- Google is updating Quick Share for Windows to support ARM-based devices.
- The update is confirmed in Google’s Quick Share FAQ.
- The Quick Share installer has not yet been updated, so ARM users still can’t install it.
Google’s Quick Share has sure changed a lot in the past year. Originally called Nearby Share, back in January Google merged its efforts with Samsung Quick Share and adopted the latter’s name. Then in March 2023 the feature came to Windows PCs, allowing for fast file transfers between any Android device with almost any Windows machine. ARM-based PCs, like all the laptops running Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X Elite platform, were formally incompatible, but that’s finally changing now.
Android expert and Android Authority contributor Mishaal Rahman already discovered a workaround that allowed ARM PCs to install Quick Share, but it was a complicated process that required the use of an x86 computer. Although this served as a stopgap measure for people who rely on Quick Share, it wasn’t feasible for most and official support is always preferred.