Google announced its plans to bring Nearby Share—its AirDrop competitor—to Windows at CES 2022. It’s been a year since, and the company has released the Nearby Share app, as promised, on Windows.

Transferring files between an Android smartphone and a Windows PC is something many of us do regularly. While using a USB cable is the most common method, it’s not always convenient or even possible ...

Sharing files between iPhone and Android is still a hassle. There is no single method I can point to that will be available for everyone to share files between these devices. I recently started using ...

This tutorial shows how to share files between mobile and PC using Phone Link in Windows 11. Phone Link app lets you connect a Windows PC to a mobile device to access and view photos, make phone calls ...

[Update February 23rd, 2024: This article refers to the feature as “Quick Share.” It was previously called “Nearby Share,” so if you’re looking for that feature, it’s been renamed. However, the ...

Nearby sharing is a useful feature that was carried over from Windows 10 to Windows 11. It allows you to easily transfer files and items between different Windows PCs, like laptops or desktops. This ...

I thought my old setup was fine, until this changed everything.

Unveiled back in 2020, Google's Nearby Share provided a way for people to share files between different Android devices. Now, the company is enhancing the feature to include Windows in the mix. In a ...

I’m an image goblin. I can’t help it: I see something funny or cute, and I’ll scrape it from the internet to share with friends and family, far and wide. But I often forget that I saved the image to a ...

iPhone users have had AirDrop to easily send files between all Apple devices. With Quick Share, Android devices and Windows PCs can enjoy the same type of easy sharing. This intuitive feature, also ...