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Transfer Files Between Android & Windows 10 Via Bluetooth

Transfer Files Between Android & Windows 10 Via Bluetooth

November 27, 2018 by Mitch Bartlett 34 Comments

If you’re without a cable and wish to quickly transfer files via Bluetooth between your Android device and Windows 10 computer, here’s how it’s done.

Pairing the Android and Windows 10 Devices

  1. From your Android, go to “Settings” > “Bluetooth” and turn Bluetooth on. Ensure your Android is set to be discoverable via Bluetooth.
  2. From Windows 10, go to “Start” > “Settings” > “Bluetooth“.
  3. The Android device should show in the list of devices. Select the “Pair” button next to it.
  4. Windows 10 and your Android will show a passcode. Ensure that the codes match on both devices. Tap “OK” on the Android and “Yes” on Windows 10. Otherwise select “No” or “Cancel“.
  5. The devices should then be paired together. Select “Send or receive files via Bluetooth” from the Windows 10 device.
  6. Choose “Send files” to send files to your Android or “Receive files” to receive files from the Android.

Send Files to Android From Windows 10

  1. After selecting “Send files” from Windows 10, select your device for where to send your files, then select “Next“.
  2. Select “Browse“, then navigate to the folder that contains the files you wish to send. You can hold the “CTRL” key and select multiple files if desired. Once you have the file(s) selected, select “Open“.
  3. The files should show in the “File names” field. Select “Next“.
  4. From the Android, choose to “Accept” the file transfer.
  5. The files should successfully transfer between devices.

Receive files on Windows 10 from Android

  1. After selecting “Receive files” in Windows, choose the “Share” option for any file on the Android device, then select “Bluetooth“.
  2. From the Android, select the Windows 10 PC as the you want to send to.
  3. The file should successfully be received on the Windows device. Select “Browse…” if you wish to change the location the file will be saved to. Select “Finish” and the file will be saved to your PC.

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Filed Under: Android, Windows Tagged With: Windows 10

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Comments

  1. Chuck says

    July 30, 2022 at 12:37 pm

    I have followed these steps countless times, even before reading them here, and it hardly EVER WORKS. My Windows 10 PC is already paired with my Android phone, yet whenever the prompts come up to verify the code, no matter which device I click on first, or how quickly I do so, the simply refuse to connect. Is there any solution to this ridiculous ongoing situation? Using a Bluetooth connection to transfer files is supposed to be easier and quicker than attaching a USB cable, yet with this issue, of course, it isn’t. Any assistance you can provide would be greatly appreciated, as even the Microsoft website is no help whatsoever (big surprise, huh?). Thank you.

  2. ahmet özgen says

    May 25, 2021 at 8:37 am

    Yes thank you very much. Your article solved my long time suffering.

  3. Ed says

    April 14, 2021 at 11:13 am

    Works for one file/pic at a time. I need to send multiple pics via bluetooth. One at a time sucks.

  4. Hein Mank says

    March 31, 2021 at 4:09 pm

    Dear reader,
    Yes, your guide really helped me to finally transfer a couple of files to my Android device. More than that: you were my last resort as everyone else was referring me to usb connection. That one I know very well, but recently for some reason the usb connection only allows files to be transferred from android to pc. I needed the reverse, and your webpage helped me to achieve this goal.
    Tham you very much.

  5. Tahiry says

    October 26, 2020 at 1:01 pm

    I want to use the Bluetooth feature to browse files on my phone using the browser. Is this possible? It would be terribly painstaking to transfer one file at a time

  6. WolfAndy says

    August 22, 2020 at 1:46 pm

    as mentioned above this manual shows only how to connect android device with wind10 pc/laptop. So have to take some time to figure it out myself.
    i removed device from pc memory and paired it again – in this case i use tickbox “allow to read contacts and call history”. After was able to send and receive files as per manual above. Silly but seems like a glitch in system connection setup. Enjoy

  7. Mark says

    July 20, 2020 at 6:03 am

    As usual with bluetooth – it doesn’t work. The article doesn’t say what to do when getting “Sending failed”. There is never a reason provided for these kind of messages. Bluetooth is unreliable and it doesn’t work as you say it does.

  8. Aditya pandey says

    June 3, 2020 at 9:37 am

    My laptop doesn’t receive any sort of file from my android device except images I have no idea what the problem is whenever I try to send a video or an mp3 file it would not connect

  9. Bob_WA says

    April 1, 2020 at 4:40 am

    Thank you to David Spector for his guidance. Worked for me on my Android 9 phone and Windows 10 pc.
    The transfer isn’t quick, Bluetooth has limited bandwidth, but does get the job done. In my case a two minute video of 60MB that was too big for MMS or Gmail.

  10. Sidhique says

    October 5, 2019 at 5:07 am

    Thank you very much.Step by step answer solved all my doubts.I can easily send and receive files now,thank you.

  11. John Doe says

    September 28, 2019 at 7:40 am

    This article solved my problem ! Thank you for your contribution to the world!

