Nearby Sharing, Android's AirDrop, is disappearing for most

Nearby Sharing, Android's AirDrop, is disappearing for most

+Nearby Sharing, Android's AirDrop alternative, is disappearing from phones and tablets just a few weeks after initially arriving.

One of the more exciting Google developments of the past year is Nearby Sharing, an AirDrop-like service that can transfer files, links, and more between Android devices and eventually almost any device with Google Chrome.

Now Nearby Sharing is beginning to disappear from Android phones and tablets just a few weeks after initially arriving.

When it first appeared, Nearby Sharing was limited to devices that used a beta version of Google Play Services, before eventually appearing on the stable version.

Even then though, Google only opened it to a random selection of people.

Before you go picking out a plot for Nearby Sharing in the Killed by Google graveyard, it’s important to remember that Google called this a “limited beta test.”

It’s possible they got the data they needed and turned the feature back off until they were ready to properly launch it to the world.