Android 11 beta will feature Google’s version of a popular iPhone feature

[Chris Smith]

• Android 11 beta includes a feature that many people have been asking for, a file-sharing option that allows users to share content with people nearby.
• The Share user interface contains a Nearby button that allows people to quickly share photos, documents, and links with people or devices close to the user.
• The feature might be similar to what’s already available on iPhone, iPad, and Mac. AirDrop lets users share files wirelessly between iOS and macOS devices in close proximity.

Google last week released the first public beta of Android 11, which can be installed on any supported devices right now, including the Pixel 4 and other compatible handsets. We already know what to expect from Google’s next major Android release, and the operating system will not provide any revolutionary features. However, there are plenty of neat improvements in Android 11 that will fans will immediately observe. One of them concerns notifications, which now focus on people more than anything else. In fact, the new Conversations section of the notifications screen is something that would work great on the iPhone as well. Android 11 will also pack a few features that are inspired by iOS. The now media controls and the screenshots features are two of them, but it’s the third one that fans will appreciate most. Android 11 finally brings to Android a feature that’s been available on iPhone for years. That’s the ability to share files with people and devices around you that iPhone and Mac users know as AirDrop.

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