iPad Pro Offline usage

[daedalus3]

Hi all,

I'm seriously thinking about making the switch from my Air to iPad Pro as a laptop replacement. One thing that's not clear to me is how well it works offline.

I spend a decent amount of time on planes, sometimes without wifi. If I want to, say, edit a Word doc, a Keynote deck or Google Spreadsheet, how well would that work? Do I have to specify ahead of time which docs I want to save an offline copy of? Can I even do that?

Basically, I want to know how hard it'll be to access my stuff if I have to use the iPad without a connection.

Thanks!

 

[Cascades42]

I've never encountered a problem with iCloud documents, and assuming Word works in the same way (which I think it does, I just use it very infrequently), there should be no problem with that. With Google's docs/sheets/slides you do need to make documents available offline in advance.

A sensible pre-caution I've used since the days of the first iPad - I sync any and all important files in GoodReader, then should something have gone wrong I have them there and can open in. That said, it's been over a year since I needed that - and that time was because I saved something into Dropbox because "I don't need it anymore" only to need to access it whilst flying over China (no wifi available on the plane, even if I'd been willing to pay for it!).

 

[Night Spring]

I've never encountered a problem with iCloud documents,

Occasionally, I've opened an iWork app like Pages and found that the latest updates haven't synced. So what I do is open each iWorks app before moving out of wifi range to make sure they are synced.