Preview iOS app

[majurg]

Do you all think there will ever be a iOS version of Preview, with cloud drive access and the like?

That is the one app I wish iOS had. TextEdit too though I want Preview way more

 

[C DM]

Maybe, at some point down the line. Or maybe not.

 

[Fzang]

A real file manager may be the headliner for iOS sometime between version 10 and 15.

 

[Abazigal]

Do you all think there will ever be a iOS version of Preview, with cloud drive access and the like?



That is the one app I wish iOS had. TextEdit too though I want Preview way more

What's wrong with using a pdf viewer like pdf expert or good reader? A dedicated pdf viewer seems a tad redundant on iOS now that iBooks is preloaded on every iOS device.

 

[GreyOS]

A real file manager may be the headliner for iOS sometime between version 10 and 15.

There are already apps for file managing, what do you mean by real?

 

[Photography]

Knowing how unacceptably and pathetically slow Apple is to develop things that work well, it'll probably take them 5 years to build a preview app and an iCloud drive app.

 

[RoboWarriorSr]

Do you all think there will ever be a iOS version of Preview, with cloud drive access and the like?

That is the one app I wish iOS had. TextEdit too though I want Preview way more

I think iBook is the 'preview' of iOS. For iPhones, it wouldn't make too much sense to have a PDF editor but maybe for iPad users they might have a Preview app.

 

[GreyOS]

Do you all think there will ever be a iOS version of Preview, with cloud drive access and the like?

That is the one app I wish iOS had. TextEdit too though I want Preview way more

I'm not sure if you're asking specifically for an Apple made stock app (perhaps you prefer first party things?), but apps like this already exist. Try Documents 5 (Readdle) which can open files (PDF, office, videos, images etc.) from cloud/local storage providers including iCloud Drive.

 

[Fzang]

There are already apps for file managing, what do you mean by real?

But do they function like real file managers (e.g. "open with"), or do I have to send my file to a different app, thus copying it, and most often unable to send the modified version back to the file manager? Do I have to email myself the modified versions every time I want to change app, and then delete it from the previous app?

 

[Jessica Lares]

But do they function like real file managers (e.g. "open with"), or do I have to send my file to a different app, thus copying it, and most often unable to send the modified version back to the file manager? Do I have to email myself the modified versions every time I want to change app, and then delete it from the previous app?

GoodReader can open iCloud Drive documents without you having to import them. I'm not sure how hard that would be to do in other apps, but it's getting close to be possible. I'm sure they could make that work locally if there was a Finder app.

 

[GreyOS]

GoodReader can open iCloud Drive documents without you having to import them. I'm not sure how hard that would be to do in other apps, but it's getting close to be possible. I'm sure they could make that work locally if there was an Finder app.

Yeah, like you say, what Fzang wants is all theoretically possible but his/her specific apps and workflows may not make it possible right now.

Fzang, just a clarification, it's not so much an 'open with' that's now possible without file duplication, but an 'open from'. So in theory, apps that offer local storage, or apps linked to cloud storage, can declare that they do this. Then an app you use for editing can, in theory, 'open from' one of these storage provider apps, and then save back to it.

 

[iliasp]

Do you all think there will ever be a iOS version of Preview, with cloud drive access and the like?

That is the one app I wish iOS had. TextEdit too though I want Preview way more

In the iPad Pro era yes, now its not needed, things that are well executed natively don't need an app, never did in iOS

 

[sonicrobby]

What's wrong with using a pdf viewer like pdf expert or good reader? A dedicated pdf viewer seems a tad redundant on iOS now that iBooks is preloaded on every iOS device.

The only issue is that iBooks lacks cloud sync for PDFs. So they have preview which is icloud compatible for all pdfs, but no iOS app; and iBooks which is on most devices, but lacks pdf cloud sync. I'm very disappointed that they didn't add this support to iCloud Drive.