Airdrop vs Quick Share vs Nearby Share Speed Test - Which One is Faster? (S21 Ultra vs 12 Pro Max)

[@LetrixAR]

I hope Nearby Share gets widely adopted

[@Arandomguyat1]

it will

[@rapiddu6482]

It will be because now it is available on every android 10 or later android version regardless of the phone brand.

[@Ammar.Al-Mahrouqi]

@@rapiddu6482 I have it in my s7 edge (Android 8/Oreo).

[@rapiddu6482]

@@Ammar.Al-Mahrouqi that's awesome bro. Thanks for clarifying.

[@AdexOne4real]

It's available on android 6 upward

[@malfunchan]

One thing to note is nearby share uses data for small files, Wi-Fi network if both phones are connected to the same network, and Wi-Fi direct if both are absent. That's the reason why Wi-Fi only took the same time as offline because you weren't connected to Wi-Fi. Airdrop uses UWB for the phones that supports it (iPhone 11 and up, Wi-Fi for older ones) to send files but it encrypts them on-the-fly AFAIK. The technology is faster, but the encryption makes it slower.

[@beogradgagi]

🙏

[@xandudex]

remark, nearby share is encrypted too)

[@Julian-sj5tr]

Who the hell transmits data without encryption. Btw encryption won't affect performance nowadays. Encryption always faster than airdropping. If you know, phone keep encrypting every second, because it encrypt all the data.

[@mr_bappo]

UWB may be more energy efficient, but it is by absolutely no means faster than wifi. The U1 chip used in apple's devices, for example, a bit more than 2x slower than S23's wifi.

[@romatawazu8038]

Nearby share is one of the best addition to android. I wish Share it will be gone and forgotten

[@DinoRodriguez]

Nearby Share is incredible. I use it all the time with a few friends and even with two other individuals who didn't even know they were able to do "AirDrop" smh.

[@GTAandApplechannel]

And ironical the slowest one is name QuickShare

[@nope6786]

Nearby share is a rip off of airdrop. It a,ways has been and always will be

[@GTAandApplechannel]

@@nexustom5823 Android to android

[@Cosplayinghuman]

@@nope6786 so?

[@JohnDoe-qj3iv]

@@nope6786 And airdrop is a ripoff of share it. It always has been and always will be..

[@romatawazu8038]

It would be better if they integrated it on windows too 😄

[@khushboomalviya3693]

Samsung would do this for sure

[@gooff1111]

Samsung and Microsoft working on it

[@romatawazu8038]

I am hoping for android in general not just Samsung 😃

[@anj1300]

google wants to replace windows to chromebooks

[@SUNGOLDSV]

@@romatawazu8038 it's available on every Android device running version 6 and above iirc. Source: I have been using it a lot among my friends and family

[@JoVERICAIN]

Data is rather used for small files if the coverage is good enough. Never for a 1GB file.

[@IDTR]

True

[@Fahad789Gem]

@@IDTR but what kind of data speeds do you have it took 20 seconds for a gigabyte which is 50 Megabytes or 400 Mbps

[@Vaibhavgawai2011]

@@Fahad789Gem haha thats what I'm also thinking 😂😂😂

[@androidtv4764]

@@Fahad789Gem It was still using Peer-Peer connection to transfer data.

[@QuirkyDreamer]

@@Vaibhavgawai2011 It uses the wifi-direct tech that's also called peer-to-peer. (But uses the name NearbyShare) The point is vivo realme oppo & Mi use their own nearby type share that's why samsung used 'quickshare' just not to be groupedout instead samsung users can always use wifi direct thats way more faster!

[@computernerdinside]

The name "AirDrop" does roll off the tongue better.

[@tughloksiddiquee1714]

True, would of been better if Android gave NBS a better name.

[@adityashukla7849]

I extensively use nearby share whenever sharing files. I would love to see nearby share on all type of desktop OSs as well.

[@hardarassingh934]

Your wish got fulfilled brother

[@Julian-sj5tr]

Now you can download it

[@shogun_68]

I hate how Nearby share is a 2 step process. The sender and receiver has to both go turn it on.

