Safari can do it out of the box, but unfor­tu­nate­ly Chrome and Fire­fox can’t: shar­ing web­sites via Air­Drop. With a sim­ple Apple short­cut, it will work from any brows­er, and with the Bar­Cuts app, it’s even more com­fort­able. Here I’ll show you how it works.

It’s that simple

I’m always amazed at how eas­i­ly small, annoy­ing every­day prob­lems can be solved with Apple Short­cuts. For a long time, it both­ered me that I couldn’t just share a web­site via Air­Drop when using the Chrome brows­er on my Mac. Today, I final­ly had the idea to check if there’s an “Air­Drop” action in Short­cuts – and look at that: there is! The short­cut was put togeth­er in no time.

The screen­shot above shows the short­cut. I set it up so that it appears in the menu bar and checks before shar­ing if the input is real­ly a URL. That’s all!

Even more convenient using the BarCuts App

It gets real­ly prac­ti­cal when the short­cut only shows up if a brows­er is active that doesn’t sup­port Air­Drop by default (so all except Safari). You can do exact­ly that with the app “Bar­Cuts,” which I intro­duced in my arti­cle Bar­Cuts – Faster, con­text-based access to short­cuts in macOS.

Here I tagged the short­cut with “Bar­Cuts Tag­ger” so that it only shows up in the Bar­Cuts menu when Chrome or Fire­fox are active.

Con­clu­sion:
It’s often the lit­tle things that make every­day life on the Mac more pleas­ant. With Apple Short­cuts and Bar­Cuts, you can add these com­fort fea­tures with­out any pro­gram­ming knowl­edge – and that’s just fun!