[SOLVED] Best ways to move mp3's between smartphones?

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Just bought some podcasts I wanted to give a friend, I run an Android, him an iphone. Is there REALLY not yet an easy way to wirelessly move multiple large-ish MP3's straight between smartphones?

I thought it'd be easy enough with google drive. After being texted a shareable link to the folder, my friend could find no "download" button anywhere, he viewed it both through Safari and later the google drive app proper. The exact same dropdown menu, which we both found by clicking the 3 vertical dots next to the file name of one of the MP3's, was the same on both phones except that mine had a "download" button about midway down and his didn't.

Bluetooth would connect but I only had the option to send one file at a time (tolerable) and when I hit send, nothing happened. Wrote it off as possible conflict between iOS and Android, moved on.


Would OneDrive or Dropbox be any easier? Anything else to try? Obviously they're not hard to download to a PC, then connect the phone with a USB cable and move the MP3's that way, but that just seems excessively cumbersome in The Current Year™ and at the time were somewhere that wasn't possible.

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Google has this infatuation with everything being on the cloud, instead of available locally. It's infuriating and the same bias shows up in other Google devices (lack support for microSD cards). On top of that, Apple doesn't like you messing with files on iOS by yourself. Combine the two and I'm not at all surprised Google Drive has problems downloading files on iOS.

Try any of the alternative file sharing programs like Dropbox or Box. On Android, you can use Beam if both phones have NFC (place them next to each other), which IMHO was the simplest if somewhat flaky way. But I don't think Apple ever supported that. You can try the options listed in this article too...
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Google has this infatuation with everything being on the cloud, instead of available locally. It's infuriating and the same bias shows up in other Google devices (lack support for microSD cards). On top of that, Apple doesn't like you messing with files on iOS by yourself. Combine the two and I'm not at all surprised Google Drive has problems downloading files on iOS.

Try any of the alternative file sharing programs like Dropbox or Box. On Android, you can use Beam if both phones have NFC (place them next to each other), which IMHO was the simplest if somewhat flaky way. But I don't think Apple ever supported that. You can try the options listed in this article too.

https://www.computerworld.com/article/3262126/apple-ios/8-essential-android-to-ios-file-transfer-tips.html
 
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"Just bought some podcasts" does not mix well with " I wanted to give a friend", unless the podcasts' owner explicitly allows that.

As for sharing: iDevices are notorious about their local storage being not-your-father-storage. Apple wants you to manage your iDevice thru iTunes only. So ask your friend to download that MP3 file on his computer, and sync with his/her iPhone thru iTunes.
 
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