how to nearby share from phone to laptop or pcHow to nearby share from phone to laptop or PC – For old timers, perhaps the easiest and most obvious way to file transfer between your mobile device to your computer is through a cable transfer— usually by using your charging cables. However, nowadays there have been far easier methods to do that without the need for a cable (and no, not through Bluetooth either, though, technically it still uses Bluetooth as a way to execute them) but through Google nearby share.
Nearby sharing is one of the newer Google, specifically Android, features that lets users transfer data between devices by utilising either Bluetooth or Wi-Fi. In the Apple ecosystem, the equivalent of Google’s Nearby Share is Apple’s AirDrop.
While both share basically the same functions which is to transfer files and documents between your mobile device to other devices and vice versa without the need for physical cables, the Google nearby share has a key feature that differs them from Apple’s counterpart; the ability to transfer between different platforms, even to MacOS devices.
This means that with near by share near.by, you can share files from your Android device to a nearby share PC through Windows nearby sharing, from Windows nearby sharing Mac or vice versa and so on and so forth. Eliminating the issue of being stuck in just one ecosystem and having to be fully committed to one of them.
While nearby share works on Windows, unfortunately, nearby share for PC Windows 7 might not be possible due to it being an “aged operating system”. However, Windows 10 nearby sharing Android or from 11 is easily possible thanks to Microsoft embedding the feature as the OS’ built-in feature.
To do that, first and foremost make sure your Android phone is connected to Wi-Fi with Bluetooth active as well as your computer is running with Windows 10 or 11 then follow these steps:
Transferring files to Mac and the other way around follows the same exact method. However, instead of Google’s official Nearby Share app, it needs “NearDrop”. The method is as follows:
With Google’s Nearby Share, it lets you share files between your Android devices to others including devices that run with MacOS. The Nearby for PC feature is now available by default to Windows 10 and 11 however you still need to download the required application to transfer back which can be seen in our tutorial steps.
Those who are looking for how to share files over Bluetooth in Windows site microsoft.com might also want to try Nearby Share. This is because in essence it basically accomplishes the same goal.
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