An AirDrop menu on an iPhone screen. - Aleksey H/Shutterstock Google surprised Android users in late November 2025 by enabling Quick Share to work with Apple's AirDrop feature on iPhone, iPad, and Mac ...

In late November 2025, Google announced it had made AirDrop compatible with Android, allowing iPhone and Mac users to share files wirelessly with Android phones. Apple was not involved in the ...

I have a unique lifestyle, constantly shuffling between different smartphone platforms. I wish sharing files between Apple and Android devices was easier, so my ears perked up when I saw the EU ...

Android now has its own answer to Apple’s AirDrop, and it finally works across the iPhone divide as well as between laptops and tablets. At the center of this is Quick Share, a built in feature that ...

These were the best announcements to come out of this year's Google I/O. Last week, we asked you about which announcements ...

Google has rolled out AirDrop to even more Android smartphones. Is your Android phone on the list?

Jake Peterson is Lifehacker’s Tech Editor, and has been covering tech news and how-tos for nearly a decade. His team covers all things technology, including AI, smartphones, computers, game consoles, ...

I’m an image goblin. I can’t help it: I see something funny or cute, and I’ll scrape it from the internet to share with friends and family, far and wide. But I often forget that I saved the image to a ...

Jake Peterson is Lifehacker’s Tech Editor, and has been covering tech news and how-tos for nearly a decade. His team covers all things technology, including AI, smartphones, computers, game consoles, ...

Easy and convenient file transfer technologies are becoming more necessary in our digital lives. Such tools and services come particularly handy in wirelessly sharing and receiving images, videos, ...

Image Generated with Google Gemini. Google is making Android–iPhone sharing easier by letting Pixel 10 users send and receive files over Apple’s AirDrop, using a secure peer-to-peer link. Google just ...

Quick Share is already compatible with Apple's AirDrop feature on select Android devices, but Google says the feature will expand to Samsung, OPPO, OnePlus, Vivo, Xiaomi, and HONOR devices in 2026.