Samsung’s Galaxy S26 phones will acquire the flexibility to make use of Apple’s AirDrop this week, permitting the corporate’s Galaxy phones to immediately share pictures and information with iPhone and Mac computer systems.

Samsung is announcing the new feature Sunday night time, which is able to have to be turned on from the cellphone’s settings menu. The function can be arriving in an replace to gadgets over the course of this week, and when it does, the Fast Share settings menu will acquire a Share with Apple gadgets toggle. 

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That is much like how AirDrop compatibility works with Google’s Pixel 10 phones, which gained the function in a software program replace final fall. Samsung says AirDrop compatibility will ultimately come to extra Galaxy telephones and is beginning with the S26 sequence.

Samsung says that the addition of AirDrop compatibility is supposed to assist with the corporate’s ongoing effort to have its telephones work with different working methods. And since Apple and Samsung often dominate the best-selling phone lists around the world, the flexibility to share pictures and media utilizing AirDrop and QuickShare might shortly change into ubiquitous. This could possibly be very true if Samsung expands this to its lower-cost cellphone lineup ultimately, such because the $200 Galaxy A17.