[@IDTR]

There's an update coming soon that will allow you to change the visibility to Everyone so you won't need to do this in the future

[@JoshYxVdM]

I don't mind this, it's a 2 second job to turn it on in quick toggles as the receiver. And you don't have to turn anything on as the sender.

[@NoName-st2jl]

@illusioner. _ ehmm share it.

[@procrastimate1956]

Yeah when you're OS is this open sacrifices must be made

[@ForWhhY]

Safety reasons!!!?

[@ShivanshThapliyal]

Haha, It''s 2024 Nearby Share is now integrated with Quick Share under the brand name Quick Share. In other words Quick Share is now the default of every android.

[@SoCloudy]

What's more interesting is that Apple's Air Drop used to suck when it first came out, unlike Nearby Share. I'm really looking forward to see how Google improves it and makes it faster

[@sadatnafis2032]

I dont think nearby share is going to get any better, because I have a suspection that they might use very simmilar techniques and technology.

[@SoCloudy]

@@sadatnafis2032 I mean they could make a custom chip to make it faster (maybe for the Pixel) but what's great about NS is that it works on all Android devices

[@sadatnafis2032]

Also airdrop came out like 9 years ago (nearby share like 1 year ago) so it makes sense it would be bad in the very begining. But I think it got better fair quick cause Ive heard many use airdrop and love it.

[@itstrending8440]

@@sadatnafis2032 true but now Google being on this we definitely can expect new features and faster Software let's hope🤞

[@nope6786]

But now airdrop is a lot better and nearby share is just a copy of airdrop

[@shak273]

name: *quick* share speed: *slowest*

[@inhhung7133]

I love how apple named their products

[@MrAmad3us]

So the one with quick in the name is the slowest

[@zay9450]

Righhht and the fact that they copy iPhone is lovely 🤡

[@zay9450]

@woof woof oh oki ❤️

[@thecredulousone3845]

@woof woof This article's tone or style may not reflect the encyclopedic tone used on Wikipedia. Nearby Share on Android Developer(s) Google LLC. Initial release August 4, 2020 Operating system Android 6 and later Platform Android Chrome OS 2 more rows Wikipedia is free btw ❤️

[@zekiz774]

@woof woof That's not true. It's a relatively new feature from last year. Android copies iOS and iOS copies android. In the end both users are profiting so I don't understand the whole OS war.

[@zekiz774]

@@zay9450 Coping make a product better. The users wanted something like nearby share in Android, they get it. The users of iOS wants widgets, and an app drawer, they get it. Both sides are profiting, so stop the whole "this company did it first" thing. It doesn't matter who was first.

[@johnsecret1318]

We used quickshare with my friends that has samsung devices and it's pretty fast than nearby share. Huge files like movies are so much faster with quick share than on nearby share

[@kareemalaridi2580]

Interesting content, love it.

[@mrnobody9847]

Do you know music name

[@arturomelendezgarcia8823]

A video I didn’t know I needed to watch !

[@AndrewGiddingsWA]

Interesting test. As a former Android user and now Apple user, the biggest difference for me is the fact that Airdrop works with more people around me and more devices.

[@AndrewGiddingsWA]

@Corom Jones That’s good to hear. I only switched about a as year ago. I think my frustration came with people not knowing how to use it and being surrounded with a greater number of Apple users.

[@AndrewGiddingsWA]

@Corom Jones Ah. That was one of the main reasons I switched. I hated waiting for updates and the improvements that came with them. I always had LG and Samsung flagships, but typically had to wait almost a year for a new version. I don’t recall if I had Android 11 or not. Nevertheless, I’m glad transfers work more smoothly on newer Android phones now.

[@gmokoena2882]

You could have just used ShareIt. You can share between android and iOS

[@zhusikuqi8147]

@@gmokoena2882 ShareIT is literally shit. Too much ads. There are better alternatives that work just as well as ShareIT, if not, better.

[@gmokoena2882]

@@zhusikuqi8147 true remember though nothing is for free. Thus any other alternatives will end up having more ads the more they are used. I don't ShareIt. When I did I had an ad blocker. My main problem was it always running in the background, turning on my Bluetooth constantly.