  12. –Phase– says

    September 3, 2019 at 10:46 pm

    Thanks a lot for this tutorial, I couldn’t figure out why my phone wasn’t able to send files to my computer, turns out I just had to use the “receive files” option as detailed here

  13. Goe says

    August 23, 2019 at 12:32 pm

    Yes, this helped ! I was not performing step 6 of this tutorial. I was frustrated that I wasn’t able to Bluetooth my phone’s photos to my laptop. Thanx for this article and for helping me out !

  14. Jim says

    August 16, 2019 at 1:01 pm

    Article uses the word ‘should’ a lot. Unfortunately, it all falls apart at the first one. Neither Windows 10 PC or Samsung Android phone see each other when I scan for devices. So, I can get no farther and article doesn’t address what to do if ‘should’ doesn’t work.

  15. poiuwn says

    May 29, 2019 at 10:26 pm

    Thank you. It worked. Earlier I did not select settings – bluetooth & other devices-send or receive files via Bluetooth – receive. Without this selection, it is impossible to launch a file transfer from my phone.

  16. Joyce says

    May 1, 2019 at 12:12 am

    Thank you , thank you, thank you. All the Microsoft “help” instructions were a waste of much time. This worked.

  17. Rodman Browning says

    April 16, 2019 at 12:40 pm

    Didn’t work for me. Contacted MS phone support and they couldn’t resolve the issue either. Fortunately, I dual boot Linux and it works flawlessly. So, it must a Windows issue.

  18. David Spector says

    April 3, 2019 at 2:40 pm

    After much experimentation, here is what worked for me:

    1. On Windows 10, right-click on Bluetooth icon in notification/task tray. Select Receive a File.
    2. On the Android cell phone, select a photo to send then click the Bluetooth icon in the home page. It should search and then show you the name of your Windows 10 computer. Click on the name. It should send the file.
    3. Click on Finish on Windows 10.
    4. A copy of the file will now be located in the Document folder. It will just have a number as its name, and the JPG extension.

  19. Gaico says

    October 29, 2018 at 8:04 am

    This one did extremely help. TNXS,.

  20. Norm Brown says

    October 19, 2018 at 4:06 pm

    Hi
    How to I transfer several files at once using Bluetooth transfer and specifying several files. The transfer fails after 1 file and part of the next one is transferred. I am using a galaxie s5 and a Microsoft Surface.
    I have several hundred pictures to transfer.
    Thanks for your assistance
    Norm Brown

  21. James says

    September 6, 2018 at 5:51 pm

    tried this but did not work. I get message on android (LG g5) that says file not sent.
    help?

  22. Michael Moser says

    July 19, 2018 at 2:42 pm

    This works up to 6 files. If one selects and wants to send more then somewhere around half of the 7th file the transfer always stalls. Reproducibly! Quite annoying!

    “Tested” between an MS Surface Pro 4 (Windows 10) and a Samsung Galaxy S7 (running Android 8.0) – all patched and up-to-date…

  23. Calvin says

    July 14, 2018 at 8:15 am

    Wow! Thank you so much for this information. It worked wonders. I really appreciate your help.

  24. Linx says

    June 27, 2018 at 2:42 pm

    My S7 is paired with my laptop windows 10. But every time I want to sent a file from my phone, it says that it can not be done or that my laptop can not accept it. I have tried everything.

  25. Juani says

    May 8, 2018 at 10:08 am

    I use A5 which I have updated with windows 10. My phone does not show up on my laptop. Is this because windows 10 supports bluetooth 5.0 and A5 only has 4.2?
    What needs to be done?

  26. Rob says

    March 10, 2018 at 11:28 am

    Brilliant, thanks. Worth noting that, if you hold your finger on a thumbnail image in Gallery in Android, it switches to the mode that lets you “tick” multiple images to send in one go. It’s pretty slow to transfer (or it is from my old Samsung A3) but it gets round the problem of not having a cable to hand.
    Being able to browse the files on the phone from the Windows laptop would be really handy!

  27. aa says

    March 8, 2018 at 9:36 am

    Great, Thank you!

  28. Bart says

    March 5, 2018 at 7:24 pm

    This worked great. Thanks for the detailed instructions.

  29. Korinna says

    January 31, 2018 at 11:43 am

    AWESOME ANSWER, WORKED LIKE A CHARM!! THANK YOU!

  30. Brian says

    January 21, 2018 at 1:42 am

    I want to use the Bluetooth feature to browse files on my phone using the browser. Is this possible? It would be terribly painstaking to transfer one file at a time.

  31. Gina Lucas says

    January 15, 2018 at 7:40 pm

    I was able to do this with photos taken with camera but with photos taken with phone it did not work
    Any idea why?

  32. joe says

    December 25, 2017 at 4:54 pm

    If you have window 8 or 7 then how does it work? Also how you can access of the samsung note 8 cell phone through by computer to access all children activities.

  33. Fizzy says

    December 6, 2017 at 11:38 am

    Thank you very much! I was able to send files via Bluetooth to my Windows 10 b/c of this post. Thank you!

  34. Goh says

    September 23, 2017 at 11:22 am

    We need to manually click “receive files” in windows before sharing any files out from an android phone?

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