How I Fixed a Broken 'AirDrop' Following iOS 8 Upgrade

Prior to upgrading my iPad Mini (retina) and iPhone 5S from iOS 7+ to iOS 8, AirDrop had been working perfectly for transferring files to, from and among my mobile devices. It was a great disappointment to discover that, after all the anticipation of iOS 8's slick, new features, I was disappointed to find that the AirDrop functionality was no longer working at all. That is, even though it was enabled on both the sending device and target device, neither device could 'discover' the other, though both are on the same Wi-Fi network.
After fiddling around for a couple hours, trying various 'fixes' suggested by others, I suddenly realized that I hadn't yet tried the remedy usually suggested for situations like this (i.e. an unresponsive (frozen) device or functionality) viz., a reset. Of course, people generally suggest first doing a simple reboot of the device before doing a reset, but I had already tried turning each device off then back on, but to no avail.
Anyway, for those of you reading this who haven't yet attempted this reset procedure, I'll detail exactly what I did to get my iPad Mini and iPhone back to full, AirDrop functionality:
1. First, I powered off the device;
2. Next, I pressed and held down on the Home Button.
3. At the same time, I pressed and held down the Sleep/Wake Button ahd kept pressing down (i.e. on both buttons) for about 10 seconds, until the Apple appeared on the screen, at which point I released both buttons and let the device continue to open.
I'm only saying that It worked for me! If you haven't thought to try a simple Reset, now would be a good time to give it a shot.
Best regards,
Bill

Thanks a ton! This worked when everything else failed.

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