{"id":263018,"date":"2026-06-03T10:27:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T14:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/03\/these-android-phones-can-use-airdrop-with-iphone-mac\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T10:35:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T14:35:10","slug":"these-android-phones-can-use-airdrop-with-iphone-mac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/03\/these-android-phones-can-use-airdrop-with-iphone-mac\/","title":{"rendered":"These Android phones can use AirDrop with iPhone, Mac"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/2026\/06\/03\/android-airdrop-list-of-supported-devices\/?extended-commentsu003d1\">These Android phones can use AirDrop with iPhone, Mac<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/2026\/06\/03\/android-airdrop-list-of-supported-devices\/?extended-commentsu003d1\">https:\/\/9to5google.com\/2026\/06\/03\/android-airdrop-list-of-supported-devices\/?extended-commentsu003d1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-03 10:27:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"9to5google.com\">9to5google.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Google cracked the code on making Android\u2019s Quick Share feature work with Apple\u2019s AirDrop, and the list of compatible devices continues to grow. Here\u2019s every Android device currently compatible with AirDrop.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-711170\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In November 2025, Google surprise-launched support for AirDrop through Quick Share on the Pixel 10 series. The feature was built without Apple\u2019s insight, and works across iPhones, iPads, and even MacBooks. As of the past couple of months, it\u2019s expanding, with Pixel 9 series devices added in February, and Samsung models adding support in March and April.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To get things going, both parties will need to switch their devices to \u201cEveryone\u201d mode, as contact sharing doesn\u2019t work across platforms. Once the receipient has done this, though, their device should immediately show up to nearby Android phones looking to share a file, photo, video, or whatever else.<\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Pixel\u2019s 10 AirDrop Update: this is not real\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/K0GKb6ne1U8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The process is pretty seamless from there, working just as you\u2019d expect AirDrop or Quick Share to work in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>\t<span class=\"outbrain-ad-label\">Advertisement &#8211; scroll for more content<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Pixel devices, AirDrop is enabled always, but Samsung does add a toggle to make the feature optional.<\/p>\n<p><img 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class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As mentioned, though, this is all device-dependent for the time being. You\u2019ll need to wait for your Android device to be compatible with AirDrop, as only a select few are at this point in time. There are some Android devices that have built AirDrop-like solutions as a stopgap, but those aren\u2019t the same thing as this.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The list below details each Android device that works with AirDrop over Quick Share, and we\u2019ll be updating it as more are added.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"h-google-pixel-phones-that-work-with-airdrop\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Google Pixel phones that work with AirDrop<\/h2>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Pixel 10<\/li>\n<li>Pixel 10 Pro<\/li>\n<li>Pixel 10 Pro XL<\/li>\n<li>Pixel 10 Pro Fold<\/li>\n<li>Pixel 10a<\/li>\n<li>Pixel 9<\/li>\n<li>Pixel 9 Pro<\/li>\n<li>Pixel 9 Pro XL<\/li>\n<li>Pixel 9 Pro Fold<\/li>\n<li><strong>New:<\/strong> Pixel 9a<\/li>\n<li><strong>New: <\/strong>Pixel&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/2026\/06\/03\/android-airdrop-list-of-supported-devices\/?extended-commentsu003d1\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These Android phones can use AirDrop with iPhone, Mac https:\/\/9to5google.com\/2026\/06\/03\/android-airdrop-list-of-supported-devices\/?extended-commentsu003d1 Publish Date: 2026-06-03 10:27:00 Source&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":263019,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/9to5google.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/11\/airdrop-quick-share-pixel-10.jpg?resize=1200%2C628&quality=82&strip=all&ssl=1","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[70,72,86],"class_list":["post-263018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-android","tag-google","tag-pixel","tag-samsung"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263018"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263018"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":263020,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263018\/revisions\/263020"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}