Your Pixel 8 phone is almost ready for AirDrop support

• Some Pixel 8 series owners report that their phones have received the Quick Share Extension app.
• This app is required for AirDrop interoperability on Android phones.
• The feature isn’t active on Pixel 8 phones yet, so you might have to wait a while to share files with iPhones via AirDrop.

Google surprised the tech world last year when it announced that Quick Share on the Pixel 10 series would support Apple’s AirDrop feature. This meant Pixel 10 owners and iPhone users could natively share files with each other. This functionality has since arrived on the Pixel 9 series and several other Android phones, but it now looks like Google is gearing up to bring this to the Pixel 8 range.

Users on the pixel_phones subreddit (h/t: PiunikaWeb) report that they’re seeing the Quick Share Extension app on the Pixel 8a and Pixel 8 Pro. These users apparently received the app after the April or May system updates. This app is a prerequisite for Quick Share/AirDrop interoperability.