
If you have a Samsung laptop, you'll see it pop up on your phone as a target when using Quick Share, and best of all, you can use it to drag and drop files from the computer onto your phone or tablet.Īpple's Airdrop has offered similar functionality since 2011, so it's taken a long time for Android to catch up. This is so convoluted compared to Quick Share, and it shows Google has a lot of room for improvement. If I were to use Google's Nearby Share, I'd need to choose Nearby Share on my Fold3, then pick up the S22, wait for a notification to tell me a device nearby is sharing something, tap that notification, switch back to the Fold3 and pick the S22 from the list of devices, and then press accept on the S22. (By contrast, if I'm sending something to my wife's phone, then she'll need to approve it.) My S22 instantly pops up in the share sheet, and once I tap on it, the file will send. So, if I want to share a file from my Fold3 to my S22, I only need to touch the Fold, provided the S22 is unlocked. All you need to do is download the Galaxy Buds app from the Windows Store, and you're set. While many of the features we talk about today are limited to Samsung laptops, this works with any PC running Windows 10 or newer.

As soon as I ended the call, the watch resumed Spotify playback, and I could continue - all without navigating Bluetooth menus, let alone running back inside to grab my phone. About ten minutes in, I got a phone call, and answering on my watch switched the buds back to my phone so that I could talk to the caller.

Last week I left my phone in the house while I mowed the lawn and connected my Buds to my Watch4 for Spotify. The switching is incredibly fast, taking less than two seconds, and it works on more than phones and tablets. The buds will switch back if I get a phone call or press play on the S22. When I started watching a YouTube video on my Fold3, my S22 paused its music, and my earbuds switched to the Fold seamlessly so I could hear my video. In the example above, I had my Galaxy Buds Pro connected to my S22 Ultra playing Spotify.


Seamless Connection allows your Galaxy Buds to switch between devices automatically when you need them to.
