Apple has AirDrop. Android now has Quick Share.
At CES 2024, Google announced Quick Share, a collaboration with Samsung for a unified method of sharing for Android and Chromebook devices. Samsung showed off Quick Share this week at Galaxy Unpacked 2024, giving users a closer look as to how the new sharing feature works. The new Quick Share will come default on the Samsung Galaxy S24, also announced at this week’s event.
For several years now, Samsung and Android have used their own features for sharing, which work across devices, but not perfectly.
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The new Quick Share looks to bridge the existing divide and bring all the best sharing features from both the Google and Samsung services to more Android users.
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Google and Samsung announce a new way to share files
To be clear, Quick Share isn’t new. Samsung has had Quick Share since 2020, and Android has had its unique sharing feature, Nearby Share, since about that same time, but the two companies are now collaborating on a singular cross-Android sharing method under the Quick Share name.
Although the two existing file transfer protocols are similar, there are several major differences between Quick Share and Nearby Share. Samsung created Quick Share for Samsung devices only; the sharing feature doesn’t work with other non-Samsung Android devices (without some workarounds). On the other hand, Google’s Nearby Share is available for all Android devices, including Samsung, but some features available in Quick Share are missing from Nearby Share, like sending files to multiple devices at once.
Luckily, if you’re an Android user, you no longer have to…
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