[@MuhammadYasir-2526]

For quick share you should use both s21 series phones to get faster speeds. They have UWB chip inside. S10+ uses WiFi for transfer.

[@GTAandApplechannel]

Then why the wifi option for nearby share and Air drop is faster

[@PratikShastrakar]

This is the speed test that makes sense Unlike which phone opens apps faster like (milliseconds) :)

[@IDTR]

Thanks bro for sharing your opinion

[@jorgepastrana1639]

Great video. The most amazing thing its the fact that Airdrop is since iPhone 5 (I don't know if others before iPhone 5 too), and it works over all apple products. Now other companies has been released similar features. But in my opinion Airdrop is the king

[@feuerherz007]

So what? Android has Bluetooth file send support since forever and you can send files via Bluetooth to windows pc.. linux pc.. litteraly every Os. With apple only crap ios eco shiit is supported lol just because they dont want you to buy something else

[@imtherealvict1m]

@@feuerherz007 just completely forget about Bluetooth file send if your sending anything slightly large and aren’t ready to wait way way way longer than almost all other wireless file transfer options, the fact is with Apple sometimes they might take a bit longer to introduce a feature than other phones but when they do they perfect it almost all the time where as with androids I like to think of them as beta phones for iPhones, Apple waits for androids to test out a feature and if its a good feature that people like then they’ll bring the feature to iPhones and then they’ll perfect like they have with everything else

[@feuerherz007]

@@imtherealvict1m uhm no. Bluetooth is still great for sending pictures across any device PCs, everything. Android has nearby share which is actually faster then air drop. But the great thing it also has Bluetooth to connect to any hardware that doesnt run android.. apple is like they see whats out there, steal good things and make them only compatible with their own brand. Its copying on high level. No inoveation, nothing good for the end user

[@castoniox]

​@@feuerherz007FUCK with Bluetooth and nearby share, because android has to many manufacturer for low end devices it's doesn't get better for sharing files using nearby share. meanwhile airdrop easily and faster for transfer speed

[@rudeviper]

Nearby share is amazing. Airdrop is a gimmick in the vast market Like India. No one really uses an iPhone so who will you airdrop to.

[@danielj.3326]

You call it a gimmick, because no one in india uses it?? India isn't the whole world mate. Ask that in america. Lol.

[@rudeviper]

@@danielj.3326 You answered it too! US is not the whole world. iPhones are popular mostly in us. Android has 85 percent plus Market share. And I am talking about that 85 percent. How easily US youtubers mention Airdrop and iMessage when comparing to android when whole world is on WhatsApp telegram and signal. Apple's software is bloated with apple softwares. Majority of iOS users still use chrome and Google photos amd Google maps. Why give it pre installed when people are not using it. Most of the apples features are gimmicky because of this. Android has features that is scalable to 85 percent of people using smartphone. Btw India has all type of users and way bigger userbase than us.

[@danielj.3326]

@@rudeviper I am giving you an example. And that 85% means nothing. There a tons of phones, even phone replicas that runs android. It’s an open source os, while ios isn’t. You can’t compare them. And no they are not popular mostly in us. Even in china apple got 20% market share in q4 2020.

[@rizkyramdhanitaken]

@@danielj.3326 i think what he meant by gimmick is practically useless since there is noone to share.

[@anmol3457]

@@danielj.3326 Who said India was the whole world? OP didn't say it , who said it then?

[@mamathis_]

I use AirDrop on my iPhone, MacBook and with my friends everyday !! It's beautiful! 😍

[@fipsi04]

true

[@GIRONSTYLE]

facts

[@silverwoodlawn4913]

The Nearby Share has a lot of potential to improve, for example maybe a few less taps. AirDrop is the quickest when combined with the selection-time.

[@genxstar]

Yeah when you have unique product to maintain , you can always focus and optimise it to core .

[@silverwoodlawn4913]

@@genxstar I think Samsung should give up on their own version of apps and UI and should go with everything from google, i.e stock android, G-suite and connection options like Nearby Share instead of QuickShare etc.

