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Quick Share’s little-known shortcut lets you share to another Android phone by tapping it

Google’s Quick Share has been an important part of Android for a few years now, but it still has a few hidden tricks, including the ability to trigger sharing by simply tapping the phone you want to share to.

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Google’s Quick Share has been an important part of Android for a few years now, but it still has a few hidden tricks, including the ability to trigger sharing by simply tapping the phone you want to share to. Yesterday, a fresh One UI 9 leak showcased a (seemingly) new “Tap to Share” gesture planned for Samsung’s upcoming Android 17 update this summer, with prior leaks having pointed to this feature coming to Android devices at large.

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Google’s Quick Share has been an important part of Android for a few years now, but it still has a few hidden tricks, including the ability to trigger sharing by simply tapping the phone you want to share to.

Why it matters

Yesterday, a fresh One UI 9 leak showcased a (seemingly) new “Tap to Share” gesture planned for Samsung’s upcoming Android 17 update this summer, with prior leaks having pointed to this feature coming to Android devices at large. One reader, @LBPHeretic on Twitter , tagged us this morning to draw our attention to a semi-secret function buried within Quick Share that basically allows the old Android Beam-esque tap to share functionality to continue working.

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This isn’t new, to be clear — this functionality has existed within Quick Share since it was actually referred to as Nearby Share. A comment on three-year-old Reddit thread explains it perfectly: if you tap the backs of two Android devices together while one is attempting to share a file through Quick Share, it should automatically begin the transfer process, just as Android Beam worked way back in the day. Believe it or not, tech publications — including 9to5Google — actually reported on this way back in 2021, but considering how fast this space moves, it’s understandable that a relatively obscure file sharing trick would, you know, eventually disappear from the public consciousness.

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