{"id":303100,"date":"2026-02-17T20:45:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T20:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/303100\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T20:45:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T20:45:07","slug":"now-pixel-9-phones-can-transfer-files-with-airdrop-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/303100\/","title":{"rendered":"Now Pixel 9 phones can transfer files with AirDrop, too"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">As with Pixel 10 phones, owners of (almost all) Pixel 9 phones will be able to send and receive files a little more easily with Apple devices. Files sent from a Pixel to an iPhone, Mac, or iPad will appear as AirDrop transfers. On the Android side, files are handled through Quick Share. The receiving Apple device needs to be discoverable to anyone \u2014 you can set a ten-minute time limit on this \u2014 and the Pixel likewise needs to be discoverable to all or in receive mode. With that done, all that\u2019s required is a tap to accept the transfer and you\u2019re on your way to cross-platform-sharing-bliss.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">That is, unless you\u2019re the owner of a Pixel 9A \u2014 you\u2019ll need to use plain Bluetooth or some other old-fashioned method. I asked Google why the 9A is excluded from AirDrop support, and communications manager Alex Moriconi said only that they\u2019re \u201clooking forward to improving the experience and expanding it to more Android devices over time.\u201d So if you want to be glass half full about it, the 9A could still be included in a future update. In the meantime at least, I\u2019m feeling pretty optimistic that this AirDrop compatibility is sticking around for the long-term.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As with Pixel 10 phones, owners of (almost all) Pixel 9 phones will be able to send and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":283886,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[203,1711,6794,61,60,202,43,216,80],"class_list":["post-303100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-gadgets","tag-google","tag-google-pixel","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-mobile","tag-news","tag-tech","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303100","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=303100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303100\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/283886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}