Excellent overview of this much under-utilized feature of the Apple ecosystem! I have been an Apple convert since 2000 and have very rarely used the files app but now you have given me some ideas to ponder. Thanks for sharing!
I’m equally guilty of not fully seeing or understanding this “beautiful” operating system ❤ however quickly learning as I’ve just returned from a hiatus and have returned to get fully functioning inside the ecosystem ❤
As someone who uses an iPhone but a Windows desktop, I find the Files app incredibly frustrating. The problem is that, at their cores, Apple and Windows are completely different. Windows is file based, Apple is app based. Trying to manipulate files on an Apple device is nearly impossible because it just won’t let you. The only thing you can do is open a file with its associated app. Unless it’s a photo you can’t move, copy, modify, or do anything with a file.
As an all in Apple user I can’t feel your pain, however I have lots of google docs and windows supported files saved to both Google Drive & One drive. I have had no trouble transferring files back-and-forth. Perhaps this article from Apple might help you. support.apple.com/en-us/120402
*And this person's "answer" to Files is to utilize iCloud where Apple has their claws into it up to their ass --- THEY CAN SEE ANYTHING AND EVERYTHING IN iCloud --- A TOTAL LIE OF WHAT THEY TRY TO TELL US ABOUT BEING "SECURE" [ *WELL, IT'S SECURE **_FOR THEM_* ]. Notice the VERY FIRST THING SHE SAID: activate iCloud FOR EVERYTHING.* The ONLY answer to the asinine Files app is to find someone knowledgeable and willing to do some ASSEMBLY LANGUAGE fixing (permanently) of Files App so that the control goes back to the USER, NOT APPLE.
Thanks for your help. Can I do these basic things from my iPad? (My laptop crashed & hasn’t been replaced.) Also, do I need IOS 18?I didn’t have some of,the,options you showed. Maybe I’m just dense. 🙂 Just subbed!
@vivianhudacek1556 As long as every device is using same Apple ID it should sync across all… works with iOS 17 & 18, but options may be in slightly different places…
@@TekkyTutor I find it confusing on my iPhone and iPad. I have files and I can never find them or share them. Literally just this weekend I had a video that I wanted to share. So I had to find it in the files and then save it to my photo library and then save that to Google photos and then send a link (I was sharing with a non-iPhone person). But I also ran into an issue where I’ve downloaded stuff and I have no clue where it went, and I could never find it.
1. Make sure both devices are using same Apple ID 2. When you try to download a file pay attention to the name given - sometimes it’s random letters/numbers (take a screenshot) 3. Open files and search for that name 4. It’s definitely easier when you’re saving a file to put it in the folder that you intended to stay in rather than try and move it later I cover this in my video. Good luck.
@@JustXavierOFTEN! It is 100% unclear when a file which was saved by one device is visible by another one. All were under the same iphoneid, all were used withe latest ios/macos. Very frustrating. My solution (after waiting a few hours) is often copying via air. when I look for the file on the same device which I used to store it, it is always shown ok, right where it should be.
Syncing the Desktop & Documents Folders is impossible unless you have at least a 2 TB iCloud plan. A 200 GB iCloud plan is useless for this purpose, unless you only have 100-120 GB in files in your Desktop & Documents Folders. You need extra free space on iCloud for your Photos and other stuff that you store directly on iCloud.
Files also allows for other storage, such as Google Drive, OneDrive & Dropbox😊This may solve your issue with not wanting to pay for additional iCloud Storage- IMHO I’d rather have my stuff on iCloud than Google or Microsoft….
Very useful video - thank you. One question - Mac OS15 Sequoia and iPhone iOS 18.00. I can see my Desktop folder in Files app > Browse > iCloud Drive, but I can’t work out how to add Desktop to Favourites as you show it on screen. Any suggestions? Thanks.
I discuss at 4:10, but try this: To show your Finder tags in the Files app on an iPhone, you can: Open Files app Open a folder or location Touch and hold a file or folder Tap Tags Tap one or more tags Tap Done
No changes on windows… you won’t see “desktop’ but the rest should be ok-- You can log into icloud.com to access your files- and in the video I showed how to add Google drive/Onedrive/Dropbox to locations…
hmm,macos,ios,ok,but windows is much easy,i use iphone and ipad but for laptops i use windows ,it's much easy.,and it works with any software,...for me it's out of hand...thanks for video...
