How to Copy/Paste Between Android Devices and Chromebooks Quickly with Nearby Share - Gadget Hacks

While I similar Android successful my idiosyncratic life, I've had the accidental to enactment successful the Apple ecosystem. One of the coolest features I've travel to trust connected is AirDrop, which makes it casual to beam contented from mobile devices to desktops and vice versa. Thankfully, Android present has an equivalent.

After abandoning akin functionality (Android Beam), Google has taken strides to adjacent the spread successful interoperability betwixt devices with Nearby Share, released successful mid-2020, which enables record sharing betwixt Android devices and Chromebooks.

Android 13 brings a useful update to Nearby Share, which makes sharing contented betwixt devices adjacent easier. The caller quality allows you to transcript thing connected your Android 13 device, whether an image, file, text, oregon thing else, rapidly stock it with Nearby Share, and paste it straight into wherever you request it connected the receiving instrumentality moving Android 6 oregon later.

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And since September, Google has been rolling retired different diagnostic that automatically accepts requests connected receiving devices signed into the aforesaid Google relationship arsenic the sending instrumentality for a much seamless experience.

Nearby Share isn't conscionable for devices moving banal Android. It besides works large connected different devices, similar Samsung Galaxy models, for example.

Step 1: Ensure Nearby Share Is On

Nearby Share whitethorn beryllium turned disconnected connected your Android phone, but you tin crook it connected by going to Settings –> Google –> Devices & sharing –> Nearby Share –> Use Nearby Share. You tin besides alteration your device's sanction present if you privation thing much than a generic "[Your Name]'s phone."

If you person the Nearby Share tile added to your device's Quick Settings, you tin besides long-press that to get to the aforesaid Nearby Share settings to toggle the diagnostic on. The Quick Settings tile besides gives you speedy entree to whether everyone, contacts, oregon nary 1 tin spot your instrumentality with Nearby Share.

Step 2: Copy oregon Share Content connected the Sharing Device

On Android 12 and earlier, erstwhile you privation to stock something, you would find and property the Share button, past take Nearby Share from the sharing options. For example, erstwhile you item substance connected a webpage, you'd take "Share" from the contextual paper that appears to bring up the sharing options.

That inactive works connected Android 13, but you person different method to use: the Copy button. Whenever you item thing and deed Copy, you'll spot a thumbnail preview of it with a Share fastener adjacent to it. Tap that Share button, and deed the Nearby fastener connected the expanse that appears.

If you privation to alteration the substance earlier sharing it, pat the preview and a strategy substance exertion volition look wherever you tin tweak things and deed "Done" to instrumentality to the Share button.

Android 13's implementation for copied substance is akin to however it works for screenshots connected Android 6 and newer. When you instrumentality a screenshot, its thumbnail appears with a Share fastener beside it — pat that, past Nearby.

Step 3: Choose the Receiving Device

After you unfastened the Nearby Share menu, prime the instrumentality wherever you privation to paste the content. (If the instrumentality isn't showing, marque definite you person Nearby Sharing enabled via your Quick Setting panel.)

Step 4: Accept the Request connected the Receiving Device

On the receiving device, pat "Accept" to proceed the transaction. After the contented beams over, prime "Copy" oregon "Copy to Clipboard" to implicit the transfer.

If you've received the latest update, your receiving instrumentality should automatically judge the sharing request. For example, if you're sharing a photo, the receiving instrumentality whitethorn beryllium capable to download it adjacent erstwhile it's locked, and past you tin presumption it successful your downloads folder oregon unfastened it successful an app from the notification.

Step 5: Paste Text oregon Images connected Receiving Device

If you're sharing copied content, unfastened the app connected the receiving instrumentality wherever you privation to paste the content.

On your receiving device, unfastened the app wherever you privation to paste the content. For text, long-press successful a substance tract and prime Paste from the pop-up menu. You whitethorn request to unfastened the keyboard's clipboard to paste images into a papers oregon app. If your receiving instrumentality is simply a Chromebook, conscionable property Control-V unneurotic for substance oregon images.

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