{"id":558133,"date":"2026-03-23T02:00:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T02:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/558133\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T02:00:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T02:00:10","slug":"samsung-rolling-out-airdrop-over-quick-share-on-galaxy-s26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/558133\/","title":{"rendered":"Samsung rolling out AirDrop over Quick Share on Galaxy S26"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t<img width=\"1600\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/samsung-quick-share-airdrop.jpg\" class=\"skip-lazy wp-post-image\" alt=\"\"  decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Samsung has officially confirmed plans to start rolling out AirDrop support over Quick Share starting with the Galaxy S26 series this week.<\/p>\n<p>Starting tomorrow, March 23, Samsung <a href=\"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/samsung-airdrop-quick-share-galaxy-s26-series\/?utm_source=pr_media&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=generalhttps:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/samsung-airdrop-quick-share-galaxy-s26-series\/?utm_source=pr_media&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=general\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">will<\/a> be rolling out AirDrop over Quick Share support on the Galaxy S26, S26+, and S26 Ultra. This feature first <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/2025\/11\/20\/android-quick-share-airdrop-pixel-10\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">debuted on Google Pixel 10 devices<\/a> in late 2025, expanding to the <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/2026\/02\/17\/quick-share-airdrop-pixel-9\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pixel 9 series in recent weeks.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Samsung explained in a note shared with 9to5Google and others that the rollout begins on March 23 in Korea, with the US rollout beginning \u201clater that week.\u201d Other supported regions will include Europe, Hong Kong, Japan, Latin America, North America, Southeast Asia, and Taiwan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAdditional Galaxy devices\u201d will get AirDrop over Quick Share support later on, but there\u2019s no specific timeline.<\/p>\n<p>\tAdvertisement &#8211; scroll for more content<\/p>\n<p>Importantly, and unlike Pixel, AirDrop support on Samsung Galaxy is not enabled by default. Rather, there\u2019s a separate setting found under Quick Share settings to \u201cShare with Apple devices.\u201d On that page, Samsung explains that Galaxy users need to tell iPhone users to ensure \u201cEveryone\u201d mode is enabled, with the same needed on the Galaxy device if files are being sent in the opposite direction.<\/p>\n<p>It sounds as though Google\u2019s implementation of AirDrop support over Quick Share could expand even further in the Android ecosystem soon, as <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/2026\/03\/04\/airdrop-android-quick-share-oppo\/\" type=\"post\" id=\"707206\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Oppo also recently said<\/a> that its devices would add support before the end of this month.<\/p>\n<p>More on Quick Share:<\/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":"Samsung has officially confirmed plans to start rolling out AirDrop support over Quick Share starting with the Galaxy&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":558134,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[64,63,203,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-558133","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\/558133","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=558133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558133\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/558134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=558133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=558133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=558133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}