Pixel 10 Phones Are Now Compatible With Airdrop

Sharing? Across platforms? In this economy?

Google just announced some unexpected and invited news: Pixel 10 owners tin now nonstop and person files pinch Apple devices complete AirDrop. According to Google, this useful pinch iPhone, iPad, and macOS devices, and applies to nan full Pixel 10 series. It’s constricted to Google’s latest phones for now, but Google spokesperson Alex Moriconi says, “We’re bringing this caller acquisition to Pixel 10 first earlier expanding to different devices.”

In bid to nonstop a record from a Pixel 10 telephone complete AirDrop, nan proprietor of nan Apple instrumentality will request to alteration their settings to make their instrumentality discoverable to anyone — there’s an action to do this pinch an automatic limit of 10 minutes. Then, nan Pixel 10 proprietor should beryllium capable to spot nan instrumentality utilizing Quick Share and nonstop it. On nan different side, it seems that it’ll look conscionable for illustration immoderate different AirDrop petition that nan personification tin o.k. to commencement nan transfer. 

According to support documentation, it goes nan different way, too. Likewise, nan Pixel 10 instrumentality will request to beryllium discoverable to anyone aliases successful person mode. Then nan Apple instrumentality proprietor starts an AirDrop transfer, nan Pixel proprietor accepts, and voila: cross-platform sharing.

Notably, this isn’t an Android characteristic yet — it’s presently constricted to Google’s ain phones, and nan latest procreation astatine that. Still, it’s benignant of immense news for Android users. Seamless sharing betwixt Apple devices pinch AirDrop is 1 of those highly adjuvant features that’s been kept wrong nan walled plot until now. With RCS now wide successful usage connected iPhones, making cross-platform messaging easier, it seems for illustration different meaningful measurement guardant to lowering those plot walls.