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.

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 ...

[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 ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. When you need to transfer large files, there are several apps that can help. When you need to transfer large ...

Microsoft wants you to use the cloud, but there are a lot of good options — including trusty old network file sharing and a little-known modern Windows feature. Remember the HomeGroup on Windows 7?

Sometimes you have no other choice but to share a large document from your Mac to a PC over a network. Here's how to get file sharing working between macOS Tahoe and Windows. Apple's ecosystem is a ...

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 ...

Android and iPhone users can now share files quickly and easily. Currently, only Pixel 10 phones support the feature. Google says it will expand the tech to other Android devices. I use an iPhone as ...

To transfer the ownership of OneDrive files or folders, use these steps: Using the account that currently hosts the files you'd like to transfer, create a parent folder (a new folder that you can ...

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 ...

File sharing between devices can feel complicated if you’ve never given it much thought. But, in reality, that couldn’t be further from the truth. Quick Share makes sending and receiving whatever ...