iOS 26: Apple's Preview App Rumored to Expand From Mac to iPhone

[svish]

Good to hear about this. Better editing capability of these documents on the iPhone will be very welcome.

 

[fatTribble]

I’m probably confused. How would this differ from the viewer in Files today for photos and pdfs?

 

[It’s always something]

I’m probably confused. How would this differ from the viewer in Files today for photos and pdfs?

It has been awhile since I used Preview (no Mac around here in a very long time) but I presume that it will provide more tools and previews for more file formats.

 

[danielagos]

No device should come without a simple PDF editor to add and edit text, add, remove and sort pages.

iOS has allowed to add/edit text annotations (cannot edit the text in the PDF, though) and add/remove/sort pages for a while now, not sure in which version it was introduced.

 

[Abazigal]

No device should come without a simple PDF editor to add and edit text, add, remove and sort pages.
But Apple loves that sweet cut of the subscription-based apps that offers absolutely nothing after the first download and that should clearly be one-time-payment $5 apps instead. Or freeware, if Apple didn't build the store to make it impossible not to lose money with freeware.
I hate how hard it is to even understand if a "free" app with IAP will do anything useful before I pay.

You can already do all that within the files app.

Heck, windows doesn’t appear to come with this sort of functionality out of the box (I have no ideas why off annotation is folded into Edge), and nobody seems to say anything about it.

 

[ProbablyDylan]

Heck, windows doesn’t appear to come with this sort of functionality out of the box (I have no ideas why off annotation is folded into Edge), and nobody seems to say anything about it.

Doesn't Windows come with Edge out of the box? Meaning it comes with that functionality?

 

[Abazigal]

Doesn't Windows come with Edge out of the box? Meaning it comes with that functionality?

On my windows laptop, there is the free version of adobe reader and edge. Reader lets me view pdfs in 2-page mode, but anything else more complicated requires a paid subscription of sorts apparently. To write on it, I first need to open the pdf in Edge, but then I lose the ability to view it in 2-page mode.

I have no idea why Microsoft is opting to hide this basic functionality inside its web browser app. Are they afraid of other companies complaining that they are costing them money by including bundling said features in Windows or something?

With Preview on macOS, it's all subsumed into one app, plus I can move pages around, delete pages, rotate them, lots of basic stuff I have come to take for granted. It's just a more refined experience all around, and an example of something Microsoft probably could, and should copy for its own OS.