Here’s what the AirDrop-like Nearby Sharing feature looks like in Google Chrome - 9to5Google

Google has been slowly building out its own version of that feature for a while now with Nearby Sharing and, as it rolls out more widely on Android, the feature has also arrived on Google Chrome.

We’ve known for some time that Nearby Sharing would arrive on Google Chrome, but it wasn’t clear what it would look like or how it might work.

As spotted by TechDows in the latest Chrome Canary release, Nearby Sharing has arrived on at least the Windows version of the browser, but likely Chrome OS and macOS too.

On that page, we can see that Google will show the file being exchanged as well as any nearby devices that also work with this AirDrop-like feature, as seen below.

Beyond that, this new page also confirms that Bluetooth is a required hardware capability to allow Nearby Sharing to work on Google Chrome.

Google is currently testing Nearby Sharing on Android devices in beta, so it’ll likely be a few weeks before both Android and Chrome have this all completely ready for launch.

Available for Windows, Mac, and Linux, Google Chrome is the most widely used desktop browser in the world