{"id":172742,"date":"2025-12-03T11:29:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T11:29:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/172742\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T11:29:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T11:29:15","slug":"huawei-launches-app-for-airdrop-style-file-transfers-between-harmonyos-and-apple-devices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/172742\/","title":{"rendered":"Huawei launches app for AirDrop-style file transfers between HarmonyOS and Apple devices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Chinese telecoms giant Huawei Technologies has launched a new app to facilitate seamless data exchange between its proprietary operating system HarmonyOS and Apple\u2019s iOS ecosystem.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The \u201cHarmonyOS Interconnect\u201d app was recently made available on the App Store for MacOS devices, days after the release of the version for the iPhone and iPad. Once installed on an Apple device, it allows AirDrop-style transfers of files, images, videos and contact information between a device running on the latest HarmonyOS 6.<\/p>\n<p>The move was promised by Huawei in late October when launching the HarmonyOS 6. At the time it said the new system would enable direct file transfers between Huawei and <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/apple?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Apple<\/a> devices for the first time.HarmonyOS 6, which was <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/tech\/big-tech\/article\/3315287\/huawei-opens-harmonyos-6-developers-unveils-ai-agents-and-cloud-architecture-updates?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">initially made available to developers<\/a> in June, is expected to be found in more than 90 Huawei devices after a software update by year end. The newly launched Mate 80 and foldable Mate X7 smartphones, announced last week, already run on the system.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Huawei launched HarmonyOS as an Android alternative for the Chinese market in August 2019, just months after the US government added the company to a trade blacklist that blocked it from buying US-origin technologies without Washington\u2019s approval.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The \u2018HarmonyOS Interconnect\u2019 app is available on the App Store for MacOS devices. Photo: Handout\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/e78be102-cd34-43b8-b5b3-fb2a8dd1de66_f3ced7ef.jpg\" title=\"The \u2018HarmonyOS Interconnect\u2019 app is available on the App Store for MacOS devices. Photo: Handout\"\/>The \u2018HarmonyOS Interconnect\u2019 app is available on the App Store for MacOS devices. Photo: Handout<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">In a 2024 update, HarmonyOS added a \u201ctap-to-transfer\u201d feature, allowing users to easily share content by physically touching one device on the other. It was not clear if the new app would also facilitate such a feature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chinese telecoms giant Huawei Technologies has launched a new app to facilitate seamless data exchange between its proprietary&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":172743,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[61104,936,95207,37756,1647,61,6931,7909,4178,60,95206,19150,41489,80],"class_list":["post-172742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-airdrop","tag-apple","tag-file-transfer","tag-harmonyos","tag-huawei","tag-ie","tag-ios","tag-ipad","tag-iphone","tag-ireland","tag-macbook","tag-macos","tag-operating-system","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172742\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/172743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}