How I make my Android phone work better with my MacBook - Android Police

While Android phone owners with a MacBook may never get the same level of integration and seamlessness enjoyed by those who are fully committed to the Apple ecosystem with an iPhone, the experience on macOS doesn’t have to be too terrible for those of us wielding Android handsets.

As someone who’s (mostly) been using a Mac computer in conjunction with various Android phones for the last ten years, I’ve come across quite a few ways that make my life easier.

I work on something on my phone, and it’s just there on my MacBook as I sift through my cloud storage.

Sure, these sync methods work across any Android phone and any computer that supports any kind of browser, but they make me feel like I don’t really miss out compared to folks who have an iPhone and MacBook.

And on Android, you could still use a service like Google Photos for a less seamless, but equally effective workflow.

While it’s certainly also possible to move files back and forth between Macs and Android phones using a USB-C cable, my preferred way to sync files is OneDrive.

Given how much of my digital life lives on Google’s servers, I like to diversify things a bit and keep important bits separate from the company, but really, any cloud service but iCloud could serve you well when you want an easy way to sync files across Android and macOS.

When using an Android client like Solid Explorer, uploading, downloading, and managing files is also much less of a hassle than with most official cloud services’ apps.

I personally don’t see the need to sync my clipboard across my computer and my Android phone, and following some security updates to Android, it’s become a rather complicated ordeal, too.

Clipt supports clipboard syncing from Mac (or rather, Chrome) to Android, but to get stuff from your phone to show up in your MacBook’s clipboard, you need to hit an extra button in a permanent notification or a quick settings tile in your notification shade.