If you want to move files from your phone to the best Chromebooks, there`s a variety of ways to do it. From plugging in a USB cable like it`s 2009 to using Google Drive as a file transfer server, you`ve got options. But with the arrival of Chrome OS 89, you have one more called Nearby Share. Nearby Share allows your devices to be visible to designated contacts or temporarily visible to all nearby devices, allowing other phones to send you invitations to download a file, photo, or open a shared link.
Nearby Share is pretty easy to use on your Android phone, but even after Chrome OS 89, we need to enable a Chrome OS flag to enable the feature, and we need to activate it in order for your Chromebook to become visible to your phone.
How to enable the Nearby Share Chrome flag
The hope is that this flag will become enabled by default in future versions of Chrome OS, but for now, you`ll have to go turn it on yourself. Here`s how.
Go to chrome://flags in the Chrome browser.
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