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Dedicated iCloud Drive App Included Within Settings of iOS 9
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wow, i think apple developers must be reading macrumors forum latelly, but what about things like "clear all notifications" or "close all apps" at the task switcher, huh? we've been asking simple things like that since the stone age
Shame they are not bumping the default storage size. 5gb is nothing these days.
Does this mean we can use it just like Dropbox (actually as a filing system)? I'm kind of getting sick of each app having its own folder. Id rather have the freedom to save anything anywhere.
Apple...please add toggles for other apps like Watch, Tips, gamePlay, etc. basically any icon in the settings menu should be allowed to be hidden besides Settings.app
Yes, hide the phone app too. Who calls people anymore? It's 2015. Let's be real.
Even carriers mention data first these days. Voice minutes is like caller ID...it just comes standard.
Now if AT&T can only offer gigabit wireless data plans for iPhone 7.
Yes, hide the phone app too. Who calls people anymore? It's 2015. Let's be real.
Even carriers mention data first these days. Voice minutes is like caller ID...it just comes standard.
Now if AT&T can only offer gigabit wireless data plans for iPhone 7.
What's your preferred solution for managing user's content? I would be genuinely interested in a good idea. Scattering documents all over dozens of apps isn't really a useful solution imo.
Don't think they want to add those because they don't see them as being needed and they see possible unintended use of them by more "typical" users who might not realize it or even intend it.
You probably are using it and not realizing it. A lot of apps use iCloud Drive for storage.
Until now I can assure you I'm not using iCloud Drive.
In its current form it's useless.
Whether this is a major feature or not would be a matter of opinion (I'm sure some of those who ran screaming to iOS from the world of file system-centric OSes would prefer to never see a file folder), but undoubtedly, the time/space dedicated to the news app is a matter of "partner politics." Apple needs to keep all those content providers on board, and Newsstand clearly needed a re-launch. And it wouldn't be an Apple keynote without a long list of impressive content providers, developers, and now, banks, medical research facilities, automakers...
I think you would have to turn off the iCloud functionality for the apps you don't want to see folders for.. correct me if I'm wrong.
Tags. Like in OS X Yosemite. Scattering files all over hundreds of folders is not a good solution either. Having an app of folders and files like Dropbox or Finder is a much poorer solution than what Apple is moving to. This app is pointless and adds an extra step unless you are using apps still doing things the old way and haven't moved into the 21st century yet.
When I want to work on a presentation in Yosemite, I never have to open the Finder. Opening Keynote takes me right into access of all my Keynote files. Far faster than opening the Finder and searching through thousands of files and folder that have absolutely nothing to do with presentations.
Think about how mail apps work. When you want an email, you open the mail app and the emails are just there. All your searching is done from there. You don't manually put all your emails scattered around different folders mixed in with all sorts of other files in the Finder do you? And you don't go to the Finder app to manage or open an email do you? No, that would be stupid.
The fact of the matter is that people have just been trained to do things the old outdated way and haven't yet adopted to the new and better way yet. Part of the problem is Apple has been slow to integrate tagging into the workflow. Tagging takes care of the situation where you want to view by project. Works much better than folders since files don't have to be in any specific "location" so you don't have to decide which particular location works best. And you don't have to look in and out of multiple folders trying to find the file you're looking for.
You can turn off that irritating rubbish under iCloud settings - It is "Apps that use iCloud" or some such, and just toggle them all off. After that, you just see your own folders in iCloud. For me, the whole iCloud thing still smacks of people at Apple deciding how we should be using iCloud in their opinion, compared with how most of us want to use iCloud (i.e. just like DropBox). Happily, we seem to be slowly winning!
Just installed iOS 9 on my iPhone 5 (my beta-iPhone), and YES!!! iCloud Drive as a "File System browser" works.
Lovely to be able to exchange PDF files (among others of course) simply by copying them to your iCloud drive from your Mac.
Me happy!
Lovely to be able to exchange PDF files (among others of course) simply by copying them to your iCloud drive from your Mac.
Me happy!
Newsflash - tags/labels are in essence folders with a different UI presentation to the end user. Giving a document or file more than one tag/label is exactly the same as putting things in a subfolder heirarchy in Finder. It isn't more or less efficient per say.
Do you need to find that PDF monthly report from June 2012? Do you open Finder and navigate to ~/Monthly Reports/2012 or do you open Preview and click open and then search for the tags Monthly reports and 2012? Same difference?
Also, tags are supported in iOS?? Seems to me they use folders there...
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But by turning them off, yes the folders disappear from the drive but then the app that you turned off has no iCloud access.
In the iOS iCloud app can you do this...
- Create folders
- Delete folders
- Rename files
- Delete files
- Copy files
- Move files
Note this app is not really "Hidden" as the both iPad/iPhone ask u, after install, if u want 2 turn it on.
Yes, u can add/remove folders.
It does't seem to come up as a share sheet target in all circumstances, which is disappointing, however I was able to save an email attachment into it which is cool.
Yes, u can add/remove folders.
It does't seem to come up as a share sheet target in all circumstances, which is disappointing, however I was able to save an email attachment into it which is cool.
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That's an idealistic view on it but I don't blame you. I've been through that and tried it all, first with third party apps and later when tags came to OS X. It just doesn't work as well as folders. Although folders are a type of tagging as well. Most prominent reason is that most of my documents belong to a group of documents (projects, events, context...). These groups are always visible as folders when I need them. When I workon a project, I head over to that project and read, edit and manage my content of pdfs, text, images, presentations etc.. The folder structure guides me so I don't have to remember all the tags for consistent tagging and searching. The editing app is secondary, it opens automatically. Folders also need less maintenance. Yes, they aren't perfect but in the end they are quicker and easier to use. Even in Mail I am organised by folders with the inbox, drafts, sent messages, archive, personal, office etc.
Again, I understand what you mean but I have never gained any advantages in a real life scenario. That's why I am really happy about this app. It makes it much easier for me to access my content and work with it.