Quick Share for iOS and macOS might be in the works

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• Google might be working on a Quick Share app for Apple devices running iOS and macOS.
• While there’s no direct evidence of Google working on a Quick Share app, a code comment left by a Google engineer hints that it might be in development.
• The comment was left in code for the Nearby library, which is the core networking library used by Quick Share.

Quick Share is one of the best tools you can use to move files between Android phones as it’s preinstalled on most devices. It’s also preinstalled on most Chromebooks and can easily be installed on any Windows PC, too. However, one platform where it’s notably missing is iOS, which means you have to find another solution if you want to share files with anyone who has an iPhone. Thankfully, though, Google may finally be working on bringing Quick Share to iOS as well as macOS.

Google introduced Quick Share (formerly Nearby Share) in 2020. It’s a file-transfer service that lets you quickly move any number of files over a local network connection. It’s built on top of Nearby Connections, a peer-to-peer networking API that lets apps “easily discover, connect to, and exchange data with nearby devices in real-time, regardless of network connectivity.” The source code for Nearby Connections is available on GitHub under Google’s Nearby repository, which is regularly updated by engineers at Google to introduce new backend features and bug fixes.




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