My Macbook Pro will not detect my samsung galaxy s6

Question

I'm trying to connect my samsung galaxy s6 to my macbook pro to run my apps from android studio; however, when I connect my phone to my mac via the usb cable that came with the phone, i get a notification on my phone that it is charging but my macbook and android studio do not detect it.

I have usb debugging on. Kies and filetransfer don't work.

I cant see the directory in finder even though I have show external disks and hard disks checked.

My phone and mac are both running the latest versions of android and OSX.

Answer 1

I solve it by using android file transfer. Download it from android official website https://www.android.com/filetransfer/

Install it on Macbook Pro and connect your phone with cable and ROCK!

Answer 2

Turns out that the cord provided by samsung is with mac computers due to OEM compatibility issues. Using a different cord with correct OEM data transfer compatibility will fix the issue.