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TL;DR Google may soon bring a new visibility option to Quick Share.
It appears to be toying with the idea of allowing family members to send you files more easily.
The option doesn’t appear in the app yet, so we’re unsure of its release.
Quick Share has received a lot of love and attention from Google in recent months. After its redesign last year, Quick Share has been the new poster child for Google’s resistance to Apple’s walled-garden approach (after it successfully met its objectives with RCS chat). With AirDrop support on Quick Share now being opened up for a wider range of Android devices, Google may be turning its attention to adding options to make it more useful.
Back in February, Google removed a key sharing feature from Quick Share with the intent to make it more secure. Now, it appears to be working to include another one so people you trust can send you files easily.
Google may be working to make it easier to receive files from your family members through Quick Share. While the current options for Quick Share visibility include “Your devices,” “Contacts,” and “Everyone for 10 minutes,” Google might add another option for “Family.”
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We’ve discovered a new “Family” attribute in Google’s GitHub repository for Nearby Share, formerly known as Quick Share. The upcoming Family option may be used as a substitute for the “Selected contacts only” option, which has now been deprecated.
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