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Send files between your phone and your laptop

An Android phone and a Windows laptop have no shared AirDrop. Neither do an iPhone and a Linux desktop. The usual workarounds are emailing a file to yourself, uploading it to a cloud drive and downloading it again, or hunting for the right cable. If both devices are on the same Wi-Fi, you can skip all of that: open the same page on each, share a six-character code, and move the file directly.

Do it now

  1. 1 Make sure the phone and the laptop are on the same Wi-Fi network.
  2. 2 On the laptop, open the home page and choose "Create room". Leave it open — the room shows a QR code and a six-character code.
  3. 3 On the phone, point the camera at that QR code, or open the same site and type the code into "Join room".
  4. 4 The phone now appears in the laptop's device list, and the laptop in the phone's. Pick your files, choose the other device, and send.

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Which combinations work

Pasa File runs entirely in the browser, so the operating systems on either end do not have to match or know anything about each other. What matters is the browser and the network.

  • Android phone to Windows, macOS, or Linux

    Works. Chrome or Firefox on the phone, any modern browser on the computer.

  • iPhone or iPad to Windows or Linux

    Works in Safari and in Chrome on iOS. This is the gap AirDrop leaves, and the main reason people reach for a tool like this.

  • Laptop to laptop across the room

    Works, and this is the fastest case — two computers on the same Wi-Fi with plenty of memory on both ends.

  • Two devices on different networks

    Not supported. See the limits below.

Before you rely on it

  • Both devices need internet access, even though the file itself stays on your network — they have to reach this site to be introduced to each other.
  • Phones have far less spare memory than laptops, and the receiving device assembles the whole file in memory before saving. Sending a 4 GB video to a phone is where this breaks first; sending it from a phone to a laptop is fine.
  • On a shared or public Wi-Fi network, set a room password. The six-character code alone is short enough to be worth guessing.
  • Keep both browser tabs in the foreground while a transfer runs. Phones aggressively suspend background tabs, which will drop the connection.
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