FOR MANY YEARS, Apple
didn’t want anybody to
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management on iOS devices:
that was something you did 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 mediaNew features in Files
Proper file management is easy on your iPad with this update
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Messenger. And in iPadOS (plus iOS 13
on iPhone) the Files app has been given
some key new features.
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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
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USB drives, SD cards, SSDs, and hard
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so you can connect to devices such as
home networked storage devices.
Files also works a lot more like Finder
does on your Mac. You now have a
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from Safari and Mail, you can compress
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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 MARSHALLREQUIRES
An iOS device with iOS 13
or iPad with iPadOSYOU WILL LEARN
How to use the new
features in FilesIT WILL TAKE
10 minutesThe option to copy a link only appears for cloud
services such as Dropbox: it’s not yet available
for iCloud Drive.
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