{"id":392766,"date":"2025-11-20T18:09:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T18:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/392766\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T18:09:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T18:09:12","slug":"pixel-10-phones-are-now-compatible-with-airdrop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/392766\/","title":{"rendered":"Pixel 10 phones are now compatible with AirDrop"},"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\">A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.netspi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/google-feature-review-report.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">post on Google\u2019s security blog<\/a> goes into greater detail about how it\u2019s implemented, claiming \u201cThis feature does not use a workaround; the connection is direct and peer-to-peer, meaning your data is never routed through a server, shared content is never logged, and no extra data is shared.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">What it doesn\u2019t say, however, is that it was added with any involvement from Apple \u2014 only that \u201cwe welcome the opportunity to work with Apple to enable \u2018Contacts Only\u2019 mode in the future.\u201d The blog post details Google\u2019s reasoning for why this implementation is secure, along with mentioning an independent security assessment from NetSPI (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.netspi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/google-feature-review-report.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">pdf<\/a>), preemptively pushing back on reasons Apple might cite to block compatibility. We\u2019ve reached out to Apple for comment on this announcement, and will update if we hear anything.<\/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 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/24141929\/apple-iphone-imessage-antitrust-dma-lock-in\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">lowering those garden walls<\/a>.<\/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":3,"featured_media":392767,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[2718,239,2722,15882,2020,50,242,158,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-392766","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-google","11":"tag-google-pixel","12":"tag-iphone","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-tech","15":"tag-technology","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=392766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392766\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/392767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}