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Apple Announces New 'Files' App Coming With iOS 11
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No problem, also there are download manager apps if you really want it, such as:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/idl-plus-free-cloud-storage-and-file-manager/id429648406?mt=8
Once a file is downloaded you can move it to your other apps, external storage etc.
Can anyone with the beta installed on an iPad (or iPhone if it works) tell me if the new files app allows you to input video files from a camera that the photos app doesn't understand. (Essentially does it let you input files from external memory cards directly to a folder instead of requiring them to go through the apple photo app). It always drove me crazy that the only way to get video codecs like AVCHD and XAVC into video editing apps that could use them was to upload them to dropbox from your home computer. Also, does it let you drop files from your ipad to a memory card or flash drive attached via the lightning port?
That's what I was thinking too. There should be a way to mount drives via lightning or even wifi if the drive supports it. Does anyone know?
Apple doesn't seem to believe in physical connections to iOS. Files appears to continue that line of thinking. The hardware on the new iPads is very appealing but without the ability to work on external files, video, photo or audio, it relegates such a potentially useful tablet into an expensive device not usable by most serious producers of media. Dropbox and the like are useful but the sheer file sizes involved in video, etc., make cloud access non-practical. So close and yet so far.
And, come on, the camera in the iPad is good for what it is, however, it is not a professional camera and not even close to adequate for most pros. I put off getting a Surface Pro until this WDC just hoping that Apple would finally make something I could use. Too bad. There is a big potential market out there that Apple is blindly ignoring.
Is Apple's thinking of 'local file system' a walled garden that s setup for this purpose of file storage. It does not sound like a user can navigate to the /user/lib/pref or any other folder or view files and directory structures outside of the app. But I will reserve further comments until it has been given a thorough testing.
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After reviewing the keynote demo on this and reading through other's posts, it appears to be a clunky method of replicating the native Mac OS finder.
Is Apple's viewpoint to resist offering a robust finder like app, or is the technology not yet available to implement this feature in more of a familiar method?
Could you clarify? Are you saying you are sandboxed to files within each app? I have experience using iFile and other file browsers on jailbroken iOS devices so I am familiar with what the actual file-system structure on older versions of iOS looks like (these could easily access connected media devices with no extra extensions, so iOS is easily capable), I would assume you can't access app preferences and program assets and what not, but if you can't navigate between saved media and documents for multiple apps then.... files isn't really a filesystem at all.
It doesn't access the file storage areas of apps such as Documents or PDF Expert; only their iCloud content.
This new Files app is very similar to the iCloud Drive app, but adds copying files instead of just being able to move files, and a few other features. There's a change it's not complete, as currently it doesn't support Dropbox; it may need a newer version of Dropbox for total integration.
This new Files app is very similar to the iCloud Drive app, but adds copying files instead of just being able to move files, and a few other features. There's a change it's not complete, as currently it doesn't support Dropbox; it may need a newer version of Dropbox for total integration.
What kinds of things would show up in the "On My iPad" or "On My iPhone" section (below the iCloud Drive section) if not non-iCloud app documents? Nothing shows up there for me, currently, but it's there, so I don't think Files is only for things stored in the cloud.
I agree that the iPhone and iOS is capable of providing a finder interface with the features equivalent to what Finder on Mac OS provides. Outside of a jail-broken iOS, the demo of Files does not appear to come close to providing that same level of capability and instead looks like iCloud drive with a few more enhancements, closer but still a ways off.
Every other computer OS for the past 20+ years COPIES the data.
OSX like the original MacOS normally, and like iOS in Photos App (Albums you create) are alias. You remember those right? In iOS Photos app any picture I have there and move into an Album is just an alias. Should I delete the original photo in Photos, any Album it is in is ALSO deleted - just like in iCloud as well.
PS: I hope this is for iOS11 and not iOS11_for_iPad because then this synergistic Apple keeps touting about is Useless to me as I may not purchase an iPad! I live in an apartment and see no need for an iPad as much anymore as I have ....
iPhone 6S + AppleTV2 (soon to be TV4) + latest 13" MacBook Pro +TouchBar. Why would "I" a non visual creative need one in my lifestyle?
Yes. There is a spot for ipad local files. Still no sign of safari download capabilities. I get the security risk, but I wish they’d find an elegant solution. Specially for iPad Pro.
This basically made the iPad become the vision of Apple's Navigator into reality!!