Now Pixel 9 Phones Can Transfer Files With Airdrop, Too

As pinch Pixel 10 phones, owners of (almost all) Pixel 9 phones will beryllium capable to nonstop and person files a small much easy pinch Apple devices. Files sent from a Pixel to an iPhone, Mac, aliases iPad will look arsenic AirDrop transfers. On nan Android side, files are handled done Quick Share. The receiving Apple instrumentality needs to beryllium discoverable to anyone — you tin group a ten-minute clip limit connected this — and nan Pixel likewise needs to beryllium discoverable to each aliases successful person mode. With that done, each that’s required is simply a pat to judge nan transportation and you’re connected your measurement to cross-platform-sharing-bliss.

That is, unless you’re nan proprietor of a Pixel 9A — you’ll request to usage plain Bluetooth aliases immoderate different old-fashioned method. I asked Google why nan 9A is excluded from AirDrop support, and communications head Alex Moriconi said only that they’re “looking guardant to improving nan acquisition and expanding it to much Android devices complete time.” So if you want to beryllium solid half afloat astir it, nan 9A could still beryllium included successful a early update. In nan meantime astatine least, I’m emotion beautiful optimistic that this AirDrop compatibility is sticking astir for nan long-term.