After a monumental update allowed Galaxy S26 phones to share with Apple’s iOS devices using AirDrop, some users are reporting that shared images are missing location and camera data.
AirDrop has traditionally been a proprietary system within the same category as iMessage, which has proven to be a barrier to communication between iOS and Android devices. That has started to change recently, when Samsung launched the first version of Android AirDrop compatibility. The feature is limited to Galaxy S26 series devices for now as it is in the early stages.
Proof of Quick Share’s AirDrop infancy lies in recent reports that images shared from Galaxy phones to iOS devices are missing metadata. The report from weeks ago comes from Samsung official. community forumwhere a user notices that their shared images are missing location and lens data.
Samsung responded to the initial complaint and noted that the company is working on a fix for Quick Share. They confirmed that during AirDrop sharing with Galaxy phones “location information is not transmitted when sharing files with Apple devices.” As for the lens data, Samsung says it is still investigating whether this is a more widespread problem. Another user in that thread confirms that lens data is missing.
It’s been some time since this issue was first posted on the Samsung forum. According SamMobileShared images are still missing location data. The lens information, on the other hand, seems to remain pending during the file transfer.
At the time of writing, we were unable to confirm this ourselves. Samsung is expected to fix the AirDrop location bug on Galaxy phones soon. Still, it’s a new Quick Share feature that took quite a while to appear on Android devices. Some errors are to be expected. Hopefully, it all stops there.
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