{"id":553246,"date":"2026-03-20T17:27:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T17:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/553246\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T17:27:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T17:27:10","slug":"samsung-galaxy-s26-to-get-airdrop-support-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/553246\/","title":{"rendered":"Samsung Galaxy S26 to get AirDrop support soon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t<img width=\"1600\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/galaxy-s26-ultra-review-15.jpg\" class=\"skip-lazy wp-post-image\" alt=\"\"  decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p>As expected, Samsung has just confirmed plans to launching AirDrop support via Google\u2019s Quick Share on its Galaxy S26 series in the near future.<\/p>\n<p>During a press conference in Japan, as reported by Korean publication <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ebn.co.kr\/news\/articleView.html?idxno=1702550\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">EBN<\/a>, Samsung\u2019s Choi Won-jun confirmed that, yes, the company plans to roll out AirDrop support to the Galaxy S26 series soon. This was rumored around the time of the Galaxy S26 series launch when an early software build mentioned support, but it was not live on the series <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/2026\/02\/27\/samsung-galaxy-s26-airdrop-support-not-yet\/\" type=\"post\" id=\"706315\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">upon their initial launch earlier this month<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We plan to support AirDrop compatibility starting with the Galaxy S26 series\u2026 It will be provided sequentially through software updates.<\/p>\n<p>Other Galaxy devices will get support following the Galaxy S26 series, though a timeline on either remains unclear.<\/p>\n<p>Google first launched AirDrop support over <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/2025\/11\/20\/android-quick-share-airdrop-pixel-10\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Quick Share on its Pixel 10 series last year<\/a> in what was quite a surprise to everyone. The native implementation makes Pixel 10 devices \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/2026\/02\/17\/quick-share-airdrop-pixel-9\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">and now Pixel 9 series devices<\/a> \u2014 appear within AirDrop on iPhone, iPad, and Mac as if they were iPhones. The only big limitation is that devices need to be set to \u201cEveryone\u201d mode in order to see each other. Still, that\u2019s a far lower barrier of entry compared to what we had before.<\/p>\n<p>\tAdvertisement &#8211; scroll for more content<\/p>\n<p>As far as an expansion beyond Pixel goes, Google hasn\u2019t made any official announcements. But it sounds like the floodgates could open at any moment. Recently, <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/2026\/03\/04\/airdrop-android-quick-share-oppo\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Oppo said that it expects AirDrop support<\/a> to land on its devices as soon as this month. <\/p>\n<p>More on Samsung:<\/p>\n<p>Follow Ben:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NexusBen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Twitter\/X<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.threads.net\/@nexusben\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Threads<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/nexusben.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bluesky<\/a>, and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/nexusben\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Instagram<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/google.com\/preferences\/source?q=https:\/\/9to5google.com\" aria-label=\"Add 9to5Google as a preferred source on Google\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"google-preferred-source-badge-dark\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1764168249_77_google-preferred-source-badge-dark.png\" alt=\"Add 9to5Google as a preferred source on Google\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"google-preferred-source-badge-light\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1764168249_206_google-preferred-source-badge-light.png\" alt=\"Add 9to5Google as a preferred source on Google\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"disclaimer-affiliate\">FTC: We use income earning auto affiliate links. <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/about\/#affiliate\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">More.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/4uwm7k1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-708700\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/03-18-Galaxy-S26-Series-Ghost-Banner.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"140\"\/><\/a>\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As expected, Samsung has just confirmed plans to launching AirDrop support via Google\u2019s Quick Share on its Galaxy&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":553247,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[64,63,203,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-553246","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mobile","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-mobile","11":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=553246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553246\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/553247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=553246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=553246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=553246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}