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Samsung Shows Off New Quick Share in One UI 8, Should Come to Pixel Phones

Kellen May 28, 2025 1

As a part of the new One UI 8 beta update from Samsung, we're getting a brand new Quick Share experience that should end up on other Android phones, like Google's Pixel line. Since Google and Samsung teamed up to collaborate on Quick Share a little over a year...

Google’s Overhauled Quick Share UI Previewed

Tim April 18, 2025 4

Earlier this week, One UI 8 was previewed well ahead of release. Inside, an updated look at Quick Share was spotted, but now, we're getting to see it up and running on a Pixel device. It's easy to tell from looking that Google plans a big time overhaul for the...

Google, Please Release a Quick Share App for macOS

Kellen November 1, 2024 2

Google's Quick Share for Android that allows users to quickly share files between devices is a handy tool that has moved beyond just an Android-to-Android file transfer system. Over the past year, it changed names (formerly Nearby Share) and then released with...

Google and Samsung Announce “Quick Share” as Android’s File Sharing Service

Kellen January 9, 2024 13

This may sound like a vaguely familiar topic, because we touched on it in rumor form prior to Xmas, but we can now make it officially time to welcome in a new file sharing service to Android. At the time of that first report, it was being suggested that Google...

Report: Google, Samsung Join Forces to Merge Nearby Share and Quick Share

Tim December 22, 2023 12

Google has Nearby Share, its native P2P file sharing service for the Android ecosystem. Samsung has Quick Share, its own file sharing service, but made specifically for Samsung devices. In a weird twist of fate, it's getting reported that Google and Samsung...

Samsung’s Quick Share Could be an AirDrop Alternative, But It Better Do More Than This

Kellen January 23, 2020

I learned today that iPhone users really love AirDrop and use it constantly throughout a day. The ease with which they can share files from phone to computer and back again (or with people) is a productivity feature I wouldn't mind having in my life. As an...