Google and Samsung are quietly building a tap to share feature for Android that works a lot like Apple’s AirDrop. The idea is simple enough. You hold two phones close together, and files transfer between them without digging through share menus or hunting for a nearby device name.
According to Android Authority, evidence for the feature has been piling up across three separate places. It appears in Samsung’s One UI 9 builds, inside Google Play Services code, and even in Android 17 system files. Developers tracking these builds say the feature has been taking shape since late 2025, and it now looks like it’s heading toward a proper release rather than staying a Samsung experiment.
Samsung and Google are building it together
The tap to share feature first showed up in Samsung’s One UI 8.5 as a hidden Labs experiment. Now in One UI 9, it has its own name
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