Pin to share menu

[IMANUT46]

Since the upgrade to Android 11, I can no longer pin it share to the upper part of the SHARE menu. Does anyone know why and is there a workaround? Thanks.

 

[B. Diddy]

Sorry -- are you saying you can't pin the SHAREit app to the upper share menu?

 

[IMANUT46]

Thanks. Please let me describe what I'm trying to do. When I read it news item that I think would be interesting to a friend, I invoke the share icon to forward it to them. The share menus top 2 lines contained the icons of my friends that I've previously shared. They were placed there by long pressing the icon and selected PIN. Nothing happens now when I perform the same. We discussed this a few months ago and you helped me fine tune the procedure.

 

[B. Diddy]

Oh, I see what you're saying. There are two different share menus that I can find on my Pixel 3 XL on Android 11. If I try to share an article or website (e.g., through Google News), the Share menu that comes up doesn't have that Pin option. If I share something in the Google Arts & Culture app, that's where I get the Share menu that allows pinning. Not sure why it's like that.

 

[IMANUT46]

Wow. Before this post I had never heard of the Arts and Culture app. It really looks useful and interesting. I'll be sure to try it in the near future.
In the meantime, I found a work around. Since most of my shares are in my contacts folder, I found that I can PIN through a setting in Contacts.
Again, thanks for your help.

 

[B. Diddy]

Glad you found a workaround. Arts & Culture is really cool. Check out some of these fun features: https://artsandculture.google.com/story/5-things-to-do-with-your-camera-phone-at-home/6AISWNxkfTniIA

 

[IMANUT46]

Thanks again.

 

[B. Diddy]

I just saw this article: https://www.autoevolution.com/news/...-has-gone-missing-all-of-a-sudden-148662.html. I wonder if it could be evidence of a wider bug with the Share menu. My understanding was that in Android 11, we were supposed to be able to modify the Share menu any time it came up, but as I mentioned above, I'm seeing two different kinds of share menus. I'll send feedback to Google about this, and I suggest you do the same.

 

[B. Diddy]

I posed this question to JR Raphael of Android Intelligence, and he said the main problem is that there are two kinds of share sheets -- a system share sheet and app-specific custom share sheets. The ability to pin your favorites is in the system share sheet, but not available in custom share sheets, and it can be pretty inconsistent when either of those show up, depending on the app. You'd think that Google's own apps would always use the system share sheet, but nope, that's not the case.

Sigh. All we can do at this point is keep sending feedback to Google.:-\

 

[IMANUT46]

Frustrating isn't it, even for you.

 

[IMANUT46]

I'm back with a new problem with the SHARE command. Often, when I try the share command, the most used is my wife's email address. It's not listed in the Share menu the first time I try it. If I try it again, it's there. On subsequent share commands, it is there sometime. There is no pattern for this behavior. Any suggestions? I've reread all the posts in this thread and none are helpful. Thanks.

 

[IMANUT46]

I noticed a function of the SHARE command. If you press the MORE icon, a new vertical scrolling menu appears. How do I get that screen to view on the first press of the SHARE icon. Thanks