{"id":191122,"date":"2025-11-20T17:37:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T17:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/191122\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T17:37:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T17:37:09","slug":"iphone-airdrop-now-works-with-android-too-if-you-have-a-pixel-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/191122\/","title":{"rendered":"iPhone AirDrop now works with Android too, if you have a Pixel 10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Google <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.google\/products\/android\/quick-share-airdrop\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">just announced <\/a>some unexpected and welcome news: Pixel 10 owners can now send and receive files with Apple devices over AirDrop. According to Google, this works with iPhone, iPad, and macOS devices, and applies to the entire Pixel 10 series. It\u2019s limited to Google\u2019s latest phones for now, but Google spokesperson Alex Moriconi says, \u201cWe\u2019re bringing this new experience to Pixel 10 first before expanding to other devices.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">In order to send a file from a Pixel 10 phone over AirDrop, the owner of the Apple device will need to change their settings to make their device discoverable to anyone \u2014 there\u2019s an option to do this with an automatic limit of 10 minutes. Then, the Pixel 10 owner should be able to see the device using Quick Share and send it. On the other side, it seems that it\u2019ll look just like any other AirDrop request that the user can approve to start the transfer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">According to <a href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/android\/answer\/9286773#zippy=%2Csend-content-to-an-iphone-ipad-or-macos-device%2Creceive-content-through-quick-share\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">support documentation<\/a>, it goes the other way, too. Likewise, the Pixel 10 device will need to be discoverable to anyone or in receive mode. Then the Apple device owner starts an AirDrop transfer, the Pixel owner accepts, and voila: cross-platform sharing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Notably, this isn\u2019t an Android feature yet \u2014 it\u2019s currently limited to Google\u2019s own phones, and the latest generation at that. Still, it\u2019s kind of huge news for Android users. Seamless sharing between Apple devices with AirDrop is one of those extremely helpful features that\u2019s been kept inside the walled garden until now. With RCS now widely in use on iPhones, making cross-platform messaging easier, it seems like another meaningful step forward to lowering those garden walls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Google just announced some unexpected and welcome news: Pixel 10 owners can now send and receive files with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":191123,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74],"tags":[821,311,18,823,1391,19,431,17,5,753,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-191122","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-android","9":"tag-apple","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-google","12":"tag-google-pixel","13":"tag-ie","14":"tag-iphone","15":"tag-ireland","16":"tag-news","17":"tag-tech","18":"tag-technology"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115583244411052453","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191122\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}