[@genxstar]

@@silverwoodlawn4913 it's not ui only ,there is tons of android OEMs out there ,each using gms and nearby share ,not everyone has a ufs 3.x storage technology for high r/w ,not everyone support 5ghz or 5g tech for high speed transfer rate neither all have similar implementation of APIs ,some are on 28,29,30 ...

[@silverwoodlawn4913]

@@genxstar but we're seeing an improvement from Google regarding the updates. I just hope every company drops all the usless bloat and just use the near-stock, if not the stock, android. They can bring on subtle features into their UIs; they don't have to change the whole feel tbh.

[@MaxCE]

@@silverwoodlawn4913 Google is trying to fix this by introducing material design yet Samsung's implementation is quite lackluster, I love OneUI yet the stock android has its perks

[@VinayKumar-vu3en]

I used nearby share a couple of months ago and I haven't switched since then!!

[@rajpawar9343]

Samsung has updated Quick share on Android 11. It's faster than earlier. Plus it also works on Windows.

[@cs_photoshoot1982]

Amazing android and iOS are at same speed 😵 ❣️😍Love from India😍❣️

[@sharathshaiva]

I am using nearby share since release and I'm really loving it❤️

[@sharanvelambath4709]

AirDrop does have a way to send via Bluetooth. There’s no option for it, but if both the devices are disconnected from WiFi, it’ll transfer over Bluetooth

[@___v___7024]

Meee waiting 5 minutes to transfer 1gb files 😂😂

[@unbeatable009]

Just discovered you're channel, a Great review my man. I must say you are very underrated I hope your channel boom ASAP.

[@puneet7768]

I wish there was a common and universal way to transfer files via wifi on all the devices like smartphones, TVs, consoles, tablets, laptops etc.

[@muzaffarabasov]

In my personal experience Nearby Share has been very unreliable and 2-3 times slower than Quickshare (when it worked).

[@nithinrajendran3091]

ironic how the nearby share works faster than quick share on a samsung device

[@RalphRaj]

Thanks for this comparison, it really helps.

[@IDTR]

You're most welcome

[@Shimeih]

Preferences aside these speeds are just bonkus to me🤯🤯not many years ago transferring a 1gb file from ssd to a flagship laptop would take 3 or 4 times slower than this. Wow

[@RicardoReyes]

There's also the tapping the 2 Android devices back to back for nfc transfer. It was called Android beam then Google disabled it but now it's back.

[@RicardoReyes]

@illusioner. _ I honestly am unsure. I have a pixel and so I know how to do it there. But if I had to guess, it is probably where you enable the NFC and then just try it with another phone that has NFC enabled

[@gauravbisht4504]

Back in 2012, i used to share the Windows 7 ISO file via bluetooth from Samsung to My Yuphoria, used to fail after 30 mins and we are here now.

[@adazudiara4496]

The music was lil too loud for my taste.. but the content was unique. 👏👏

[@atabaksadr1146]

I recently tested these with 2.1 GB movie, Quickshare was 30 sec, Airdrop 43 sec, Shareit 8 minutes, Nearbyshare 5 Minutes!!! and tested it multiple times too...I think it was a very weird Result!

[@theflyer1]

Am I the only one who uses WiFi-direct? That's even faster way to transfer large files between Samsungs. 🤷🏾‍♂️🏃💨

[@lowkey_out]

Every android above Oreo has nearby share now I think, people can't still be using lower android phones like it's 2021, I really hope people start using it like.. it makes life so much easier

[@AdexOne4real]

Great comparison again, you've once done a similar video and it seems google has done a ton of optimization behind the scene on nearby share

[@pickachublast8]

I love the organization of this video! Thank you for the tests, that's good to know!

[@amirtorhan2762]

From my experience quick share is usually lot faster than nearby share

[@SpDegreat]

Me too

[@omarbsalama]

Amazing video Emad!

[@IDTR]

Thanks Omar

[@WireSniffer]

Please lower the music volume, and raise your speech volume, otherwise interesting video thanks.

[@chesareg8217]

Damn, AirDrop is just amazing, the simplest and the fastest. I didn't expect it to be so fast

[@GeorgKevinPaquet]

There never can't be any video that includes Android and iOS where their respective fans won't fight.

