Quick Share Will Soon Work With Apple’s AirDrop on More Android Devices

Google recently found a way to make Android’s Quick Share nearby sharing feature compatible with Apple’s similar AirDrop technology, and this will soon expand beyond the initial rollout on the Pixel 10 family. While it wasn’t initially clear if Apple would try to block this, Eric Kay, Vice President of Engineering for the Android platform, recently confirmed that more Android devices will get to share content with iPhones via Quick Share.

“Last year, we launched AirDrop interoperability. In 2026, we’re going to be expanding it to a lot more devices,” Kay said during a press briefing in Taipei attended by Android Authority. “We spent a lot of time and energy to make sure that we could build something that was compatible not only with iPhones but iPads and MacBooks. Now that we’ve proven it out, we’re working with our partners to expand it into the rest of the ecosystem, and you should see some exciting announcements coming very soon,” the exec added.

Back in November, Google said that its solution for enabling Quick Share/AirDrop interoperability on the Pixel 10 family was built with “security at its core” and audited by independent security experts. Right after the announcement, Carl Pei, the CEO of Nothing, said the company was looking to bring this interoperability feature to its lineup of Android phones as soon as possible.

At the moment, Quick Share/AirDrop interoperability requires iPhone, iPad, and Mac users to change their AirDrop visibility to “Everyone for 10 Minutes,” which may not be ideal. While Apple apparently didn’t cooperate with Google on this, the iPhone maker did make some changes to open up its walled garden: The company finally embraced the RCS messaging standard pushed by Google, and the upcoming iOS 26.3 will also introduce a new iPhone-to-Android transfer tool.