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How to Share Songs with Nearby Friends Using AirDrop on Your iPhone Share Any Password from Your iPhone to Other Apple Devices Use AirDrop to Share Photos, Contacts, & Other Files in iOS 7ħ Fun Galaxy S20 Features Everyone Should Know About Long pressing the tile will open up the 'Quick Share settings' page, which will let you change the name of your phone (ideally, you want to call it something identifiable so they know it you sending or receiving the file) and control who can share with you, either 'Everyone' or 'Contacts only.' For security reasons, you'll want to use 'Contacts only,' as we've seen in the past what happens when AirDrop is left on 'Everyone.'Īccess Your AirDrop Settings in iOS 11's New Control Center However, if for some reason you turned it off, open Quick Settings and find the 'Quick Share' tile. Quick Share should be on by default on your device. And best of all, it doesn't require an active data connection. The UI is simple to use and is available to all Samsung Galaxy phones running One UI 2.1 or higher (which at the time of this writing is the Galaxy S10e and newer). Samsung's Quick Share lets you share files with other Samsung smartphones.

With the Galaxy S20 and Galaxy Z Flip, Samsung hopes to correct this with 'Quick Share,' a file transfer system that still uses Wi-Fi Direct but makes it easier to use. Whereas Apple has AirDrop, Samsung's previous solution wasn't so obvious. Despite Samsung's long running support for Wi-Fi Direct, most users still struggle to transfer files between their devices.

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