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AirDrop Support Rolling Out to Samsung Galaxy S26 Devices This Week

AirDrop support is coming to Samsung's Quick Share feature on Galaxy S26 devices this week, allowing owners to directly share files and media with iPhones and Macs.

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In a Sunday newsroom announcement, Samsung said the rollout is starting today in Korea, with devices in the U.S. to follow later this week. The feature will expand to more regions and on more Galaxy devices at a later date, including Canada, Latin America, Europe, Southeast Asia, Hong Kong, Japan, and Taiwan.

Owners of Galaxy S26, S26 Plus, and S26 Ultra devices will need to enable the feature in their phone's Quick Share settings menu, using a new Share with Apple devices toggle.

Last November, Google announced Quick Share compatibility with AirDrop on Pixel phones. The feature was initially limited to the newest Pixel 10 devices, but has since been expanded to the Pixel 9, Pixel 9 Pro, Pixel 9 Pro XL, and Pixel 9 Pro Fold.

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cicalinarrot Avatar
9 hours ago at 03:43 am
Wish Apple just helped developing open standards, or at least established a reasonable period of exclusive usage of their technology and then let others in or adopt an open standard if it has caught up with their own.
I mean, the EU had to force them to drop their silly connector.
Score: 6 Votes (Like | Disagree)
HouseLannister Avatar
9 hours ago at 04:14 am

EU didn't force something like that yet
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/11/the-eu-made-apple-adopt-new-wi-fi-standards-and-now-android-can-support-airdrop/
Score: 5 Votes (Like | Disagree)
wohmiguel Avatar
9 hours ago at 04:08 am

Wish Apple just helped developing open standards, or at least established a reasonable period of exclusive usage of their technology and then let others in or adopt an open standard if it has caught up with their own.
I mean, the EU had to force them to drop their silly connector.
They have helped develop open standards. They helped with the development of USB-C, literally pioneered the acceptance of Wi-Fi, took part in creating the Matter smart home standard... does them wanting to have something for themselves with their own devices immediately downplay every other stride they've made?

These are features of convenience. They should be treated as such.
Score: 5 Votes (Like | Disagree)
winxmac Avatar
9 hours ago at 03:39 am

Surprised Apple didn't block this yet over privacy concerns
Apple will not be able to block this if the EU forced them to use an open standard for Apple devices which is why Google and Samsung are now able to integrate the AirDrop functionality that some/most android users are envious of.

There are still some Apple-exclusive features that cannot be replicated by its competition.
Score: 5 Votes (Like | Disagree)
9 hours ago at 04:10 am
Samsung had a feature they called “bumping”.

Bumping uglies is how viruses are spread. [emoji1787]
Score: 4 Votes (Like | Disagree)
HouseLannister Avatar
7 hours ago at 05:31 am

This is disgusting. Absolutely disgusting. This isn't a win for consumers, this sort of nonsense will actually discourage Apple from innovating. Whats the point if your technology is going to be stolen and copied anyway?
Might as well say you only want Macs to only access the Apple Internet and not the rest of the web. And iPhones should only be able to text other iPhones. Interoperability is a good thing.
Score: 3 Votes (Like | Disagree)