Late yesterday, Google announced an update reaching all Android phones, regardless of manufacturer. The new Android Feature Pack (not to be confused with the Pixel Feature Pack for Google phones) adds in-call device switching and a very handy ability: Share mobile Internet with a simple tap.

Thus, when we activate the access point on our mobile phone, there will be no need to enter a password or connect networks on the second device. Everything will be done from the Google account, although Samsung will oddly be left out of the equation. Of course there is your own alternative Korean manufacturer that you can now use.

Samsung doesn’t need Android updates

As we commented, this is new Android Feature Drop It adds what Google calls “Instant Hotspot” (instant hotspot, translated into Spanish). Essentially, what it does is reduce the number of taps on the screen we need to do to enable tethering.

Until now, the steps were more complex: Activate the access point on the connected device, set a password, add it to the secondary device, enter the password… Google thinks this process is very tedious for the user and has developed a very simple way to do this. do it.

By activating the function, when we launch the access point, for example, on our mobile phone, on the secondary device such as another smartphone, tablet or Chromebook, will connect immediately. You will not need to enter a password, it will be done automatically as long as we have the same Google account on all computers.

It’s interesting, at least what we read on Android Police: Samsung Galaxy is excluded from this function. Without knowing why, the truth is they don’t need it either. Samsung has One UI, a customization layer that has many functions that not all users know about. One of these looks similar to the one currently reaching other Android phones. We tell you how it works and how to activate it.

Sharing internet from Galaxy to Samsung tablet or laptop is that simple

Although Google functionality reaches all Android devices except Galaxy A better solution from Samsung: Relation to Windows computers. “Instant Hotspot” only works with Chromebooks, while “Windows Link” works with Microsoft system.

Where does Samsung hide this useful feature? Just go to Settings > Connected devices > Connectivity to Windows. It requires signing in with our Microsoft account, but then offers two functions similar to Google’s new one: “Instant Wi-Fi coverage” and “Use mobile data.”

The first will enable our computer to use mobile data when it cannot find a WiFi connection, and the second will speed up this connection without the need for a password or configuration. Maybe that’s why Samsung scraps native Google featureWe assume this to avoid duplicates and make its integration with Microsoft more meaningful.

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