some or all of the new functionality.”
“However, it turns out there is a way to enable Continuity on your older hardware,” Barbosa writes. “In this guide we’ll go through how to do it. The software we will be using is called Continuity Activation Tool, and it fools macOS into believing its hardware is compatible with Continuity’s requirements.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Continuity powers, activate!
Worked like a charm on my 2011 Mac Mini. Nice to be able to transfer pics via airdrop now. Great article and tip!
Worked perfectly on my Mac mini mid 2011 too. I had to disable something via Terminal, but afterwards it worked as expected. Great tip.
You disabled SIP (system integrity protection) but you can reenable it after the patch.
Why does it take a 3rd party hack? why don’t Apple do this if it is possible and provide the best of breed experience across all their devicces – just like they always say they do, but in reality don’t
Maybe an unacceptable drop in User Experience for Apple’s taste?
I have a mid 2011 iMac with an Atheros Wi-Fi chip, so unfortunately I’m going to have to replace that. Luckily I found the kit from osxwifi which I’m going to purchase. Will be happy to link part if anyone is interested and detail my installation experience once I have completed it.