Google could soon make sharing files from Android to iPhone much easier

• Quick Share could travel to iOS and macOS soon
• It enables speedy record transfers betwixt devices
• Third-party replacement devices are already available

Quick Share connected Android is nan balanced of AirDrop, enabling files to beryllium easy transferred between Android devices, Chromebooks, and Windows – and location are signs that Google is readying to adhd support for iPhones, iPads, and Macs.

As spotted by nan squad astatine Android Authority, a remark near by a Google technologist connected codification basal to Quick Share mentions iOS and macOS specifically – a remark which would make much consciousness if an app for these platforms was successful nan works.

It's not nan biggest of hints, but location could beryllium thing to it. There's already an charismatic Quick Share for Windows app, truthful it's not excessively overmuch of a agelong to ideate Google rolling retired further apps for Apple devices on nan aforesaid lines.

As yet there's nary charismatic connection from Google astir this, but we'll fto you cognize if that changes. Quick Share was primitively called Nearby Share, and having launched retired of beta successful 2020, is now disposable connected nan mostly of Android phones and tablets.

Apple wouldn't build thing for illustration this into its ain package of course, truthful it would require iPhone, iPad, and Mac owners to download a abstracted app for this to activity – which mightiness beryllium thing of a stumbling block.

However, users pinch an Android telephone who besides make usage of an iPad aliases Mac, for example, would astir apt beryllium happy to download and instal different app if it meant much seamless record sharing betwixt each of their devices.

As pointed retired complete connected 9to5Google, location are already third-party devices disposable to do nan aforesaid job. An charismatic action from Google would astir apt connection a much convenient and seamless acquisition though (like Google's devices for switching to iOS).

You mightiness retrieve that earlier this twelvemonth Google and Samsung combined both of their sharing protocols to amended record transfers betwixt Pixel phones and Galaxy phones – and iPhones could beryllium adjacent connected nan list.

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