[@m.hussam]

Hey there, mate! just found your channel. Glad someone from home is pushing to compete in the global KZbin Tech scene. Subscribed!

[@IDTR]

Thanks Muhammad for the support, really appreciated

[@atabaksadr1146]

I really wanted a video like this, Great video!!!!

[@SriHari722]

The best KZbinr. Love from India ❤️

[@komanga]

Iam indian🤙

[@SukhES]

Back then was wifi direcct.. You share to any phone. Near by share is still same. But cannot share with older devices. Funnu thing is you share anything from old phones to new because new phone have wifi direct but option is replaced with near by share from gallery from wifi direct.

[@faheemmengal7050]

I newly adopted nearby shair. And i loving it

[@thanasis7oropos]

I don't know what this video is about. I just tapped cause I liked the watch.

[@Shadow__X]

The bottom bezel on the S21 is now as thin as the bezel of the iPhones, apple needs to renew the design soon...

[@baronmordo5553]

Thinner*

[@kunalsakulkar926]

I love this design of apple.. I wont mind if i had to use this design forever 💯. Just my personal opinion

[@Jason74357]

Look at the Chinese phones bezels thinner then s21

[@Shadow__X]

@@Jason74357 yeah, sure but they often use Samsung panels anyway, meaning Samsung is able to make them and could use similar panels in their own devices, also the S21 bezels are so thin that you don't need them thinner anyway... While apple is still struggling to get features that android had from the start or at least earlier, widgets for example took basically a decade to arrive on iOS

[@Theflexstudiotz]

There is another option called wifi direct you should try it

[@alkidshuli]

In android 11, WiFi Direct sending is removed, at least in Samsung smartphones

[@IDTR]

No longer exist

[@SUNGOLDSV]

Nearby Share is the successor to Wi-Fi Direct and nearby share uses it as a base and improves upon it

[@beogradgagi]

You should have done a RANGE TEST when phone tranfer directly, not via network wi-fi. 300 meter seem to me non realistic.Thanks for the video,

[@oc3144]

why is your intro/transitions super high energy?

[@0SIGMA]

Watching in 4a. Been a month... And Just love this phone.

[@bababoey6398]

That background music got me hooked 🤙🤙🤙🤟

[@vivekanandapattnayak8237]

I use Nearby share for samsung to any android phone data transfer. For samsung phone to windows ...use samsung flow app ..this is really cool...it has casting option ..so literally copy or drag and drop files from pc to samsung phone and vice versa...another option with wifi Direct as usual....so two ways to transfer. Samsung flow available in both samsung store, play store and microsoft store. But I prefer play store.

[@foualter102]

Thanks for this video... Now i know that nearby share is way better than Quick share.

[@JustindV]

I was looking for this kind of video. So many share options these days..

[@Derively]

I still use Bluetooth for all data transfer. It works with every device :)

[@pearlsofwisdom101]

Good information. Thanks. I just want to know if device is not connected to any WiFi then WiFi only option does exactly what?

[@Kaizer-nz9uo]

The best part of Nearby Share is the fact that I still got it in my Android 9.0 Pie.

[@jdcl_03]

Did you know that Huawei and realme (oppo's sub brand) have their own sharing systems? It's called Huawei Share and realme Share, they are both pretty fast in terms of transferring and receiving files. I recommend comparing them also.

[@d.mkhlnk6741]

Actually nearby share works quite bad, it's complicated for many and it won't work from the beginning quite often. So it's way easier to share using messengers

[@chowjunyi963]

Quick Share is faster for me, Nearby Share takes longer time to connect for me

[@JayPatelVlogs]

me too..

[@RajanSinghRajput07]

Great video Emad❤️ Btw I'm curious to know if nearby share is somewhat better on pixel devices compared to others?

[@IDTR]

Based on my previous comparison it was worth but I didn't try it for a while

[@littledrummer3814]

Quickshare between Galaxy phones that have UWB is way faster than Airdrop and Nearby share for than matter. The S10+ doesn't have UWB yet so it's slow.

