Your Samsung Galaxy S26 Is About to Get AirDrop

Samsung said successful a property league Friday that it volition beryllium adding AirDrop to its Galaxy S26 phones, arsenic 9to5Google wrote. Now, the institution tells IGN that the update volition commencement rolling retired connected March 23 successful Korea, and volition deed US Samsung phones aboriginal successful the week.

Samsung's announcement comes weeks aft Google seemingly cracked the diagnostic and announced it was adding it to Pixel 10 phones. The institution past promised past period the capableness would dispersed to different Android phones this year, and so, present we are.

AirDrop volition travel successful arsenic portion of an update to Quick Share, the Android mentation of the feature. Based connected an animation Samsung shared with IGN, users who person the diagnostic tin activate it by swiping down from the apical of their surface and tapping Settings > Connected devices > Quick Share > Share with Apple Devices, past toggling the diagnostic on. A statement of the diagnostic says that with this turned on, "your telephone whitethorn temporarily disconnect from Wi-Fi networks portion searching for oregon sharing with Apple devices."

With AirDrop on, Galaxy S26 owners volition beryllium capable to, without immoderate peculiar tricks, rapidly stock images and images with iPhones, Macs, iPads, and immoderate different AirDrop-capable devices. For it to work, Apple users volition request to person AirDrop acceptable to "Everyone." The institution says that though this is lone coming to S26 phones astatine first, it "plans to grow to further Galaxy devices astatine a aboriginal date."

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