{"id":456696,"date":"2026-02-06T02:10:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T02:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/456696\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T02:10:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T02:10:10","slug":"google-hints-at-big-airdrop-expansion-for-android-very-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/456696\/","title":{"rendered":"Google hints at big AirDrop expansion for Android &#8220;very soon&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Android has its own AirDrop-like feature called Quick Share (formerly Google Nearby Share), but until recently, it couldn\u2019t communicate with Apple\u2019s AirDrop. As we <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2025\/11\/the-eu-made-apple-adopt-new-wi-fi-standards-and-now-android-can-support-airdrop\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reported in November<\/a>, the European Union required Apple to implement the Wi-Fi Aware standard in AirDrop, which enabled Google to add support for the Pixel 10 lineup. Google confirmed it didn\u2019t need to work with Apple at all to make that happen.<\/p>\n<p>As part of the\u00a0Quick Share updates, Google has added an\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.google.android.mosey\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">extension<\/a> to the Play Store that allows\u00a0Quick Share to operate as a full, updatable APK rather than an element of Play Services. That should make it easier to roll out new features to the entire Android ecosystem. Currently, the extension only supports a smattering of Android phones, but we can expect that list to expand as AirDrop comes to more devices this year.<\/p>\n<p>With AirDrop support, Android devices can send files to iOS and macOS devices without downloading third-party apps. However, the functionality requires Apple users to enable the \u201cEveryone for 10 minutes\u201d connectivity option. While Google can shoehorn Android into the Wi-Fi Aware system, it cannot use Apple\u2019s contact-based sharing options. That probably won\u2019t change with the pending update.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, \u201cvery soon\u201d in Google-speak can mean many things. The company does like to pair Android ecosystem updates with Pixel Drops, and the next one of those is expected in March, with changes to location privacy, At a Glance, and more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Android has its own AirDrop-like feature called Quick Share (formerly Google Nearby Share), but until recently, it couldn\u2019t&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":456697,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[49,48,61],"class_list":["post-456696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=456696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456696\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/456697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=456696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}