Quick Share
data transfer utility by Samsung and Google
Quick Share is a wireless peer-to-peer data transfer service for Android, ChromeOS and Windows. Originally developed by Samsung Electronics for its own devices, Google subsequently collaborated with Samsung and merged its own Nearby Share into Quick Share in 2024, distributing Quick Share to non-Galaxy Android devices through Google Play Services and releasing a Windows app for non-Galaxy PCs.
Quick Share utilizes Bluetooth and Wi-Fi Direct to send files to nearby devices. Samsung devices can send to distant recipients through the Samsung Cloud.
History
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Usage
Users can send files to up to 8 nearby devices at a time, so long as they have the feature enabled and their screens are on. Quick Share can be toggled in the quick panel settings and the user can choose to receive content from anyone nearby, contacts only, your devices, or no one. Content transfer is made possible by choosing Quick Share, after which the sender chooses which nearby device(s) to send to.
Quick Share can upload files to Samsung Cloud and sharing via URL. The data uploaded to the Samsung Cloud can be downloaded by the user either by clicking the specified link or scanning the provided QR code. Uploaded files are limited to 10 gigabytes in size, and can remain in Samsung Cloud for a maximum of two days.
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This entry incorporates text from “Quick Share” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.