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Tom Pritchard

I’ve been waiting a decade for AirDrop on Android — and it’s finally fixed my biggest frustration

Android to iPhone AirDrop.

Last November, Google did something I always thought was impossible: it managed to break through a crack in Apple's walled garden and make QuickShare compatible with Apple's AirDrop. This allows QuickShare to connect with AirDrop, making file sharing between Android and iPhone completely painless. Most importantly, it doesn't only work in one direction: iPhone users can share files with Android with the same level of ease.

The only real problem is that Quick Share/AirDrop support was not universally added to Android overnight. It relied on the phone makers themselves to enable support, meaning only Google Pixel phones supported the change at the time. But four months is quite a long time, and things have changed a lot.

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