By Bill Toulas
Publication Date: 2025-11-23 15:32:00
Google has added interoperability support between Android Quick Share and Apple AirDrop, to let users share files between Pixel devices and iPhones.
For now, only Pixel 10-series devices support the new data transmission and reception capability, but more Android models will follow.
Quick Share (formerly Nearby Share) is Android’s built-in wireless file-sharing system for sending media, documents, and other files between Android devices over Bluetooth or Wi-Fi Direct.
AirDrop is Apple’s equivalent system, which, so far, has only worked for sharing files among iPhones, iPads, and Macs.
Both systems are proprietary and follow different technical approaches, each using its own discovery protocol, authentication flow, and packet formats and parsers.
The lack of a common communication standard between Apple and Google devices restricted users to sharing files with peers in the same ecosystem.
Google announced that this lockdown has been lifted, and people can…
