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iCloud Drive lacks a standalone app on iOS 8?
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Because it was never, ever going to be any different? Because it isn't remotely necessary? Take your pick of obvious answers.
Actually it goes a little bit more like this....
The Current Old Way:
1. Open Finder/File Manager (extra middle man step)
2. Find your PDF amongst thousands of Word Docs, Keynote files, videos, images, and the hundreds of other document types that are definitely NOT PDF Files
3. Click on the PDF file you want and it opens the Acrobat app for you
The New Way:
1. Open the Acrobat app ( thus skipping the middle man)
2. Click on the PDF file you want (which is much easier to find since it's just a neatly organized list of all your PDF files)
3. There is no step 3.
Pages can't open a PDF...or an Numbers files...How do you tag files in iOS (legit question)? Tags are great but folders can organize things in hierarchies. Also, it's so much easier for me to drag in 17 files into a Folder called "New Album Demo Tracks & Ideas" than to tag each individual file with a static label.
I don't get people like you who don't want options & are short-sighted. If you don't have use for folders in iOS, then don't use them. But why are you against giving people an option? I don't care for iOS third-party keyboards but I get why they may be beneficial to others.
I do actually see it the other way around.
Apps are secondary. Content is the relevant part.
I don't arrange my files by apps but I arrange them by content. No need to deal with apps, they open automatically when choosing a file to edit.
Yet again the Apple cheerleading squad perks up to defend app-centric behavior - and badly I might add. I thought this kind of narrow minded productivity died with Windows 1.0? Some of you obviously don't need to be productive with your files or have dozens of different file formats to deal with for a given project.
And wow. Now I can open Pages and select all my text files. I guess it sucks to be a spreadsheet.
And wow. Now I can open Pages and select all my text files. I guess it sucks to be a spreadsheet.
I organize everything by topic, go to the folder, click on the file, and it opens, edit it, and save when done.
It's worked great for decades for me, and just simply want to do the same with iCloud Drive.
It seems weird to have to know the app, I organize by topic, not by app.
It's worked great for decades for me, and just simply want to do the same with iCloud Drive.
It seems weird to have to know the app, I organize by topic, not by app.
Cloud Drive Explorer seems to be an interesting app. Ugly UI, but it gets the work done.
Cloud Drive Explorer by Tarek Sakr
https://appsto.re/us/irm82.i
Cloud Drive Explorer by Tarek Sakr
https://appsto.re/us/irm82.i
Really because this image from Apple's website begs to differ.
http://www.apple.com/uk/icloud/icloud-drive/?cid=wwa-uk-kwg-features-com
Whats the point if theres no app. Also, how can people compare this to Dropbox. There're not even close currently.
try spotlight search on you iphone since its pretty extensive now. it includes settings.
i just tried it. it does not show keychain entries. i guess it makes sense, as the keychain should be more secure than spotlight.
So far my work around has been to use parallels access to remote into my mac to run it's keychain access app. It's not a prefect solution, but it works for now.
If more apps use both keychain and touch id, then I will hardly ever have to look up the login info anyway, as the app will just pull what it needs to work.
Not sure I would trust a 3rd Party App with my iCloud data. Just saying.
What I find odd though is I was under the impression that I could email any type of file as an attachment due to iCloud drive via iOS. Is that not the case? If I want to email a PDF file via my phone, doesn't seem like an option right now with iCloud Drive. I'm sure I'm misunderstanding the features and capabilities though.
Not so much I think. In reality you'll have to remember in which app you put your pdf. Acrobat, Goodreader, Dropbox or in the Documents app? Wherever it is, inside the app you'll still have to look for it among the other pdfs.
Dealing with doucments (Text, spreadsheets, presentations, pdf etc.) is fundamentally different than handling consumer content like music and movies.
Imagine you couldn't make playlists in iTunes because every song could only live inside it's album. So why can't I make "playlists" with my other files?
Some documents just belong together regardless of their technical file type.
Jumping from app to app in order to see your document (just because of the file extension) makes no sense to me if I could operate from one single point.
It's important to remember...Apple is designing for the uneducated impatient masses. They are dumbing down the software so anyone can easily use it.
Taking control and choices away from us enthusiasts makes the phone appeal to the average person...Apples target market.
Even here you see people saying iPhone is superior to Android because it's simple and easy. The public wants easy. So Apple is dumbing it down for greater sales.
It's a smart move.
Taking control and choices away from us enthusiasts makes the phone appeal to the average person...Apples target market.
Even here you see people saying iPhone is superior to Android because it's simple and easy. The public wants easy. So Apple is dumbing it down for greater sales.
It's a smart move.
What I find even more stupid is that iOS apps can only access stuff within their folders.
I, like most people I guess, have things organised in folders, but for iWork on iOS to be able to work properly, I'd have to copy all my pages documents to the pages folder, etc, which IMO is a little stupid.
I, like most people I guess, have things organised in folders, but for iWork on iOS to be able to work properly, I'd have to copy all my pages documents to the pages folder, etc, which IMO is a little stupid.
The thing you're missing though is that Apple has a solution for that, tags. And it's similar to the way playlists are handled in iTunes, how smart folders work in Mail.app, and how Gmail labels work. Using tags to group projects is actually better than using folders because they are more flexible. We've all had the situation where a file could be placed in multiple folders and you have to decide between them. With tags, that no longer is a problem.
If you notice, adding and editing tags is becoming more and more prominent throughout the Mac's interface with every major update. It's iOS that has been lagging a bit in this area. My guess is iOS 9 is going to fully embrace it. Remember, iCloud Drive is new. But I am certain this is where it's headed.
Literally makes no sense. Easy would be making it exactly the same as a computer work. You open up "my documents" and see all your documents. On a computer you don't have to open up word to see all your .doc files or excel to see all your spreadsheets.
Plus on Yosemite, there IS a iCloud drive folder explorer. Why would they have one on Yosemite, and not on iOS. That just makes it more confusing.
Not to mention the fact that on Apple's website, they depict an app that can be used to explore all iCloud files.
https://www.apple.com/ios/whats-new/icloud-drive/
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Even if this was the case, is there an option to view all documents that I have tagged in red, on my phone? If not, then this is a moot point.
actually they dont. the "done" button in the top right corner suggests to me that they were using an app like pages to save or open some files.
There are all different file types in there, no? Wouldn't that suggest they aren't using an application (lets say pages) to view them? Plus, the layout of the files matches perfectly with the standalone folder on yosemite that is in the background in the picture.
Edit: Maybe not, the iPad depicts that it is being open from pages.
i really hope that this will point to an dedicated app that displays all file types (like dropbox) but as i know apples intentions... there will no such app...
edit: see :-/
It's just stupid. Even if they were trying to make it "easy" (which I still don't understand), would it really hurt to have a standalone app. I mean I'm pretty sure every other cloud storage service offers one.