For years, transferring files between Android and iPhone has been a point of friction—a digital divide often bridged by clumsy email attachments or third-party apps. Today, Google announced that Quick Share on Android now works directly with iOS’s AirDrop.
According to Google’s latest announcement, the goal is simple: “Sharing should just work.” By enabling Quick Share to handshake with AirDrop, users can now send photos, videos, and documents seamlessly between an Android phone and an iPhone without needing a workaround. This move follows Google’s recent push for better interoperability, sitting alongside other initiatives like the adoption of RCS messaging and cross-platform unknown tracker alerts.
The feature makes its debut on the Pixel 10 family of devices starting today. Google has confirmed it will expand this compatibility to more Android devices down the road, though the company hasn’t announced a specific timeframe for non-Pixel phones yet.
Google emphasized that this new bridge was built with user privacy protection in mind. The protocols used to communicate with AirDrop have been tested by independent security experts to ensure that data remains protected during the hand-off between the two different operating systems.
Whether you are a family split between the two platforms or a professional working with diverse hardware, the ability to “AirDrop” a file from a Pixel to an iPhone (and vice versa) is a significant quality-of-life improvement that users have been requesting for over a decade.
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