iPad User Magazine - UK (2019-10)

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iCloudDrive.

Make use of the Files app’s

fantastic new features

Proper file managementis easyonyouriPadwith thisupdate

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10 minutes

YOUWILLLEARN

You’lllearnhowto

usethenewfeaturesin

Files

YOU’LLNEED

You’ll need iOS 13

For many years, Apple didn’t

want anybody to go anywhere

near file management on iOS

devices: that was something

you do on your Mac, not your simpler,

streamlined iOS device. That changed in iOS

11 with the introduction of the Files app, which

enabled you to access your iCloud Drive as

well as third party services such as Dropbox.

You can use it to play media files, view and

annotate documents and send files to apps

such as Mail and Messenger, and in iPadOS

(plus iOS 13 on iPhone) the Files app has been

given some key new features.

Files doesn’t look much different in

iPadOS, but it’s become considerably more

powerful. It had to, because iPadOS introduced

support for new kinds of storage: If you have a

USB to lightning adapter you can move files to

and from USB drives, SD cards, SSDs and hard

disks. iOS also supports SMB, file servers so

you can connect to devices such as home

networked storage devices.

Handy locations

Files also works a lot more like Finder does on

your Mac. You now have a Downloads folder

where you’ll find stuff from Safari and Mail,

you can compress files and unzip them, and

you can create your own folders. You can even

scan documents directly into the Files app.

One thing that hasn’t made it to Files just

yet is iCloud Drive sharing. That’s expected

very soon. You can easily share links from

Dropbox and other cloud storage services that

you link within the Files app, though.

Carrie Marshall

Geniustip!

Files enables you to

download files from the

cloud. It’s wise to do

that for anything

important if you can’t

guarantee a good

connection later.

APPLE APPS The new Files app