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Placeholder for iOS 11 'Files' App Goes Live on App Store
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So much excitement over one word and a icon whose functionality or purpose is completely unknown.
ITS BAIT.
NOW EVERYONE WILL WATCH THE KEYNOTE EXCITED, AND NO FILE MANAGEMENT
NOW EVERYONE WILL WATCH THE KEYNOTE EXCITED, AND NO FILE MANAGEMENT
Could someone explain what the difference would be between this and iCloud Drive? I can drags files from my desktop into the drive folder and they show up on my iPhone almost straight away? Will this do something different?
I dont know, opening the app first and then picking the file seems backwards to me and do not even get me started on the whole copies of the same file among different apps mess.
I would very much welcome a file system where i can save a file in whatever folder, click on the file and then be asked what app i would like to open it with
Apple gave the iPad a little love in iOS 9, but as a whole, could do a better job of tailoring iOS for tablets.
Sure. But if you tap on a photo... how would the phone know if you want to open it in photos.app just to look at it...
...or to open it in SnapSeed to edit it?
Just out of interest: Why do so many think they desperately need the file system? Is there anything they cannot do right now without it?
Why do people always ask these silly questions? "I have no use for this, so why do other people need it?" Probably for the thousand reasons people have given over and over and over and over and over again I'm guessing.
I just think there's way too many white icons on iOS to be honest. Minor annoyance but it was kind of more even in iOS 7 but now with health, home, music (new icon) and now files it's just too much.
For people here really wanting a file manager/Finder app... how come no one mentioned Readdle's Documents App?!
It basically does exactly what all of you ask for and want... I've been using it for like 3-5 years or so.
I cannot believe how people are whining 'no file management boohooohoooo' but haven't found this in the process of looking for an alternative.
https://readdle.com/products/documents
It basically does exactly what all of you ask for and want... I've been using it for like 3-5 years or so.
I cannot believe how people are whining 'no file management boohooohoooo' but haven't found this in the process of looking for an alternative.
https://readdle.com/products/documents
I'm not sure you get what I mean. If Apple went to ARM for Macs then they'd probably use a beefed up X variant of what they use now in the iPad Pro's etc. Mac OS would need writing for ARM (Which I'm sure they have internally) and so would all of the support apps that come with Mac OS - they'd work on any 64-bit supported iOS device aside to the new line of macs, rather than be developed for them specifically.
Because people want OS integration, not an app. Really complex stuff, I know.
I use Good Reader, does what everyone moans about as well, it's fantastic! Files I want to transfer and store locally go there, cloud based files are split between Google Drive, Dropbox and iCloud.
I did start the question with "Just for interest", didn't I? I was genuinely interested. I have never said that I wouldn't need it, nor that I would have no use for it.
I understand that it's more convenient to have access to folders on the device which are available to all apps (+ maybe no waste of storage as apps would use the actual files rather than duplicates), but, apart from that, is there anything else?
It's existed on Android since Android was a thing. It makes things extremely convenient ... especially with the rising size of storage. Being able to use the iPhone as a portable storage device without needing the cloud would be immensely useful for a lot of reasons. If this also opens the possibility of not needing iTunes to transfer damn near everything to the phone, that would also be a nice perk. It will also open up the ability for developers to be more creative with their apps ... perhaps making them more macOS-like. There's many useful things that this can be used for. But nobody has any idea exactly what this is or what it's for. We'll know soon, I suppose.
Click on the file, in this case the photo > pop up with all installed apps that could handle it > pick the app ypu want to open it with > add another layer to make it the default setting
just like on mac
Sorry for assuming you were just parroting things I heard before instead of it being the actually genuine question that it was.
Good grief ... being able to set default apps like on Android would be a Godsend.
iCloud drive is not even remotely what people are wanting. Please don't confuse the two.
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Well, having a Steve J. photo as your Avatar is telling, maybe you prefer Apple to think for you... S. J. was clever in the sense that he always thought of ways to make his company indispensable for the user. You wanna save a bloody file? Use our cloud. Want to transfer it from your desktop pc to your iPad? Oh, you have to use iTunes software, "isn't it great, it works like magic, it is the world of file transfer in the palm of your hand"...
Irony aside, as many users - even Apple users - have understood by now, an expensive unit without a filesystem is and will remain a hipster toy. Those for whom a file system is too complicated bc they will mess up where to put what can go on using the cloud etc.
What you call "leading the way" is just what I call patronising. Telling the client what is good for him. YUCK!