Here’s the next mess I unfortunately had to come across in iPadOS 26, and I was hoping someone may know a solution.
When I use iCloud Drive and click a PDF file, it will now open it in Preview. While I totally embrace Preview being introduced to iPadOS, I find it very annoying that you cannot easily go back from that open file to iCloud Drive. You would basically have to do something such as swiping up, closing the window, switching back to iCloud Drive, et cetera. Previously, you would simply pull down the PDF and that was it. That feature is still available when you press and hold a file in iCloud Drive, and then choose “overview” or something like that. But that takes significantly more time than the way it was before, especially if you have to search many files.
So basically, I’m stuck with multiple solutions that are all slower, less efficient, and need more effort than the way it’s been previously. It’s yet another take of iPadOS 26 making things less rational than they have been.
If it was the other way around (press and hold to have an option to open the file in Preview, and have the overview with a simple click) then that would have been a good solution for me.
Now it’s once more the worst of all worlds, and it makes you less productive and spend more time on redundant clicking and swiping - at no additional function. At scale, that’s a lot of energy, effort, and time lost.
Has someone figured out a way to change that? Or does Apple want us to continue paying for iCloud Drive+ while using less storage and bandwidth? I wouldn’t be surprised if that is Apple’s strategy. I mean, the profit has to come from somewhere, and profit always means that someone is paying for it - usually the client. 😂
