Samsung Now Officially Supports AirDrop, but Only ...

Again in November, Google made a stunning announcement: Fast Share was all of the sudden suitable with Apple’s AirDrop. On the time, the compatibility was restricted to the Pixel 10, however irrespective of: Google had simply made historical past, reworking the sharing options from platform-specific to cross-platform.

Whereas AirDrop and Fast Share have lengthy been essentially the most handy methods to share massive recordsdata between units, it solely labored in case you and your buddy had been on the identical OS. That limitation introduces some inconvenient friction, however, as assist cross-platform expands, that friction is easing up. Google first introduced plans for better AirDrop compatibility in Fast Share last month, when Android Vice President of Engineering Eric Kay famous, “[i]n 2026, we will be increasing [Airdrop support] to much more units.”

Whereas there isn’t any official timeline on which units will achieve assist and when, Nothing has stated it’s “exploring” including it, whereas Qualcomm “cannot wait” so as to add the function to its Snapdragon chips. Nevertheless, we do now know one Android machine that may assist AirDrop very quickly: the Samsung Galaxy S26.

AirDrop assist involves the Galaxy S26 collection

Samsung made the news official on March 22 (technically Monday, March 23 in Korea). At launch, AirDrop assist will solely work on the Galaxy S26 series, together with the Galaxy S26, Galaxy S26 Plus, and Galaxy S26 Extremely. That is a bummer for Galaxy S25 customers and earlier, however it’s potential Samsung will increase assist in time. In spite of everything, Google started rolling out AirDrop support for Pixel 9 devices late last month.

When you do have a Galaxy S26 machine, this function is stay proper now—in case you stay in Korea. Samsung says the function shall be rolling out to the U.S. later this week, however as of this writing, the replace is just accessible to Galaxy customers in Korea. (I will replace this piece when Samsung releases the replace for these of us within the U.S.)

Find out how to allow AirDrop assist in Fast Share on Galaxy

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In case you have an S26, and the replace has rolled out to you, you simply want to go to Settings > Software program replace (or System updates), then hit “Obtain and set up,” “Verify for system updates,” or “Verify for software program updates,” relying in your machine.

Then, as soon as your cellphone has the replace, you may must manually allow AirDrop assist for Fast Share—it will not simply seem in your cellphone. To take action, head to Settings > Related units > Fast Share, then toggle on the brand new “Share with Apple units” choice.

When you faucet the choice itself, you may discover a full description of the function, which you’ll or might not already know: The recipient must have their iPhone’s AirDrop settings set to “Everybody,” and once you need to obtain a file, you might want to open Fast Share in your finish. Samsung says your cellphone might briefly disconnect from wifi when on the lookout for or sharing to different iPhones.