Explaining Android
We can finally pin our favorite apps or contacts to the top of the Android Share menu but some apps are still making things difficult.
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Video Description
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The Share menu in Android has been a mess for quite some time now. The community has been asking Google for a way to clean things up, and finally the Android 13 update brings this request to reality. With the new update, all Android devices will finally be able to pin their favorite applications or contacts to the top of the Share menu.
This is a feature we’ve seen in Samsung’s OneUI for a white now, but Android’s way of sharing things still means the process is more complex than it should be.
So let me show you the new changes with Android 13.
Let’s say that when you share something on Android, you almost always share them with a handful of people or applications. But sadly, the more people you know and the more applications have installed, the more cluttered your Android Share Menu can get. This can get even more annoying when Android ends up showing different apps or contacts at the top of the Share Menu depending on what you’re sharing or where you’re sharing it from.
So with the launch of Android 13, we can now PIN our favorite contacts and apps to the top of the Share menu.
We can use the Google Play Store as an example here. We just find something that we want to share and then bring up the menu to see our options. I have previously pinned the Pushbullet app as well as the Chrome device I’ve added to the app. This way I can quickly share things to my PC since they’ll be pinned at the top of the list here.
Now what about applications or games that overtake the default Share Menu with their own? Many apps do this, even ones from Google and sadly it adds an additional step to this whole process. We still have access to our pinned apps and contacts from there, but we just need to bypass the hardcoded share menu that these apps have built in.
I know Android’s share menu has been a work in progress for quite some time now, but I really dislike seeing apps overtake the default Android share menu like this. I hope that the new work put into Android 13 gives these app developers an incentive to use the default option instead of building one into the app itself.
I would especially like to see Google take the reigns here and lead by example. They can remove these built-in options from their apps now that the share menu in Android 13 is becoming so useful.
Step by Step Tutorial
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1. Intro [00:00]
2. Bring up the share menu [01:47]
3. Long-press the app or contact you want to pin [02:22]
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