Good idea though. As a penetration tester / ethical hacker this would be a great little addition to iPad. I’d love to be able to do more hacking using the iPad Pro M1 processor and a quality terminal app. There are some hacking tools like NET Toobox but a full terminal would be sweet.
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iPadOS 16 Tidbits: Drastically Improved Files App, System-Wide Undo/Redo, and More
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Reminds me of college, I owned a Mid 2007 MacBook and, after it came out, an OG iPad. I took a chemistry class my Freshman year with that MacBook, and note taking on it was truly a pain, if just because of all the chemical subscripts. The year after I got my iPad, I used it for note taking in a linear algebra class, handwritten notes with one of those touchscreen styluses. It made taking notes in my math class such a breeze. (Why didn’t I just use a paper notebook? Well, I type faster than I write, so it made sense to me as a muddle-headed freshman. As for the math class? Mostly because I didn’t want to carry a large notebook in my backpack, especially if it had only so much space for each subject. Plus, I was on crutches for two months, if I could reduce the weight in my backpack, I gladly would.) There are times and scenarios when I prefer paper and pen, but there are also times and scenarios when I prefer digital handwriting.
It kinda looks like the reason it says “top button” is because this article is specifically about iPadOS, where it still is a top button. Which also means that this would mostly be for FaceTime and VoIP calls, or calls using the Continuity feature. It seems like this feature might be permanently enabled on the iPhone but hasn’t been a thing on the iPad before this.
I suspect he or she means that you can mark the files that should always be available offline. Files will tend to remove the download of some files available in iCloud every now and then. It happens to me sometimes, but I just figured that that’s probably because I’m using a 64GB phone and I could use more storage.
This was a pretty large factor for me in choosing to go with the Logitech Combo Touch instead.
Does it stays downloaded or it will be deleted after some time or due to some storage space condition?
Does USB C even work that way? Just because you can connect two computers via it doesn’t necessarily mean you can load up a remote computer’s storage as a removable hard drive. (And oddly enough, some people seem to think you can do that with USB A. I went down the rabbit hole of so called suicide cables [unsafe electrical cables with prongs on both ends, which means that the prongs are electrically live on both ends] the other day and found USB A to USB A cables. As I expected, they mostly fry your computers’ motherboards.)
I believe it will stay downloaded until deleted manually.
That’s a huge QoL improvement! I recently finished a knitting project and had the pattern in Files. Never mind that I was probably pulling it up at least once a week, Files saw fit to offload it pretty frequently. Granted, I’m pretty low on space on my phone, but still.
*For you.
You forgot to put that in your first sentence. Because for me, there’s really zero reason to get a MacBook Air over an iPad Pro. There’s nothing a Mac can do that my iPad can’t for my own personal use.
I’m hoping the Recents view in Files is clear-able. I hate when someone can easily see my plans for world domination or my extensive Disney-character porn collection with a mere glance of my screen…
It didn't really let you download files locally before. You could star/favorite a folder and it would show up in the sidebar, but it never actually downloaded all the files, even though I have a 256GB iPhone with plenty of storage. Now you can long press and hit "Download Now."
Idk yet but seems like it'll stay on the device until it's removed.
Ah you're right. I read "call" and was thinking phone call and forgot this was iPad specific.
Still odd that they're naming the button by the side it's on as it feels like many people use iPad in landscape the much of the time. I kinda miss the button being on top on iPhone.
I think it’s already available for years now because it works for me. If you turn on ‘iMessage’ in your iCloud settings, any changes in the Message app will sync to all your devices including delete etc.
I feel, there are 3 kinds of people arguing about Ipad os 16.
1. People with normal day-to-day tasks. They are happy with the ipad os 16 stage center, external monitor support and revamp files app.
2. Real pro users. They need to wait for what developers are going to deliver in their app for so called pro users.
3. people who need to argue, argue only.
Like normal users, more than 70%. Contents writing, media consumption, some other task. I given up my M1 MBA for 256 IPP 11 and MKB based on the iPad OS 16 rumors. Till the announcement, I am happy with Ipad os 16.
Waiting for public beta to use.
1. People with normal day-to-day tasks. They are happy with the ipad os 16 stage center, external monitor support and revamp files app.
2. Real pro users. They need to wait for what developers are going to deliver in their app for so called pro users.
3. people who need to argue, argue only.
Like normal users, more than 70%. Contents writing, media consumption, some other task. I given up my M1 MBA for 256 IPP 11 and MKB based on the iPad OS 16 rumors. Till the announcement, I am happy with Ipad os 16.
Waiting for public beta to use.
What’s a ‘real pro user’? Look, there is one type of iPad user. It’s someone that can do their computing with an iPad. That’s that.
The rest of them can’t. Buy something else. That should be that… except… all the keyboard warriors airing their opinion about their own, normally extremely specific, use case - whilst dismissing everyone else’s evidence to the contrary.
I remember a few iOS ago Apple promised us a capability to “pin” an iCloud file in Files. A pinned file would be locally accessible (downloaded). I was quite excited about it because I have some documents I wanted to access all the time.
And then … crickets.
Macs have long supported Target Disk Mode (rebranded as Share Volume on M1 systems) which effectively allows you to connect one Mac to another via FireWire/Thunderbolt/USB-C and basically have it be treated like an external drive. The Mac being used as the drive is not usable while this is happening though. You cannot, however, just plug one Mac into another and have the volume instantly pop up.
Precisely! Well put.
The corollary (?), and inappropriately used, question being “what’s a ‘normal’ user” or “most users?” Those terms get bandied about here as if there is a well-established and detailed public profile of device users, which when in fact our understanding of usage is limited to ourselves and maybe our immediate regular contacts - nowhere near the tens (hundreds?) of millions of users and their situations.
To quote Michael Malice for the second time this week: “You’re not entitled to speak for ANYone else, much less EVERYone else.”