Google recently showed how Pixel 10 devices could share files to iPhones using AirDrop. Here's how you can use this feature with Macs and iPads, too.

The short version is that Google effectively built its own compatible implementation of the underlying AirDrop discovery and transfer behavior. It uses the same kinds of signals—Bluetooth LE for discovery, peer-to-peer Wi-Fi for the actual transfer—and wraps it in a security-hardened layer that Apple devices are willing to talk to.

Wireless file transfers between Android and iPhone are here, with Quick Share starting to become AirDrop-compatible.