What you need to know
- Quick Share support with AirDrop is finally expanding beyond Pixel and Galaxy phones to more Android devices.
- Oppo Find X9 Ultra and Vivo X300 Ultra have started receiving AirDrop sharing support.
- You need to enable AirDrop visibility on iPhone for Android devices to detect and share files seamlessly.
Google provided support for file sharing using Android Quick Share with Apple AirDrop to its Pixel phones last year, and now it looks like the company is finally expanding the feature to more Android devices.
Since Google introduced Quick Share with AirDrop support on the Pixel 10 series, we’ve been waiting for it to appear on more phones. Since then, it has expanded to Pixel 9 series and more recently appeared in the Galaxy S26 line also.
Samsung even pushed it to the Galaxy S25 series with A user interface Update 8.5. But outside of Pixel and Samsung devices, there hasn’t been much movement so far.
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Oppo launched the Find X9 Ultra last week with the promise that AirDrop support would roll out soon, and it looks like that has already started happening. I was able to test this myself, sending and receiving files between the Oppo Find X9 Ultra and an iPhone Air without any problems.
When you open the Quick Share settings on Find X9 Ultra, there is now a banner confirming that AirDrop file sharing is available. It also shows a quick guide explaining how to use it, which mainly involves enabling AirDrop on the iPhone and setting visibility to ‘Everyone’ for 10 minutes.
Once this is done, the iPhone appears in the Quick Share menu on Android. You can also receive files in the same way by setting your Android device’s visibility accordingly.
my colleague Harish Jonnalagadda You could also use this function on your Vivo X300 Ultrawhich means it’s clearly expanding beyond Pixel and Samsung phones. We haven’t seen it reach devices like the OnePlus 15 yet, and neither OnePlus nor Google have confirmed anything about it.
Still, it’s great to finally see this feature being rolled out more widely. It makes sharing photos, videos, and files between Android and iPhone much easier without the need for third-party apps. We’ll keep you posted as it continues to expand to more devices.
Android Central’s opinion
I tested this feature myself and it works surprisingly well. It’s still a little slower than native AirDrop to AirDrop sharing or even Android to Android sharing, but the fact that this feature exists and is expanding beyond Pixel and Galaxy phones is a big win for Android users.
