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We asked, you told us: Plenty of you haven’t used Nearby Share before
June 22, 2025
Nearby Share is Android’s answer to AirDrop on iOS devices, promising a more seamless way to locally share content. The feature works with Android 6.0 devices and above, which means chances are good that you’ve got access to it.
We wanted to know whether you’ve used Nearby Share before and what you thought of it. So we posed this question onour website,Twitter account, andYouTube page. Here’s how you voted.
Have you used Nearby Share before?
The poll accrued just over 1,400 votes on the website, roughly 2,100 votes on Twitter, and 3,700 votes on YouTube. And it turns out that almost half of the voters across all three platforms haven’t used it yet.
It seems like the reason for these people not using it either boils down to them not knowing about it or a preference for other sharing options (e.g. OEM protocols, third-party apps, or internet-based sharing). Nevertheless, the proportion of users who haven’t used Nearby Share spans from 40% on theAndroid Authoritywebsite all the way to 55% on our YouTube poll.
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Almost 32% of respondents on average said they used Nearby Share and that it worked well, while almost 13% said that it was merely okay when they used it.
Finally, 6.42% of total polled readers said they used the sharing protocol before but that it worked poorly. Some reader comments pointed to issues like slow transfer speeds when sharing large video files and questionable reliability.
Looking at it another way, roughly 51% of all polled readers said they’d used Nearby Share before (regardless of how they felt about the feature) while ~49% said they hadn’t used it.
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