I already had more reasons than expected to keep the Motorola Razr Fold around. While reviewing it, the company’s first foldable genuinely surprised me with its level of polish. A practical outer display, great cameras, strong battery life, and a gorgeous folding screen. All of this made me want to switch to this device as my primary phone.
Now Motorola has added one more reason, and it’s just sweetening the deal for me. The Motorola Razr Fold now supports AirDrop-style sharing through Android’s Quick Share, making it the first Motorola phone to get the feature. That means Razr Fold users can share files directly with Apple devices such as iPhones, iPads, and Macs without relying on cloud links, messaging apps, USB cables, or the usual cross-platform nonsense.
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Making life easier between the different ecosystems
Android users do not need every Apple feature. AirDrop, though, has always been one of the annoyingly good ones. It is fast, simple, local, and familiar to people who own Apple devices. The problem is that Android users have long had to work around it. You could upload a file to Google Drive, send it through WhatsApp, compress it over a messaging app, email it like it is 2014, or grab a cable and hate yourself a little.
Quick Share with AirDrop support fixes that. On supported Android phones, you can share locally through Quick Share, while the Apple device receives the file through AirDrop. This was first noticed by Android Authority, who confirmed the feature was working on the Razr Fold with a MacBook.
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Why this is big on the Razr Fold
The Razr Fold is not a cheap phone. It is Motorola’s biggest swing at a proper book-style foldable, so it needs more than interesting hardware to justify itself as a daily driver–and this is one of the features that genuinely helps. A foldable is often used as a mini-tablet for editing, reviewing photos, reading documents, multitasking, and handling work files. If you are moving photos from the phone to a MacBook, sending documents to an iPad, or sharing media with an iPhone user nearby, AirDrop support makes the Razr Fold feel far less isolated from the Apple devices around it.
Hopefully, this function rolls out to other recent Motorola phones as well. Other Android brands already have supported models, including Google, Samsung, OnePlus, Oppo, Honor, Vivo, and Xiaomi devices. I already liked the Razr Fold more than I expected, and now, the case for making it my daily driver just got a lot stronger.