[@youleean]

thanks for such a detailed video🔥

[@IDTR]

You're most welcome bro

[@trivikram1988]

Awesome video again bro🙏👍 I would love to see how fast nearby share works between pixel phones

[@IDTR]

I did that a while ago after a couple of months of the release and it was very slow on Pixels but maybe things changed now, anyways here's the video kzbin.info/www/bejne/iZ_deneYoJh0gNk

[@trivikram1988]

@@IDTR thanks again bro ❤️🙏

[@trivikram1988]

@@IDTR that's a massive difference 😯 but hopefully now between pixels it might be atleast same as what shown in today's video

[@mackmccord3743]

@@IDTR Yes! We would love to see this with Pixel phones in the state that they're in now.

[@kikihun9726]

Both phones are using wifi direct with different encryptions... The first option is 30sec because they use bluetooth to find each other on the samsung.

[@IDTR]

But if we removed the 7 seconds still, it will be slower

[@carahul]

Thankyou sir explained well 👍 Best of luck for future🙏

[@FarasZameel]

Bro BGm Music Is Littlt Loud Please Adjust Next Time

[@PERRIERhp]

Maybe you should factor in the device discovery duration as it took wildly different time from device to device

[@Subhranil.]

No one knows about nearby share still everyone uses third party applications only hardcore users know about this!!!

[@firepenguin1030]

Cause third party application are still better as of now, they provide more control, you can send installed apps which is not possible in nearby share unless you have the apk files, third party apps let you continue sharing big files from where it got stopped due to some disruption in between.

[@samuraisings5105]

Xender lol

[@itskalos]

Happy to see a Stadia controller there :)

[@nucleya_gaming_]

I just love the ways how he's speaking English

[@nancywindsor2110]

Smart share is actually super fast when both Samsung devices are on top of each other.

[@furkanavshar]

Could you please add "Mi Share" too?

[@swelters29]

I liked your video a lot but you didnt talk about initializing all share features. For Quick Share you had to open multiple sub prompts which takes more time, Nearby Share you had to click in command center that you wanted to get files on the receiving phone which takes some time as well, but for Airdrop it was just one prompt. This is a very big consideration as well

[@icentuche90]

The very first time when connecting, takes time on Andriod but repeating the process is farster. If you use nearby share first it takes time before it starts to transfer on first try.

[@lethalhands7497]

finally real improvement of android

[@hurairamuzammel8663]

I use nearby share to share 200 MB video but if took more than 10 min.

[@RackaApps]

Set it to not use any Data it will faster

[@ADeeSHUPA]

@@RackaApps uP

[@teodora3]

Maybe your internet was slow

[@tomioka_san00001]

Airdrop vs Quick Share vs Nearby Share Share it: hold my beer

[@Y4vuz12]

Can you test sending multiple photos to multiple phones at the same time because airdrop is really good in such situations.

[@IDTR]

Thanks for the tip, will definitely consider this in the future

[@M0BILTUBER]

Wow so interesting ididnt know about that, im glad with u 4 this

[@harmaina6060]

The background music was just awesome 👌 any one please name it....

[@mrnobody9847]

Yes

[@jdzelaya90]

I really enjoy watching your videos, great job!

[@ajperez44]

Before I use shareit. But I never thought that my phone has nearby share too and I never expected to be that fast until I saw your video. I'm dumb haha

[@007Eldho]

Airdrop is better because we can use iPad ,iPhone ,iMac,macbook and they are giving value for money .but Samsung tab is not giving value for money and phone also.

[@Charlie1x]

Interesting, 'cause Quick Share is faster than Nearby Share on my Note20 Ultra...

[@abdullahe3674]

Does quick share and nearby share work with a PC ? Kind regards Thanks for the video

[@MoMCHa96]

After this video, Samsung renamed their option to Slow Share

[@IDTR]

😂

[@ManuelRossi]

Big up for Stadia controller! Nice content too!

[@spwan10]

Where did ya get that stop watch? I like it

[@bhavun8084]

The android fans wishing others had androids so they could use their replica features

[@Андрей-я2л2у]

You should compare them with HuaweiShare technology