More Android phones to support AirDrop via Quick Share this year
Google has announced that it's expanding support for AirDrop via Quick Share to more Android phones.
The tech giant, during its The Android Show on May 12, revealed that it's making the Apple wireless file-sharing feature compatible with devices like the Pixel, Samsung, OPPO, OnePlus, Vivo, Xiaomi, and HONOR this year.
Samsung's Galaxy S26 series became the first Android to support AirDrop via QuickShare. Other devices like the Google Pixel 10 series, Pixel 9 series, and Pixel 8A, OPPO Find X9 series, OPPO Find N6, and Vivo X300 Ultra will follow.
Others getting the feature soon include the Samsung Galaxy S25 series, Galaxy S24 series, Z Flip7, ZFold7, Z Flip6, Z Fold6, and Z TriFold, OPPO Find X8 series, OnePlus 15, HONOR Magic V6, and HONOR Magic8 Pro.
This function will make sharing files from iPhones to Android more seamless.
Google noted that if you don't have a compatible device, you can share files from Android to iOS via Quick Share by generating a QR code, which will let you do transfers via the cloud. This feature will be rolled out to all Android phones today and will be fully available within the next month, according to the tech giant.
Additionally, the company is working on making Quick Share available in apps like WhatsApp.
"We wanted to make Quick Share compatible with AirDrop on as many phones as possible, but there needs to be some supported hardware. And so the Quick Share technology will be built into WhatsApp," Google's Dieter Bohn told tech outlet Android Authority in a media briefing.
"So if you want to share a file with somebody who doesn’t have AirDrop compatibility with Quick Share, they can open up WhatsApp, and it will go directly (to them). It won’t have to go up the internet and back down again. We wanted to make local file sharing work for as many people as possible, because that seems like an obvious thing that should just work in 2026.”
AirDrop allows for quick wireless file-sharing across Apple devices like iPhones, iPads, and Macs.
